Studying attitudes towards vaccine hesitance and California law SB 277 in online discourse: A dataset and methodology.

Anti-vaccination movement California SB 277 Digital methodology Digital snowball sampling Online discourse Semantic network analysis Vaccine hesitance Vaccine policy

Journal

Data in brief
ISSN: 2352-3409
Titre abrégé: Data Brief
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 101654995

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Apr 2021
Historique:
received: 09 09 2020
revised: 01 02 2021
accepted: 02 02 2021
entrez: 22 3 2021
pubmed: 23 3 2021
medline: 23 3 2021
Statut: epublish

Résumé

This article presents data that are further analyzed and interpreted in "Shouting at Each Other into the Void: A Semantic Network Analysis of Vaccine Hesitance and Support in Online Discourse Regarding California Law SB277" [1]. This research modified snowball sampling, a technique usually used to generate chains of informants that illuminate the structure of social networks, to collect digital documents following a chain of web links and recommendations, thus illuminating the underlying social, technical, and linguistic structure of online discourse. The resulting documents were manually coded according to the attitude towards vaccines they represented and/or the position they took with regard to California Senate Bill 277, a vaccine mandate policy that banned all nonmedical exemptions from school immunization requirements. Each attitude category, as well as the dataset as a whole, was subjected to quantitative linguistic analysis to identify key words and phrases in the data according to the frequency with which they appeared. A combination of that technique and semantic network analysis were used to generate clusters of related words that could be used for qualitative and narrative analysis, as detailed in the companion paper. The data collection and analysis processes described here will be of use to researchers conducting mixed-method analysis of online discourse who want their data to reflect the potential information and digital resources available to individuals who attempt to inform themselves about a particular topic using Internet searches. The data presented here could be useful for anyone seeking deeper insight into the linguistic and narrative patterns surrounding online debates about vaccination, controversial government policies, or both.

Identifiants

DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2021.106841 PMID: 33748356 PMC: PMC7966830
pubmed: 33748356
doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2021.106841
pii: S2352-3409(21)00125-6
pmc: PMC7966830
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

106841

Subventions

Organisme : NCATS NIH HHS
ID : UL1 TR001863
Pays : United States

Informations de copyright

© 2021 Published by Elsevier Inc.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Nicola P. Klein has received research support from GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Merck, Sanofi Pasteur and Protein Science (now Sanofi Pasteur).

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Auteurs

Kali DeDominicis (K)

Department of Anthropology, Sociology, and Criminal Justice, Arcadia University, 450 Easton Rd., Glenside, PA 19038, United States.

Alison M Buttenheim (AM)

Department of Family and Community Health, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Claire M. Fagin Hall, 418 Curie Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States.

Amanda C Howa (AC)

Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, 201 Dowman Drive, Atlanta 30322, Georgia.

Paul L Delamater (PL)

Department of Geography and Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 123 Franklin St., Room 2152, Chapel Hill, NC 27516, United States.

Daniel Salmon (D)

Department of International Health and Health Behavior and Society, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Institute for Vaccine Safety, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, 615N. Wolfe St., Room W5035, Baltimore, MA 21205, United States.

Nicola P Klein (NP)

Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center, 2000 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94612, United States.

Saad B Omer (SB)

Yale Institute for Global Health, Associate Dean (Global Health Research), Yale School of Medicine, Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases), Yale School of Medicine, Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, 1 Church St., New Haven, CT 06510, United States.

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