Sensemaking in a Networked World
Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Turkey
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21633458 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gamze Yılmaz (0000-0001-5252-4699, University of Massachusetts Boston, corresponding author), Mehmet Bilen (0000-0003-1225-860X, Department of Computer Engineering, Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Burdur, Turkey) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 73 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 347-363 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Communication Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1051-0974 • E-ISSN: 1745-1035 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10510974.2022.2097285 |
| OpenAlex | W4284677975 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 35 |
This study aims to understand the collective sensemaking efforts and emotional reactions to the COVID-19 vaccine in Turkey between January 13, and January 22, 2021, as this time frame captured the initial days of vaccine rollouts and was characterized by high information ambiguity regarding COVID-19 vaccinations in Turkey. 45,759 tweets (written in Turkish) related to COVID-19 vaccine were analyzed. To analyze the tweet corpus, we used Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modeling with a total of 30 topics based on the coherence scores, which were grouped into 6 distinct themes. The findings showed that Twitter users in Turkey made sense of the initial uncertainty regarding vaccinations by 1) discussing their vaccine hesitancy and rejection, 2) critiquing vaccine availability and priority groups, 3) critiquing the politicians getting vaccinated under the disguise of “incentivizing” the society 4) mocking photo sharing during vaccinations, 5) sharing unverified information about vaccination status and side effects 6) telling jokes about the vaccinations and vaccine side effects. Additionally, the sentiment analysis showed that the dominant emotions around the COVID-19 vaccine were negative. Theoretical implications are advanced for collective sensemaking framework, and practical implications are outlined to improve global communication efforts to eradicate vaccine hesitancy
Family medicine · Linguistics · Political science · Public relations · Sensemaking · Turkish · Vaccination · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Medicine · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Psychology · Social Psychology · Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy · Virology
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |