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COVID-19 Vaccination Strategy in Global: Communication, Media and Misinformation
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COVID-19 Vaccination Strategy in Global: Communication, Media and Misinformation

A special issue of Vaccines (ISSN 2076-393X). This special issue belongs to the section "Human Vaccines and Public Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2024) | Viewed by 5255

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Andreu Casero-Ripollés

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Journalism and Political Communication, Universitat Jaume, Castelló de la Plana, Spain
Interests: vaccination; COVID-19; public health

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Communication has played a fundamental role in COVID-19 vaccination, with news media especially being critically involved in the social perception of vaccines throughout the creation of narratives and frames aiming to shape public opinion. In addition, social media has allowed the circulation of all kinds of content about vaccination, from humorous messages and positive calls to support the immunization process to the dissemination of fake news and conspiracy theories. Additionally, anti-vaccine groups have acted through digital platforms to spread vaccine hesitancy, refusal and boycotting. In turn, governments and international organizations have used communication networks to create campaigns and circulate strategies to promote vaccination of the population, which has been shown to be the most efficient way to control and combat the pandemic. In all these cases, communication plays an important and prominent role. However, this field remains understudied, with multiple gaps existing in the related literature. New knowledge is needed about the position and incidence of communication in relation to vaccination to improve our ability to face the health crises to come. Therefore, this Special Issue aims to gather together high-quality research that empirically analyzes the links between COVID-19 vaccines and communication. Our hope is that this Special Issue will bring new insights and evidence related to this crucial topic. 

Potential topics for submission include, but are not limited to:

  • Influence of legacy media and social media on COVID-19 vaccination;
  • Journalistic coverage of the coronavirus vaccination process: issues and frames;
  • Agenda setting and vaccination;
  • Journalists' attitudes towards coronavirus vaccination;
  • Representations of the COVID-19 vaccination process on digital platforms: images, memes and humor;
  • Misinformation and fake news on COVID-19 vaccination: content and incidence;
  • Conspiracy theories and perception of COVID-19 vaccination in social media;
  • Communication campaigns of anti-vaccine groups in the context of the coronavirus;
  • Government communication strategies and campaigns for COVID-19 vaccination;
  • Strategies to combat misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine promoted by governments and international organizations;
  • Media literacy strategies and COVID-19 vaccination;
  • The role of influencers and opinion leaders in coronavirus vaccination;
  • Creation of public opinion through communication about the vaccination process;
  • Social media discussions about COVID-19 vaccination: contents, sentiment analysis and influences;
  • Social perceptions about the role of legacy media and social media in COVID-19 vaccination.

Prof. Dr. Andreu Casero-Ripollés
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Vaccines is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • communication
  • journalism
  • social media
  • news media
  • digital media
  • vaccination
  • COVID-19
  • government communication
  • strategic communication
  • public opinion
  • influencers
  • misinformation

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Sentiment Analysis toward the COVID-19 Vaccine in the Main Latin American Media on Twitter: The Cases of Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru
by Alba Córdoba-Cabús, Manuel García-Borrego and Yaiza Ceballos
Vaccines 2023, 11(10), 1592; https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines11101592 - 14 Oct 2023
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This article analyzes the media coverage of the COVID-19 vaccine by major media outlets in five Latin American countries: Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, and Peru. For this purpose, the XLM-roBERTa model was applied and the sentiments of all tweets published between January 2020 [...] Read more.
This article analyzes the media coverage of the COVID-19 vaccine by major media outlets in five Latin American countries: Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, and Peru. For this purpose, the XLM-roBERTa model was applied and the sentiments of all tweets published between January 2020 and June 2023 (n = 24,243) by the five outlets with the greatest online reach in each country were analyzed. The results show that the sentiment in the overall media and in each nation studied was mostly negative, and only at the beginning of the pandemic was there some positivity. In recent months, negative sentiment has increased twelvefold over positive sentiment, and has also garnered many more interactions than positive sentiment. The differences by platform and country are minimal, but there are markedly negative media, some more inclined to neutrality, and only one where positive sentiment predominates. This paper questions the role of journalism in Latin America during a health crisis as serious as that of the coronavirus, in which, instead of the expected neutrality, or even a certain message of hope, the media seem to have been dragged along by the negativity promoted by certain discourses far removed from scientific evidence. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue COVID-19 Vaccination Strategy in Global: Communication, Media and Misinformation)
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Misinformation about the COVID-19 Vaccine in Online Catholic Media
by Verónica Israel-Turim, Valentina Laferrara, Ana Regina Rego and Josep Lluís Micó-Sanz
Vaccines 2023, 11(6), 1054; https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines11061054 - 1 Jun 2023
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, online media were the most widely used sources of scientific information. Often, they are also the only ones on science-related topics. Research has shown that much of the information available on the Internet about the health crisis lacked scientific [...] Read more.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, online media were the most widely used sources of scientific information. Often, they are also the only ones on science-related topics. Research has shown that much of the information available on the Internet about the health crisis lacked scientific rigor, and that misinformation about health issues can pose a threat to public health. In turn, millions of Catholics were found to be demonstrating against vaccination against COVID-19 based on “false” and misleading religious arguments. This research analyses publications about the vaccine in Catholic online media with the aim of understanding the presence of information (and misinformation) in this community. An algorithm designed for each media outlet collected COVID-19 vaccine-related publications from 109 Catholic media outlets in five languages. In total, 970 publications were analysed for journalistic genres, types of headlines and sources of information. The results show that most publications are informative and most of their headlines are neutral. However, opinion articles have mostly negative headlines. Furthermore, a higher percentage of the opinion authors come from the religious sphere and most of the sources cited are religious. Finally, 35% of the publications relate the vaccine to the framing issue of abortion. Full article
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EU Member States’ Institutional Twitter Campaigns on COVID-19 Vaccination: Analyses of Germany, Spain, France and Italy
by Jorge Tuñón Navarro and Emma Oporto Santofimia
Vaccines 2023, 11(3), 619; https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines11030619 - 9 Mar 2023
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The development of an effective vaccine against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus became the hope for halting the spread of the disease. In recent years, social networks have become important tools for political and strategic communication in the dialogue with citizens. Therefore, the messages emitted [...] Read more.
The development of an effective vaccine against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus became the hope for halting the spread of the disease. In recent years, social networks have become important tools for political and strategic communication in the dialogue with citizens. Therefore, the messages emitted through them were important to address vaccine hesitancy and achieve collective immunity. This paper analyses the use of Twitter by politicians and institutions in EU Member States during the first fifty days after the Commission’s marketing authorisation of the first COVID-19 vaccine (21 December 2020 to 8 February 2021). To do so, a triple approach content analysis was carried out (quantitative, qualitative and discursive on feelings) applied to 1913 tweets published by the official profiles of the prime ministers, health ministers, governments and health ministries of Germany, Spain, France and Italy, the four most populous EU countries. The results point out that politicians and institutions gave preference to other issues on their political agenda over vaccine-related issues. Moreover, previous research hypotheses, such as those related to the underutilization of the Twitter tool as a two-way communication channel with citizens, are validated. Full article
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