A Resistant Strain: Revealing the Online Grassroots Rise of the Antivaccination Movement

An analysis of more than eight years of data from vaccination forums on mothering.com shows that the antivaccination movement is well-organized and widely dispersed, and that it emerged long before concerns about immunity were expressed. The findings are evidence of a formidable challenge to the soc...

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Published in:Computer (Long Beach, Calif.) Calif.), 2017-11, Vol.50 (11), p.60-67
Main Authors: Bandari, Roja, Zicong Zhou, Hai Qian, Tangherlini, Timothy R., Roychowdhury, Vwani P.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
antivaccination movement
artificial intelligence
Blogs
computers and society
computing methodologies
Diseases
Government
Grass roots movement
healthcare
herd immunity
human safety
Immunity
Immunization
Instruction sets
machine learning
mothering.com
natural language processing
Norms
Pediatrics
public policy issues
social media
Social network services
vaccination
Vaccines
web text analysis
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Summary:An analysis of more than eight years of data from vaccination forums on mothering.com shows that the antivaccination movement is well-organized and widely dispersed, and that it emerged long before concerns about immunity were expressed. The findings are evidence of a formidable challenge to the social norms surrounding vaccination.
ISSN:0018-9162
1558-0814
DOI:10.1109/MC.2017.4041354