Anti-vaccine activists, Web 2.0, and the postmodern paradigm - An overview of tactics and tropes used online by the anti-vaccination movement

Vaccine

Volumn 30, Issue 25, 2012, Pages 3778-3789

  Kata, Anna ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anti vaccination; Health communication; Internet; Postmodernism; Vaccines; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE; WART VIRUS VACCINE;

ARTICLE; AUTHORITY; AUTISM; CENSORSHIP; COMPREHENSION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DRUG INDUSTRY; DRUG LEGISLATION; DRUG SAFETY; FREEDOM; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERNET; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PARENTAL ATTITUDE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL NETWORK; VACCINATION; VIDEORECORDING;

COMMUNICATION; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH COMMUNICATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; SOCIAL MEDIA; VACCINATION; VACCINES;

EID: 84861006887     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: 18732518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2011.11.112     Document Type: Article

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