Polarization of the vaccination debate on Facebook

Vaccine

Volumn 36, Issue 25, 2018, Pages 3606-3612

  Schmidt, Ana Lucía ^a   Zollo, Fabiana ^a   Scala, Antonio ^b   Betsch, Cornelia ^c   Quattrociocchi, Walter ^a  

^a CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERFURT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anti vaccine sentiment; Computational social science; Misinformation; Network analysis; Social media

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; FACEBOOK; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL NETWORK; STANDARDIZATION; VACCINATION; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL CONTROL; SOCIAL MEDIA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VACCINATION REFUSAL;

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; PREJUDICE; SOCIAL CONTROL POLICIES; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORKING; VACCINATION; VACCINATION REFUSAL;

EID: 85047074604     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: 18732518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2018.05.040     Document Type: Article

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