The vaccination debate in the "post-truth" era: social media as sites of multi-layered reflexivity
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F19%3A10398803" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/19:10398803 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=2m4SPmbCPU" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=2m4SPmbCPU</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12873" target="_blank" >10.1111/1467-9566.12873</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The vaccination debate in the "post-truth" era: social media as sites of multi-layered reflexivity
Original language description
This paper analyses the contemporary public debate about vaccination, and medical knowledge more broadly, in the context of social media. The study is focused on the massive online debate prompted by the Facebook status of the digital celebrity Mark Zuckerberg, who posted a picture of his two-month-old daughter, accompanied by a comment: 'Doctor's visit - time for vaccines!' Carrying out a qualitative analysis on a sample of 650 comments and replies, selected through systematic random sampling from an initial pool of over 10,000 user contributions, and utilising open and axial coding, we empirically inform the theoretical discussion around the concept of the reflexive patient and introduce the notion of multi-layered reflexivity. We argue that the reflexive debate surrounding this primarily medical problem is influenced by both biomedical and social scientific knowledge. Lay actors therefore discuss not only vaccination, but also its political and economic aspects as well as the post-truth information context of the debate. We stress that the reflexivity of social actors related to the post-truth era re-enters and influences the debate more than ever. Furthermore, we suggest that the interconnection of different layers of reflexivity can either reinforce certainty or deepen the ambiguity and uncertainty of reflexive agents.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50401 - Sociology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA17-01116S" target="_blank" >GA17-01116S: Civic engagement and the politics of health care</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Sociology of Health and Illness
ISSN
0141-9889
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
41
Issue of the periodical within the volume
Supplement 1
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
82-97
UT code for WoS article
000489792800006
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85073106724