Agency in urgency and uncertainty. Vaccines and vaccination in European media discourses

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F24%3A10477568" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/24:10477568 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=cjnsVlotR6" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=cjnsVlotR6</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116725" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116725</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Agency in urgency and uncertainty. Vaccines and vaccination in European media discourses

Original language description

Although Covid-19 was not the first pandemic, it was unique in the scale and intensity with which societies responded. Countries reacted differently to the threat posed by the new virus. The public health crisis affected European societies in many ways. It also influenced the way the media portrayed vaccines and discussed factors related to vaccine hesitancy. Europeans differed in their risk perceptions, attitudes towards vaccines and vaccine uptake. In European countries, Covid-19-related discourses were at the centre of media attention for many months. This paper reports on a media analysis which revealed significant differences as well as some similarities in the media debates in different countries. The study focused on seven European countries and considered two dimensions of comparison: between the pre-Covid period and the beginning of the Covid pandemic period, and between countries. The rich methodological approach, including linguistics, semantic field analysis and discourse analysis of mainstream news media, allowed the authors to explore the set of meanings related to vaccination that might influence actors&apos; agency. This approach led the authors to redefine vaccine hesitancy in terms of characteristics of the &quot;society in the situation&quot; rather than the psychological profile of individuals. We argue that vaccine hesitancy can be understood in terms of agency and temporality. It is a dilemma of choice that transforms the present into an irreversible past and must be taken in relation to an uncertain future. As such, it is linked to how vaccine meaning is co-produced within public discourses.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - 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

Project

<a href="/en/project/LX22NPO5101" target="_blank" >LX22NPO5101: The National Institute for Research on the Socioeconomic Impact of Diseases and Systemic Risks</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Social Science and Medicine

ISSN

0277-9536

e-ISSN

1873-5347

Volume of the periodical

346

Issue of the periodical within the volume

April 2024

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

116725

UT code for WoS article

001208249100001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85186607444