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

Kód výsledku v 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>

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

50401 - Sociology

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/LX22NPO5101" target="_blank" >LX22NPO5101: Národní institut pro výzkum socioekonomických dopadů nemocí a systémových rizik</a><br>

Návaznosti

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

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Social Science and Medicine

ISSN

0277-9536

e-ISSN

1873-5347

Svazek periodika

346

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

April 2024

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

14

Strana od-do

116725

Kód UT WoS článku

001208249100001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85186607444