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The understanding of the public response to COVID-19 vaccines is the key success factor to control the COVID-19 pandemic. To understand the public response, there is a need to explore public opinion. Traditional surveys are expensive and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Amir Karami , Michael Zhu , Bailey Goldschmidt , Hannah R. Boyajieff , Mahdi M. Najafabadi

To design effective vaccine policies, policymakers need detailed data about who has been vaccinated, who is holding out, and why. However, existing data in the US are insufficient: reported vaccination rates are often delayed or missing,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Serina Chang , Adam Fourney , Eric Horvitz

Objective: The aims of the study were to examine the association between social media sentiments surrounding COVID-19 vaccination and the effects on vaccination rates in the United States (US), as well as other contributing factors to the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Ana Aleksandric , Mercy Jesuloluwa Obasanya , Sarah Melcher , Shirin Nilizadeh , Gabriela Mustata Wilson

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccines have been an important topic in public discourse. The discussions around vaccines are polarized as some see them as an important measure to end the pandemic, and others are hesitant or find…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Gabriel Lindelöf , Talayeh Aledavood , Barbara Keller

To address the vaccine hesitancy which impairs the efforts of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign, it is imperative to understand public vaccination attitudes and timely grasp their changes. In spite of reliability and trustworthiness,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Ninghan Chen , Xihui Chen , Zhiqiang Zhong , Jun Pang

Effective public health messaging benefits from understanding antecedents to unstable attitudes that are more likely to be influenced. This work investigates the relationship between moral and emotional bases for attitudes towards COVID-19…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Samantha C. Phillips , Lynnette Hui Xian Ng , Wenqi Zhou , Kathleen M. Carley

Background Advances in machine learning (ML) models have increased the capability of researchers to detect vaccine hesitancy in social media using Natural Language Processing (NLP). A considerable volume of research has identified the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Lorena G Barberia , Belinda Lombard , Norton Trevisan Roman , Tatiane C. M. Sousa

With a country-wide comprehensive internet survey conducted in India, we aim to determine the factors that drive hesitancy towards getting vaccinated for COVID-19, and also compare their levels of influence. The perceived reliability and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-12-22 Shagata Mukherjee , Sayantari Ghosh , Saumik Bhattacharya , Sujoy Chakravarty

From the moment the first COVID-19 vaccines are rolled out, there will need to be a large fraction of the global population ready in line. It is therefore crucial to start managing the growing global hesitancy to any such COVID-19 vaccine.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-09-18 N. F. Johnson , N. Velasquez , R. Leahy , N. Johnson Restrepo , O. Jha , Y. Lupu

Psychological, political, cultural, and even societal factors are entangled in the reasoning and decision-making process towards vaccination, rendering vaccine hesitancy a complex issue. Here, administering a series of surveys via a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Kyriaki Kalimeri , Mariano Beiro , Alessandra Urbinati , Andrea Bonanomi , Alessandro Rosino , Ciro Cattuto

False claims about COVID-19 vaccines can undermine public trust in ongoing vaccination campaigns, thus posing a threat to global public health. Misinformation originating from various sources has been spreading online since the beginning of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Goran Muric , Yusong Wu , Emilio Ferrara

Anti-vaccine sentiments have been well-known and reported throughout the history of viral outbreaks and vaccination programmes. The COVID-19 pandemic had fear and uncertainty about vaccines which has been well expressed on social media…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Rohitash Chandra , Jayesh Sonawane , Janhavi Lande , Cathy Yu

Societies worldwide have witnessed growing rifts separating advocates and opponents of vaccinations and other COVID-19 countermeasures. With the rollout of vaccination campaigns, German-speaking regions exhibited much lower vaccination…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Katarina Boland , Christopher Starke , Felix Bensmann , Frank Marcinkowski , Stefan Dietze

Although billions of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered, too many people remain hesitant. Misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccines, propagating on social media, is believed to drive hesitancy towards vaccination. However, exposure…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Maxwell Weinzierl , Sanda Harabagiu

Vaccine hesitancy has been recognized as a major global health threat. Having access to any type of information in social media has been suggested as a potential powerful influence factor to hesitancy. Recent studies in other fields than…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Ana Lucia Schmidt , Fabiana Zollo , Antonio Scala , Cornelia Betsch , Walter Quattrociocchi

YouTube has rapidly emerged as a predominant platform for content consumption, effectively displacing conventional media such as television and news outlets. A part of the enormous video stream uploaded to this platform includes…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Yelena Mejova , Michele Tizzani

It has been one year since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The good news is that vaccines developed by several manufacturers are being actively distributed worldwide. However, as more and more vaccines become available to the public,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Wei Wu , Hanjia Lyu , Jiebo Luo

The COVID-19 pandemic fueled one of the most rapid vaccine developments in history. However, misinformation spread through online social media often leads to negative vaccine sentiment and hesitancy. To investigate COVID-19 vaccine-related…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Chad A Melton , Olufunto A Olusanya , Nariman Ammar , Arash Shaban-Nejad

In this paper, we look at a database of tweets sorted by various keywords that could indicate the users sentiment towards covid vaccines. With social media becoming such a prevalent source of opinion, sorting and ranking tweets that hold…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Wenbo Zhu , Tiechuan Hu

Vaccine concerns are an ever-evolving target, and can shift quickly as seen during the COVID-19 pandemic. Identifying longitudinal trends in vaccine concerns and misinformation might inform the healthcare space by helping public health…

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