Vaccine hesitancy and Web 2.0: Exploring how attitudes and beliefs about influenza vaccination are exchanged in online threaded user comments

•The CBC forum provides a space for users to reinforce their pre-existing beliefs.•Rhetorical devices and tactics noted in user exchanges reinforces existing polarization.•Public health engagement may further reduce rejecter's intention to vaccinate. The growth of Web 2.0 has been particularly...

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Published in:	Vaccine Vol. 37; no. 13; pp. 1769 - 1774
Main Authors:	Meyer, Samantha B., Violette, Richard, Aggarwal, Reenika, Simeoni, Michelle, MacDougall, Heather, Waite, Nancy
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Netherlands Elsevier Ltd 22.03.2019 Elsevier Limited
Subjects:	Aluminum Attitudes attitudes and opinions Data mining Data processing Decision making Health communication Immunoglobulins Influenza influenza vaccination Influenza vaccine influenza vaccines Internet Knowledge News Participation Public health Scraping software Social networks Tactics Vaccination Vaccine hesitancy Vaccines Web 2.0 Websites Scraping software Web 2.0 Vaccine hesitancy Influenza vaccine Health communication
ISSN:	0264-410X, 1873-2518, 1873-2518
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