‘This year’s vaccine is only 10% effective’: a study of public discourse on vaccine effectiveness in Hong Kong

Yeung, Matthew W. L.; Yau, Alice

doi:10.1080/17538068.2020.1809316

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“…An examination of the concordance lines of most and effective in CD finds that they are used to highlight vaccines as the most effective tool or measures to control the spread of the pandemic in the world. This can also be seen from two other strong collocates of effective in CD, i.e., measures (16) and tool (7). This further confirms that CD prefers to take a globalist approach in its representations of COVID-19 vaccines.…”

Section: Analysis Of the Efficacy Of Covid-19 Vaccinesmentioning

confidence: 78%

“…• CD: proved (15), proven (8), keep (7), feel (5), shown (7), proves (3), found (6), ensure (7) • NYT: keep (70), proved (27), shown (27), deemed (16), proves (12), keeping (17), feel (23), prove (15), proven (11), ensure (…”

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confidence: 99%

“…• NYT: highly (144), less (134), more (66), most (65), very (22), powerfully (16), extremely (14), remarkably (12), particularly (7), robustly (6), equally (5), extraordinarily (5), fully (5), moderately (…”

Section: Analysis Of the Efficacy Of Covid-19 Vaccinesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…(NYT, 23/08/2020) An examination of the concordance lines of highly and effective in NYT finds that they are used primarily to highlight the high efficacy rate of those vaccines made in the US and Britain. This can also be seen from its preference for other intensifying adverbs for effective, such as very (22), powerfully (16), extremely (14), remarkably (12), particularly (7), robustly (6), equally (5), extraordinarily (5), fully (5), stunningly (4), always (3), strikingly (3). Examples are as follows: Although NYT also foregrounds less in its representations of COVID-19 vaccines.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A recent study on the effects of media frames on COVID-19 vaccine resistance also verified that those who received information about the safety/efficacy of the vaccine were more likely to take the vaccine [13]. Although some studies examined media representations of vaccine safety and efficacy in the US [14], Australia [15], and Hong Kong [16], few studies gave a comparative study of the representations of the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines in different socio-political contexts to explicate the dynamic relations between COVID-19 vaccines, media and politics. This is a pity, considering the large number of studies on media representations of COVID-19 in different socio-political contexts [17][18][19][20].…”

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Vaccines, media and politics: A corpus-assisted discourse study of press representations of the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines

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This study gives a corpus-assisted discourse study of the representations of the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines in three representative newspapers from the US, Hong Kong, and the Chinese mainland: New York Times (NYT), South China Morning Post (SCMP), and China Daily (CD). The primary purpose is to explicate the dynamics between vaccines, media, and politics. Combining the theories and methods of critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics, this study has revealed their preferential ways of constructing the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines at different levels of discourse. The safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines thus serve as an important ideological battlefield for newspapers from different origins to advance their respective national or regional interests and shape understanding of different COVID-19 vaccines in the international arena.

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A taxonomy of anti-vaccination arguments from a systematic literature review and text modelling

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The proliferation of anti-vaccination arguments is a threat to the success of many immunisation programmes. Effective rebuttal of contrarian arguments requires an approach that goes beyond addressing flaws in the arguments, by also considering the attitude roots-that is, the underlying psychological attributes driving a person's belief-of opposition to vaccines. Through a preregistered systematic literature review of 152 scientific articles and thematic analysis of anti-vaccination arguments, we developed a hierarchical taxonomy that relates common arguments and themes to 11 attitude roots that explain why an individual might express opposition to vaccination. We further validated our taxonomy on COVID-19 anti-vaccination misinformation, through a combination of human coding and machine learning using natural language processing algorithms. Overall, the taxonomy serves as a theoretical framework to link expressed opposition of vaccines to their underlying psychological processes. This enables future work to develop targeted rebuttals and other interventions that address the underlying motives of anti-vaccination arguments.

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Tracking the Influence of Misinformation on Elderly People’s Perceptions and Intention to Accept COVID-19 Vaccines

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‘This year’s vaccine is only 10% effective’: a study of public discourse on vaccine effectiveness in Hong Kong

Cited by 6 publications

References 47 publications

Vaccines, media and politics: A corpus-assisted discourse study of press representations of the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines

Vaccines, media and politics: A corpus-assisted discourse study of press representations of the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines

A taxonomy of anti-vaccination arguments from a systematic literature review and text modelling

Tracking the Influence of Misinformation on Elderly People’s Perceptions and Intention to Accept COVID-19 Vaccines

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