The shifting landscape of vaccine discourse: Insights from a decade of pre- to post-COVID-19 vaccine posts on social media
Nikesh Gyawali, Doina Caragea, Cornelia Caragea, Saif M. Mohammad, Carlos Carrasco-Farré, Carlos Carrasco-Farré, Carlos Carrasco-Farré · 2025
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Nikesh Gyawali and three co-authors present a 2025 study of how vaccine talk on social media changed across a decade. The team collected English posts about vaccines from a major platform, spanning seven calm years and the three pandemic years. Public feeling toward vaccines seemed to harden in that window, but the narrative shift needed measuring.
Their data set curates 18.7 million posts from an initial 129 million, spanning 2013 to 2022. Drawing on a psychology model of how groups judge warmth and competence, they coded how speakers portray vaccines and the people tied to them. The analysis traces which story lines rose after COVID-19 arrived and which faded.
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| CREATOR | Nikesh Gyawali, Doina Caragea, Cornelia Caragea, Saif M. Mohammad, Carlos Carrasco-Farré, Carlos Carrasco-Farré, Carlos Carrasco-Farré |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 94 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |