Science and Politics in the Polio Vaccination Debate on Facebook: A Mixed-Methods Approach to Public Engagement in a Science-Based Dialogue
This study examines the ways in which the public discusses and debates the scientific issue of vaccinations in the online social media environment of Facebook. We apply a mixed-methods approach, where a qualitative analysis is combined with a quantitative analysis of the characteristics of the debat...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2018-03-01
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Series: | Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education |
Online Access: | https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jmbe.v19i1.1500 |