The multilingual Twitter-discourse on vaccination in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic
There is evidence that specific segments of the population were hit particularly hard by the Covid-19 pandemic (e.g., people with a migration background). In this context, the impact and role played by online platforms in facilitating the integration or fragmentation of public debates and social gro...
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| author | Hannah Schmid-Petri Moritz Bürger Stephan Schlögl Mara Schwind Jelena Mitrović Ramona Kühn |
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| description | There is evidence that specific segments of the population were hit particularly hard by the Covid-19 pandemic (e.g., people with a migration background). In this context, the impact and role played by online platforms in facilitating the integration or fragmentation of public debates and social groups is a recurring topic of discussion. This is where our study ties in, we ask: How is the topic of vaccination discussed and evaluated in different language communities in Germany on Twitter during the Covid-19 pandemic? We collected all tweets in German, Russian, Turkish, and Polish (i.e., the largest migrant groups in Germany) in March 2021 that included the most important keywords related to Covid-19 vaccination. All users were automatically geocoded. The data was limited to tweets from Germany. Our results show that the multilingual debate on Covid-19 vaccination in Germany does not have many structural connections. However, in terms of actors, arguments, and positions towards Covid-19 vaccination, the discussion in the different language communities is similar. This indicates that there is a parallelism of the debates but no social-discursive integration. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-675e204d437b4943baa36a134a9fbce52023-03-27T11:43:52ZengCogitatioMedia and Communication2183-24392023-03-0111129330510.17645/mac.v11i1.60582967The multilingual Twitter-discourse on vaccination in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemicHannah Schmid-Petri0Moritz Bürger1Stephan Schlögl2Mara Schwind3Jelena Mitrović4Ramona Kühn5Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Passau, GermanyFaculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Passau, GermanyFaculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Passau, GermanyFaculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Passau, GermanyFaculty of Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Passau, Germany / Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research and Development of Serbia, SerbiaFaculty of Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Passau, GermanyThere is evidence that specific segments of the population were hit particularly hard by the Covid-19 pandemic (e.g., people with a migration background). In this context, the impact and role played by online platforms in facilitating the integration or fragmentation of public debates and social groups is a recurring topic of discussion. This is where our study ties in, we ask: How is the topic of vaccination discussed and evaluated in different language communities in Germany on Twitter during the Covid-19 pandemic? We collected all tweets in German, Russian, Turkish, and Polish (i.e., the largest migrant groups in Germany) in March 2021 that included the most important keywords related to Covid-19 vaccination. All users were automatically geocoded. The data was limited to tweets from Germany. Our results show that the multilingual debate on Covid-19 vaccination in Germany does not have many structural connections. However, in terms of actors, arguments, and positions towards Covid-19 vaccination, the discussion in the different language communities is similar. This indicates that there is a parallelism of the debates but no social-discursive integration.https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6058content analysiscovid-19multilingual communitiestwittervaccination debate |
| spellingShingle | Hannah Schmid-Petri Moritz Bürger Stephan Schlögl Mara Schwind Jelena Mitrović Ramona Kühn The multilingual Twitter-discourse on vaccination in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic Media and Communication content analysis covid-19 multilingual communities vaccination debate |
| title | The multilingual Twitter-discourse on vaccination in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic |
| title_full | The multilingual Twitter-discourse on vaccination in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic |
| title_fullStr | The multilingual Twitter-discourse on vaccination in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic |
| title_full_unstemmed | The multilingual Twitter-discourse on vaccination in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic |
| title_short | The multilingual Twitter-discourse on vaccination in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic |
| title_sort | multilingual twitter discourse on vaccination in germany during the covid 19 pandemic |
| topic | content analysis covid-19 multilingual communities vaccination debate |
| url | https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6058 |
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