Social Work

Debates about vaccines and climate change on social media networks: a study in contrasts

J. Schonfeld, E. Qian, et al.

This fascinating study conducted by Justin Schonfeld, Edward Qian, Jason Sinn, Jeffrey Cheng, Madhur Anand, and Chris T. Bauch delves into the interactions surrounding climate change and vaccines through the lens of 87 million tweets. The findings reveal intriguing dynamics in how pro-vaccine users relate to climate change beliefs, suggesting that our spatial understanding of environmental systems may shape human connections.

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Abstract

This study uses machine learning to analyze 87 million tweets on climate change and vaccines. It finds that the vaccine conversation shows less interaction between users with differing sentiments, more fragmented networks, and numerous isolated neutral communities. Pro-vaccine users largely supported anthropogenic climate change, but the reverse wasn't true. The study proposes that the spatial scale of environmental systems influences the structure of human populations, explaining these contrasting patterns.

Publisher

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications

Published On

Dec 13, 2021

Authors

Justin Schonfeld, Edward Qian, Jason Sinn, Jeffrey Cheng, Madhur Anand, Chris T. Bauch

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