Published: 2021-06-29

How best to protect life? Anti-vaccine conspiracy narratives during the COVID-19 pandemic

Ewa Kozik Logo ORCID

Abstract

The aim of this article is to report on the social attitudes adopted by representatives of the anti-vaccine movement in response to the threat caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus pandemic. Thanks to the critical discourse analysis applied to texts reproduced in the virtual space, the characteristic features of the anti-vaccine narrative were identified, which were shaped in response to the information about the need to develop and deliver a vaccine against the coronavirus. The analysis covered mainly texts from the alternative news portal "Wolne media", where the author found the most popular conspiracy theories, directly referring to the world view of vaccine opponents.

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Kozik, E. (2021). How best to protect life? Anti-vaccine conspiracy narratives during the COVID-19 pandemic. Studia Etnologiczne I Antropologiczne, 21(1), 1–19. https://doi.org/10.31261/SEIA.2021.21.01.02

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Vol. 21 No. 1 (2021)
Published: 2021-12-31


ISSN: 1506-5790
eISSN: 2353-9860
Ikona DOI 10.31261/SEIA

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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