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Replication Data for: Tawat M. Fake News and COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: A Study of Practices and Sociopolitical Implications in Cameroon. |
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doi:10.7910/DVN/3WPVMW |
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Harvard Dataverse |
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2024-03-31 |
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Tawat, Mahama, 2024, "Replication Data for: Tawat M. Fake News and COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: A Study of Practices and Sociopolitical Implications in Cameroon.", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/3WPVMW, Harvard Dataverse, V1 |
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Title: |
Replication Data for: Tawat M. Fake News and COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: A Study of Practices and Sociopolitical Implications in Cameroon. |
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Identification Number: |
doi:10.7910/DVN/3WPVMW |
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Authoring Entity: |
Tawat, Mahama (Jönköping University) |
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Harvard Dataverse |
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Tawat, Mahama |
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Depositor: |
Tawat, Mahama |
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Date of Deposit: |
2024-03-31 |
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Holdings Information: |
https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/3WPVMW |
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Social Sciences, COVID-19, Fake News, Cameroon, Pandemic, Public health, Social policy, Vaccine hesitancy, Communication |
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As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to exact a heavy death toll, weakens health systems and devastates economies, the discovery and delivery of vaccines have rekindled hope. However, fake news has emerged as a serious obstacle to countries’ vaccination campaigns. Taking Cameroon as a case study, this article investigates the practices (types and contents) and sociopolitical implications at micro and macro levels of fake news on COVID-19 vaccines and vaccination campaign. It shows that vaccine hesitancy is mostly linked to conspiracy theories. Vaccine complacency, the first component of vaccine hesitancy, mainly relates to conspiracy theories about foreign extermination/experimentation plots. Vaccine confidence, the second component of vaccine hesitancy mostly correlates with conspiracy theories alleging the complicity of local authorities in these plots. Vaccine confidence, the third component of vaccine hesitancy, is linked to disinformation notably about acts of corruption. These translate into claims of alternative truth, infodemic, nationalism and distrust of elites at individual level, and the rise of vaccine hesitancy, the delegitimization of public institutions and claims of alternative truth at societal level. The phenomenon occurs in fairly similar ways as in the West but there are marked thematic differences. The article provides policy recommendations on the scientific, communication, and sociopolitical planes. |
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https://nakala.fr/10.34847/nkl.a0e54352 |
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Available |
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3289 items. File contains Page_url, keyword, Twitters, Twitters_link, Twitters_id... |
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Completeness of Study Stored: |
Data covers the period January-April 2021 covering the arrival of vaccines until the beginning of their distribution. It includes only ministerial tweets and replies to these tweets on vaccines or vaccination against Covid-19 both in English and French. |
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Tawat M. Fake News and COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: A Study of Practices and Sociopolitical Implications in Cameroon. SSRN; 2021. |
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DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3850603. |
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Bibliographic Citation: |
Tawat M. Fake News and COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: A Study of Practices and Sociopolitical Implications in Cameroon. SSRN; 2021. |
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Tweets_replies_Harvard_Dataverse.xlsx |
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Tweet replies to ministerial statements on vaccination against COVID-19. |
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