Antivacinação, redes sociais e desinformação: uma análise em um grupo do Facebook através da mineração de dados

• Autor(a) principal: Vieira, Larissa Machado
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/11112
• topic: Antivacinação; Redes sociais virtuais; Desinformação; Facebook; Anti-vaccination; Virtual social networks; Misinformation; Facebook; CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::COMUNICACAO

The theme of misinformation about vaccines propagated on virtual social networks will be explored, which can cause losses for the success of the population’s immunization coverage. Within this proposal, aiming to analyze the most frequently reported subthemes in the group and what they reveal about the controversies surrounding vaccines, data were collected from an anti-vaccine group active on Facebook using data mining techniques, making it possible to obtain the most relevant themes. spoken in that space between the years 2015 and 2019. Some patterns were found, revealing, in addition to other issues in circulation, two important subthemes present in the group: first, terms showing that anti-vaccination is a subject closely linked to family relationships, as well as the recurrence of the words "measles" and "autism" was discovered, a situation that may lead to an existing controversy surrounding the triple viral vaccine, motivated by a lack of information fostered since the late 1990s.