Parallel vaccine discourses in Guinea: ‘grounding’ social listening for a non-hegemonic global health

An interesting paper that’s critical of relying on online discourse to represent social listening, when the reality is more nuanced, negotiated and less extreme.

“While the online social listening showcased a predominance of individual and collective safety concerns, distrust towards African elites and Western actors, fieldwork revealed that healthcare workers’ vaccine perceptions were more nuanced and largely shaped by complex kinship relations spanning across online and offline social landscapes.”

Parallel vaccine discourses in Guinea: ‘grounding’ social listening for a non-hegemonic global health - Critical Public Health

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