Media Exposure to Conspiracy vs. Anti-conspiracy Information. Effects on the Willingness to Accept a COVID-19 Vaccine.

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Central European Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2021-12-28 DOI:10.51480/1899-5101.14.2(29).3

Raluca Buturoiu, Georgiana Udrea, Alexandru-Cristian Dumitrache, Nicoleta Corbu

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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic opened the doors for a corresponding “infodemic”, associated with various misleading narratives related to the SARS-CoV-2 virus. As the way to stop the pandemic was unveiled, misleading narratives switched from the disease itself to the vaccine. Nevertheless, a rather scarce corpus of literature has approached the effects of these narratives on the willingness to take a vaccine against COVID-19. This study investigates how exposure to conspiracy narratives versus information that counter these narratives influences people’s willingness to get vaccinated. Based on an experimental design, using a sample of Romanian students (N=301), this research shows that exposure to factual information related to COVID-19 vaccines meant to debunk conspiracy theories leads to higher willingness to vaccinate. Furthermore, this study shows that young, educated Romanians consider distant others to be more influenced by conspiracy theories on this topic, and, therefore, more prone to exhibit hesitancy towards COVID-19 vaccination.

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媒体对阴谋论与反阴谋论信息的曝光。对COVID-19疫苗接受意愿的影响

新冠肺炎大流行为相应的“信息传播”打开了大门，这些信息传播与与SARS-CoV-2病毒相关的各种误导性叙述有关。随着阻止疫情的方法被揭示，误导性的叙述从疾病本身转向了疫苗。尽管如此，相当稀缺的文献资料已经探讨了这些叙述对接种新冠肺炎疫苗意愿的影响。这项研究调查了接触阴谋论与反阴谋论的信息如何影响人们接种疫苗的意愿。基于一项实验设计，使用罗马尼亚学生样本（N=301），这项研究表明，接触与新冠肺炎疫苗有关的事实信息，以揭露阴谋论，会导致更高的接种意愿。此外，这项研究表明，受过教育的年轻罗马尼亚人认为远方的人更容易受到有关这一主题的阴谋论的影响，因此更容易对新冠肺炎疫苗接种表现出犹豫。

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期刊介绍： Central European Journal of Communication provides an international forum for empirical, critical and interpretative, quantitative and qualitative research examining the role of communication in Central Europe and beyond. The journal welcomes high quality research and analysis from diverse theoretical and methodological approaches, as well as reviews of publications and publishes notes on a wide range of literature on media and communication studies. Submission of original articles is open to all researchers interested in communication and media.