{"title":"津巴布韦的社交媒体、假新闻和对 Covid-19 疫苗的犹豫不决","authors":"M. Chiweshe, Gerald Dandah","doi":"10.1163/09744061-bja10103","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n This exploratory paper uses online ethnography to analyse how fake news on social media shaped perceptions and cognitions about Covid-19 vaccines in Zimbabwe. It explores the emergence of social media as an important space for instilling vaccine hesitancy in the context of Covid-19. The paper focuses on how memes, jokes, fake news stories and reports that were shared and consumed on platforms such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube shaped the health-seeking behaviour of people in the context of Covid vaccines in Zimbabwe. The findings show that most people do not trust the government or health institutions. This distrust means they turn to unofficial online sources of information that fuel myths, conspiracies, rumours and gossip and cause fear, panic and vaccine hesitancy. Most citizens resorted to social media to update each other on the efficacy of vaccines and the pros and cons of getting inoculated, highlighting the scepticism surrounding Covid-19 vaccines in Zimbabwe.","PeriodicalId":41966,"journal":{"name":"Africa Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2024-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":"{\"title\":\"Social Media, Fake News and Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Zimbabwe\",\"authors\":\"M. Chiweshe, Gerald Dandah\",\"doi\":\"10.1163/09744061-bja10103\",\"DOIUrl\":null,\"url\":null,\"abstract\":\"\\n This exploratory paper uses online ethnography to analyse how fake news on social media shaped perceptions and cognitions about Covid-19 vaccines in Zimbabwe. It explores the emergence of social media as an important space for instilling vaccine hesitancy in the context of Covid-19. The paper focuses on how memes, jokes, fake news stories and reports that were shared and consumed on platforms such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube shaped the health-seeking behaviour of people in the context of Covid vaccines in Zimbabwe. The findings show that most people do not trust the government or health institutions. This distrust means they turn to unofficial online sources of information that fuel myths, conspiracies, rumours and gossip and cause fear, panic and vaccine hesitancy. Most citizens resorted to social media to update each other on the efficacy of vaccines and the pros and cons of getting inoculated, highlighting the scepticism surrounding Covid-19 vaccines in Zimbabwe.\",\"PeriodicalId\":41966,\"journal\":{\"name\":\"Africa Review\",\"volume\":null,\"pages\":null},\"PeriodicalIF\":0.2000,\"publicationDate\":\"2024-01-16\",\"publicationTypes\":\"Journal Article\",\"fieldsOfStudy\":null,\"isOpenAccess\":false,\"openAccessPdf\":\"\",\"citationCount\":\"0\",\"resultStr\":null,\"platform\":\"Semanticscholar\",\"paperid\":null,\"PeriodicalName\":\"Africa Review\",\"FirstCategoryId\":\"1085\",\"ListUrlMain\":\"https://doi.org/10.1163/09744061-bja10103\",\"RegionNum\":0,\"RegionCategory\":null,\"ArticlePicture\":[],\"TitleCN\":null,\"AbstractTextCN\":null,\"PMCID\":null,\"EPubDate\":\"\",\"PubModel\":\"\",\"JCR\":\"Q4\",\"JCRName\":\"AREA STUDIES\",\"Score\":null,\"Total\":0}","platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Africa Review","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1163/09744061-bja10103","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"AREA STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
Social Media, Fake News and Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Zimbabwe
This exploratory paper uses online ethnography to analyse how fake news on social media shaped perceptions and cognitions about Covid-19 vaccines in Zimbabwe. It explores the emergence of social media as an important space for instilling vaccine hesitancy in the context of Covid-19. The paper focuses on how memes, jokes, fake news stories and reports that were shared and consumed on platforms such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube shaped the health-seeking behaviour of people in the context of Covid vaccines in Zimbabwe. The findings show that most people do not trust the government or health institutions. This distrust means they turn to unofficial online sources of information that fuel myths, conspiracies, rumours and gossip and cause fear, panic and vaccine hesitancy. Most citizens resorted to social media to update each other on the efficacy of vaccines and the pros and cons of getting inoculated, highlighting the scepticism surrounding Covid-19 vaccines in Zimbabwe.
期刊介绍:
Africa Review is an interdisciplinary academic journal of the African Studies Association of India (ASA India) and focuses on theoretical, historical, literary and developmental enquiries related to African affairs. The central aim of the journal is to promote a scholarly understanding of developments and change in Africa, publishing both original scholarship on developments in individual countries as well as comparative analyses examining the wider region. The journal serves the full spectrum of social science disciplinary communities, including anthropology, archaeology, history, law, sociology, demography, development studies, economics, education, gender studies, industrial relations, literature, politics and urban studies.