PSEUDOCIENCIA, CONSPIRACION, ENFASIS INDIVIDUALISTA: DISCURSO NEGACIONISTA EN TWITTER ANTE VACUNACIÓN POR COVID-19
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Frente a la pandemia por la COVID-19 y ante la resistencia al inicio de las ¡ornadas de vacunación realizadas en Chile en 2021, se buscó describir la tematización de los discursos negacionistas. Para ello se recopilaron 15.530 tweets que se referían a estos temas y, tras descartar duplicados y temas tangenciales, se analizó un corpus de 3.652 mensajes con una lectura categorial basada en la teoría fundamentada. Los resultados muestran la existencia de dos grandes campos negacionistas: los argumentos pseudocientíficos -desconfianza respecto de la vacuna, sospechas frente a la política y defensa de derechos individuales- y argumentos conspiranoicos -experimentación, ocultamiento de decisiones y acciones de la elite-. Este trabajo concluye que el individualismo (descreencia, sospecha, elucubraciones, ideología) vertebra el negacionismo vacunal chileno.
Faced with the COVID-19 pandemic and with the resistance at the start of the vaccination campaigns held in Chile in 2021, the aim is to describe the thematization of denialist discourses. To do this, 15,530 tweets that refer to these topics are collected and, after discarding duplicates and tangential topics, a corpus of 3,652 messages is analyzed with a categorical reading based on grounded theory. The results show the existence of two large denialist camps: pseudoscientific arguments -mistrust of the vaccine, suspicion of politics and defense of individual rights- and conspiracy arguments -experimentation, concealment of decisions and actions of the elite-. This paper concludes that individualism (disbelief, suspicion, lucubrations, ideology) is the backbone of Chilean vaccine denialism.
Faced with the COVID-19 pandemic and with the resistance at the start of the vaccination campaigns held in Chile in 2021, the aim is to describe the thematization of denialist discourses. To do this, 15,530 tweets that refer to these topics are collected and, after discarding duplicates and tangential topics, a corpus of 3,652 messages is analyzed with a categorical reading based on grounded theory. The results show the existence of two large denialist camps: pseudoscientific arguments -mistrust of the vaccine, suspicion of politics and defense of individual rights- and conspiracy arguments -experimentation, concealment of decisions and actions of the elite-. This paper concludes that individualism (disbelief, suspicion, lucubrations, ideology) is the backbone of Chilean vaccine denialism.
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Vol. 28, No. 46