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Vaccination Research Group [37]
The Virginia Tech Vaccination Research Group conducts research to understand the nature of vaccination controversy and to inform the public about its findings.
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Scholarly Works, Department of English [32]
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From postcard to book cover: illustrating connections between medical history and digital humanities
(2019-10)This article illustrates the value and impact of collaboration among scholars, archivists, and librarians working across universities and government institutions, and how changes in medium-from a born-physical photograph ... -
Representing Diversity in Digital Research: Digital Feminist Ethics and Resisting Dominant Normatives
(The WAC Clearinghouse, 2019)In this paper, the authors consider how their engaged practices of feminist ethics have come up against specific dominant normatives. Privileging the experiences of women of color, they question the embodied relationship ... -
Tackling a Fundamental Problem: Using Digital Labs to Build Smarter Computing Cultures
(University of Chicago Press, 2015-01-19)This timely edited collection will do much to promote and strengthen interdisciplinary collaborations in the digital humanities. -
Responding to the Coding Crisis: From Code Year to Computational Literacy
(Computers and Composition Digital Press, 2015)This innovative book project considers the ways in which literacy crisis discourses have reinvented themselves in the twenty-first century through a richly textured view of these varied discourses. -
Review: Name That Twitter Community!
(PubPub, 2020-01-30)This Python 3.x module bundles a set of useful code functions for humanistic inquiry of social networks. The module assumes that researchers have a set of network subgraphs created through community-detection, and they ... -
Abstract social categories facilitate access to socially skewed words
(PLOS, 2019-02-04)Recent work has shown that listeners process words faster if said by a member of the group that typically uses the word. This paper further explores how the social distributions of words affect lexical access by exploring ... -
Autism and the MMR Vaccine [annotated bibliography]
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US Antivaccination Movements [annotated bibliography]
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Vaccine Production and Safety [annotated bibliography]
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State Vaccination Information [annotated bibliography]
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Vaccination Schedules [annotated bibliography]
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Global Antivaccination [annotated bibliography]
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Diversity and Vaccine Controversy
(Virginia Tech, 2010)My area of research dealt with many different aspects of the vaccine movement, the main three were: anti-vaccine sentiments over the Internet, global instances of anti-vaccination efforts, and differences in social class ... -
Anti-Vaccination Movement
(Virginia Tech, 2010-03-13)The current anti-vaccination movements that have established themselves in the United States as well as other regions in the world are like a hydra of discourse. Right when one effective measure is created to convince ... -
The Autism Vaccine Scare
(Virginia Tech, 2010)The main goal of vaccination is to stop the spread of communicable diseases. Maintaining a herd vaccination rate of ~90% is how WHO controls outbreaks of preventable infectious diseases. However, the autism vaccine scare ... -
The Influence of Government and Media on Vaccination Opinions
(Virginia Tech, 2010-05-10)Multitudes of vaccines have been produced since the introduction of the very first against smallpox. Some saw success while others were failures. No matter the vaccine, though, there are always those who resist for one ... -
Vaccine Controversy Medical Oversight
(Virginia Tech, 2010)The anti-vaccination movement has gained significant influence because of its extremely diverse underlying support. From distrust of governmental policies regarding vaccination to scientific data that seemingly proves the ... -
Influenza Vaccine History
(Virginia Tech, 2012-10)This media information sheet provides a brief overview of the history of Influenza vaccine development and recommendations made over time concerning vaccine use. -
Andrew Wakefield and the MMR Vaccination Controversy
(Virginia Tech, 2012-03)This information sheet seeks to explain Andrew Wakefieldʼs role in the MMR vaccination controversy and the reaction that followed from his 1998 publication in The Lancet. -
The Thimerosal Controversy
(Virginia Tech, 2013-04)Historically, there has always been a degree of concern related to vaccination. While public health policy in the early 1900s was more concerned with the contamination of vaccine vials with microbes, such as tetanus, that ...
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