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Vaccination on the Internet: A Qualitative Analysis of Website Discourses

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dc.contributor.authorCashion, Margareten
dc.contributor.authorLucchesi, Nicholasen
dc.contributor.authorPatel, Kelseyen
dc.contributor.authorRoberts, Jonathanen
dc.date.accessioned2017-11-02T20:03:15Zen
dc.date.available2017-11-02T20:03:15Zen
dc.date.issued2014en
dc.description.abstractUS parents searching the Internet to inform themselves about childhood vaccination commonly encounter conflicting information. Typically, government agencies and medical organizations sponsor websites promoting vacccination, and advocacy groups sponsor vaccine-skeptical messages. In our study, we looked at a range of websites concerning vaccination and examined the appeals they used to address visitors, persuasive strategies, and dominant themes. We looked at the first step of the persuasive process, which is conveying messages to the public.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/79936en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVRG Posters;en
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United Statesen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/en
dc.titleVaccination on the Internet: A Qualitative Analysis of Website Discoursesen
dc.typePresentationen

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