Vaccine Hesitancy in the Nordic Countries Trust and Distrust During the COVID-19 Pandemic

List of contributors

Preface

1                      

Introduction: Vaccine hesitancy and the COVID-19 crisis in the Nordic countries

Lars Borin, Mia-Marie Hammarlin, Dimitrios Kokkinakis, and Fredrik Miegel

Part I: Nordic societal trust under stress

2                      

Apollonian & Dionysian trust in vaccination

Mikael Klintman

3                      

Civic side effects

Fredrik Miegel

4                      

Distrust and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Sweden

Björn Rönnerstrand

5                      

“Read the room Sweden”: Memes, trust, and vulnerability in pandemic engagement

Joanna Doona

Part II: COVID-19 in Nordic public discourses

6                      

Trust, mistrust and data narratives about COVID-19 vaccines in Denmark: How people reflect on the past, present and future when navigating the pandemic

Sofie á Rogvi and Klaus Hoeyer

7                      

Trust and the public vaccine debate in Finland before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

Aapo Kuusipalo, Johanna Nurmi, Katri-Maria Järvinen, and Pia Vuolanto

8                      

Uncertainty at the needle point: Vaccine hesitancy, trust and public health communication in Norway during swine flu and COVID-19

Karine Aasgaard Jansen

9                      

Where the fringe and mainstream meet: Discussions on vaccine hesitancy among public radio listeners on Facebook

Emma Ricknell

Part III: The growing chorus on the margin

10                  

Fearing mRNA: A mixed methods study of vaccine rumours

Mia-Marie Hammarlin, Dimitrios Kokkinakis, Fredrik Miegel, and Jullietta Stoencheva

11                  

The COVID-19 vaccine discussion on Twitter: Arguments of sceptics and supporters

Jana Sverdljuk and Bastiaan Bruinsma

12                  

COVID-19, the mark of the beast, and the Last Days: A study on vaccine hesitancy in Norwegian Christian charismatic movements

Tove Ingebjørg Fjell

13                  

“Infections without properties”: Trust and cultural difference in the Norwegian public debate about minorities and COVID-19 before the vaccination

John Ødemark, Vetle Hove, Trine Krigsvoll Haagensen, and Tony Sandset

Index

Biography

Lars Borin is Professor of Natural Language Processing at the Department of Swedish, Multilingualism, Language Technology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He is the co-editor of Approaches to Measuring Linguistic Differences and Constructicography: Constructicon Development across Languages.

Mia-Marie Hammarlin is Reader in Ethnology and Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies in the Department of Communication and Media at Lund University, Sweden. She is the author of Exposed: Living with Scandal, Rumour and Gossip.

Dimitrios Kokkinakis is Reader in Language Technology at the Department of Swedish, Multilingualism, Language Technology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Fredrik Miegel is Reader and Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies in the Department of Communication and Media at Lund University, Sweden.