ABSTRACT
The aim of the present work is to analyze the different discourses of the COVID-19 unvaccinated young people in the Community of Madrid, in order to understand the motivations and internal coherences that they express to legitimize non-vaccination. For this purpose, we will carry out a methodological triangulation composed of in-depth interviews, ethnography of urban spaces and social network analysis focused on Telegram groups. Thus, we have analyzed the qualitative materials through Grounded Theory procedures and critical discourse analysis. Finally, the three key discursive dimensions found are presented as a result: the right to individual autonomy, social and political manipulation and distrust towards vaccines on scientific grounds. © 2023 Federacion Espanola de Sociologia. All rights reserved.
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This study will seek answers to a research question that aims to evaluate the patterns and the structure of pandemics and their spread in different ages and territories, always taking into account the COVID-19 pandemic: what is the significance and role of emotional contagion in how people behave during the current COVID-19 pandemic, and how do emotions spread across society from person to person, like viruses? Our methodology is based on mapping previous experiences on how societies faced collapse due to epidemic outbreaks to answer this research question. Moreover, we present an autoethnography to revise moment by moment how professional and private lives are being affected by this pandemic right now.
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We want to make a first approach to the behavioral patterns that individuals share throughout the different stages of development of the pandemic. To achieve this aim, we address screen-mediated communication practices, particularly the uses of instant messaging tools as means of information, communication, and emotion during the social distancing caused by the pandemic. Specifically, we focus on the popular WhatsApp messaging app, a key technological tool that mediates social interaction in our primary and secondary social groups, but also in all social communication around this phenomenon.