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Mapping Vaccine Discourse Through Data

Posted on June 08, 2026

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  • Contributor: Dr. Aaron Beveridge
  • Title: “Using Natural Language Processing to Rhetorically Contextualize Audiences: Vaccine Sentiment Analysis of Newspaper Comments, 2017–2023”

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This article demonstrates the value of sentiment analysis for contextualizing audiences in Rhetoric of Health and Medicine by comparing vaccine related newspaper comments to non-vaccine related comments in the New York Times from 2017–2023.

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