Özet:

With the start of the production and use of COVID-19 vaccine, discussions on the content and qualities of the vaccines developed also increased. In this process, in which individuals seeking information about vaccine closely follow the discussions in questions, it was observed that a large number of fake content about the negative effects of the vaccine on individual health also got into circulation. The rapid spread of negative discourses about COVID-19 vaccine, especially over the digital media, individuals, is very important due to its potential effect on causing individuals to be sceptical about the qualities of the vaccine and indecisive about getting vaccinated, and poses an obstacle on vaccination, which is one of the most important phases of the fight against COVID-19 pandemic. Based on this perspective, the research focuses on the attitudes of parents, who, for their interests and those of their children, follow the developments about COVID-19 through digital media, towards the anti-vaccine movement, and aims to determine digital parents’ attitudes towards COVID-19 and present the relationship of such attitudes with various factors. In line with this purpose a relational field study based on questionnaire was conducted. As a result of the study, it was determined that digital parents are not against COVID-19 vaccine, but digital parents, well-educated parents who follow digital platforms related to anti-vaccine movement, and trust the content they find on these platforms, have a higher tendency to be indecisive about vaccination.

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