Özet:

The Covid-19 pandemic, one of the major crisis periods the world faces, has led to significant changes in perceptions and habits in political, social and economic terms, while increasing concerns about people’s health. Due to the priority of digital tools in accessing information, overflow of information, defined as "Infodemia" in the period of the pandemic, has emerged. This misinformation holds an important place in the epidemic of anti-vaccination claims. This study has studied the relationship between the communication practices and political identities of the internet and social media users in Turkey during the pandemic period and the attitude of the vaccine and the perception of the transparency of decision makers. After the field research in January 2020, before the start of the vaccination and the intense discussion of the effects, reliability and production methods of the vaccines, the participants found to have a substantially uncertain and negative attitude towards the use of the coronavirus vaccine. It has been determined that users who define themselves as conservative/religious and nationalists have a lower attitude of vaccination. Participants who defined themselves as secular have a high attitude towards the government’s number of cases hiding while participants who defined themselves as conservative/religious about vaccines have a lower attitude on this issue.

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