%0 Journal Article
%T ¡®Globalist war against humanity shifts into high gear¡¯: Online anti
%A Mark Davis
%J Public Understanding of Science
%@ 1361-6609
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0963662518817187
%X Online media has provided unprecedented opportunities for anti-vaccination groups to spread their message. An extensive scholarly literature has consequently emerged to analyse such discourse and develop strategies for countering it. In this article, I take a different approach. My contention is that it is no longer appropriate to approach anti-vaccination discourse as a stand-alone formation. Such sites, I argue, building on work by McKenzie Wark and Bart Cammaerts, are increasingly part of a wider proliferation of ¡®anti-public¡¯ discourse that contests fundamental democratic conventions, rules of argumentation and so on. The article uses a mixed methods approach based on a systematic content survey supplemented by the presentation of qualitative examples from 56 anti-vaccination websites. By locating anti-vaccination discourse in these broader contexts, I argue, it is possible to understand it as related to a more general transformation in public deliberation
%K health and media
%K online media
%K representations of science
%K science experts
%K scientific literacy
%K vaccination
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0963662518817187