Kadın Sağlığına Yönelik Cinsiyetçi Dezenformasyon: Sosyal Medyada Hpv Aşısı Karşıtlığı
Gendered Disinformation Towards Women’s Health: Anti-Hpv Vaccine on Social Media

Author(s): Aslıhan Ardıç Çobaner
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Communication studies, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Instagram; Gendered disinformation; digital misogyny; HPV vaccines; social media, Instagram
Summary/Abstract: One of the strategies used to silence women is “gendered disinformation”. In the literature, sexist disinformation or sexualized disinformation is defined as online disinformation based on the coordinated dissemination of false or misleading information against women using gendered and racialized narratives. As a form of “digital misogyny”, it aims to silence women who openly voice their opinions on social media and discourage them from participating in the public sphere. This study aims to examine the comments on Instagram influencer Ecem Taşer’s (@ecemtaser) post in which she and her husband announced that both she and her husband had received the HPV vaccine as a threat to women’s health and an example of sexist disinformation. User comments on Ecem Taşer’s post on HPV vaccination and the comments on these comments were analyzed through thematic analysis. Based on a case study, this study aims to understand the effects of sexist disinformation on women’s lives.

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