Department for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
Sociol Health Illn. 2021 Jun;43(5):1191-1205. doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13284. Epub 2021 May 14.
In Denmark, parents have needed to deal with inconsistent presentations of risk regarding the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination. This has complicated the parents' task of making a decision about having their daughters vaccinated. In this article, I analyse how Danish parents engage with digital media when making this decision. The results are based on interviews with 18 Danish parents of girls aged 10-13 years old. In my analysis of the interviews, I found that parents align with one of two Discourses when engaging with digital media in relation to HPV vaccination: one centralised and one decentralised. In the centralised Discourse, parents leave it up to other actors such as health authorities to manage the risks of vaccination, thus limiting the experienced need to engage with digital media; in the decentralised Discourse, however, parents themselves assess potential risks, thereby increasing the need to engage with digital media. As a result, I discuss why some parents can consider it necessary to struggle to engage in literacies when making decisions about complex health topics, even when there are clear government recommendations.
在丹麦，父母需要应对人乳头瘤病毒 (HPV) 疫苗接种方面不一致的风险呈现。这使得父母在决定为女儿接种疫苗时的任务变得复杂。在本文中，我分析了丹麦父母在做出这一决定时如何使用数字媒体。研究结果基于对 18 名年龄在 10 至 13 岁的女孩的丹麦父母的访谈。在对访谈的分析中，我发现父母在与 HPV 疫苗接种相关的数字媒体互动时，会认同两种话语中的一种：集中式话语和分散式话语。在集中式话语中，父母将疫苗接种的风险管理留给卫生当局等其他行为者，从而减少了与数字媒体互动的经验需求；然而，在分散式话语中，父母自己评估潜在风险，从而增加了与数字媒体互动的需求。因此，我讨论了为什么一些父母在决定复杂的健康问题时，即使有明确的政府建议，也认为有必要努力参与读写能力，从而导致需要与数字媒体互动。
