GETTING CURIOUS | What’s The Cure For Vaccine Misinformation? with Dr. Kolina Koltai

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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Science, Self-improvement, Comedy, Education, Society & Culture

4.9 • 21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Chances are, you’ve been exposed to vaccine misinformation. And you could be at risk of believing it. This week, Dr. Kolina Koltai joins Jonathan to explore how vaccine misinformation travels online, why it’s so dangerous, and how you can stop it from spreading. Dr. Kolina Koltai is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for an Informed Public at the University of Washington. Her research focuses on the anti-vaccine community’s use of sociotechnical systems to find, share, and assess vaccine misinformation. She received her PhD in 2020 in Information Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. You can follow her on Twitter @kolinakoltai. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Van Ness, and every week I sit down for a gorgeous conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:10.0	On today's episode, I'm joined by Dr. Kalina Koltai, where I ask her,
0:15.0	what do we do about all this vaccine misinformation?
0:20.0	Welcome to getting curious, this is Jonathan Fanes.
0:22.0	I'm so excited for this guest. I'm so excited for this topic.
0:25.4	Even though it is like one of the more upsetting things of our time, but we're going to kind of put a
0:30.3	interesting spin on it as we so often do.
0:32.7	Welcome to the show Colina Koltai,
0:34.8	who is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center
0:37.5	for an informed public at the University of Washington.
0:41.8	She researches how people make decisions and form opinions based on what they see on social networking sites and in digital communities.
0:52.0	You guys, if you need to like pause that,
0:54.1	rewind it and listen to it again,
0:56.4	maybe you should because essentially,
0:58.3	Colina is saving the world and researching how to do so.
1:03.0	So welcome to the show, Colina, how are you?
1:06.0	I am so excited to be here.
1:07.6	Thank you for having me and what a wonderful intro.
1:09.8	I'm going to use that for all my other future intros.
1:13.2	I mean, you really should.
1:14.8	And also, just so people know,
1:16.4	Colleen is already aware.
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