@article{hammarlin-etal-2023-covid-329784, title = {COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: A Mixed Methods Investigation of Matters of Life and Death.}, abstract = {In this article, hesitancy towards COVID-19 vaccinations is investigated as a phenomenon touching upon existential questions. We argue that it encompasses ideas of illness and health, and also of dying and fear of suffering. Building on a specific strand within anti-vaccination studies, we conjecture that vaccine hesitancy is, to some extent, reasonable, and that this scepticism should be studied with compassion. Through a mixed methods approach, vaccine hesitancy, as it is being expressed in a Swedish digital open forum, is investigated and understood as, on the one hand, a perceived need of protecting one’s body from techno-scientific experiments, and thus the risk of becoming a victim of medicine itself. On the other hand, the community members express what we call a tacit belief in modern medicine by demonstrating their own “expert” pandemic knowledge. The analysis also shows how the COVID-19 pandemic triggers memories of another pandemic, namely the swine flu in 2009–2010, and what we term a medical crisis that occurred then, due to a vaccine thatcaused a rare but severe side effect in Sweden and elsewhere.}, journal = {Journal of Digital Social Research (JDSR)}, author = {Hammarlin, MIa-Marie and Kokkinakis, Dimitrios and Borin, Lars}, year = {2023}, volume = {5}, number = {4}, pages = {31--61}, } @inProceedings{berdicevskis-etal-2023-superlim-331445, title = {Superlim: A Swedish Language Understanding Evaluation Benchmark}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, December 6-10, 2023, Singapore / Houda Bouamor, Juan Pino, Kalika Bali (Editors)}, author = {Berdicevskis, Aleksandrs and Bouma, Gerlof and Kurtz, Robin and Morger, Felix and Öhman, Joey and Adesam, Yvonne and Borin, Lars and Dannélls, Dana and Forsberg, Markus and Isbister, Tim and Lindahl, Anna and Malmsten, Martin and Rekathati, Faton and Sahlgren, Magnus and Volodina, Elena and Börjeson, Love and Hengchen, Simon and Tahmasebi, Nina}, year = {2023}, publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics}, address = {Stroudsburg, PA}, ISBN = {979-8-89176-060-8}, pages = {8137----8153}, }