Food crisis coverage by social and traditional media: A case study of the 2008 Irish dioxin crisis

Shan, Liran Christine; Regan, Áine; Brún, Aoife De; Barnett, Julie; Sanden, Maarten C. A. van der; Wall, Patrick; McConnon, Áine

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“…With more variety and a larger amount of information included in media reports, it is possible for consumers to gain more understanding of an incident. These results support the work of McCarthy, Brennan, De Boer and Ritson (2008) and Shan et al (2014), and extent their findings to identify additional information provided to the public. The timing of reports identified in this study agrees with Shan et al (2014) that the government exposes incidents earlier than the media.…”

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The role of media reporting in food safety governance in China: A dairy case study

2019

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Using dairy products as the case study of interest, the aim of the research is to explore the role of the media in food safety governance in China. Thematic content analysis is used to evaluate government and media reports (n = 233) on dairy related food safety incidents in China between 2004 and 2017 with differences identified between government and media reporting. The data is extracted from an online database (Zhichuchuangwai). The results show that the government performs better on exposing incidents earlier within the 14-year period but the news media plays a complementary role in food safety governance exposing a wider coverage of incidents. This study extends the current literature on the role of the news media in food safety governance in China by focusing on a single food sector (dairy), but on a national scale.

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The role of media reporting in food safety governance in China: A dairy case study

2019

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“…Based on a classical coping framework, approach or avoidance as a first categorisation of people's reactions can be indicative of which reactions might escalate or not (Folkman & Moskowitz, 2004) and then be further amplified (see e.g. Barnett & Breakwell, 2003;Pidgeon & Barnett, 2013;Shan et al, 2013). For example, as shown during the EHEC crisis, the avoidance of products initially thought to be contaminated -cucumbers -escalated into widespread economic losses and negative impacts for farmers, due to sales drops (Gaspar et al, 2014).…”

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Beyond positive or negative: Qualitative sentiment analysis of social media reactions to unexpected stressful events

Gaspar

Pedro

Panagiotopoulos

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Computers in Human Behavior

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Sentiment analysis techniques are increasingly used to grasp reactions from social media users to unexpected and potentially stressful social events. This paper argues that, alongside assessments of the affective valence of social media content as negative or positive, there is a need for a deeper understanding of the context in which reactions are expressed and the specific functions that users' emotional states may reflect. To demonstrate this, we present a qualitative analysis of affective expressions on Twitter collected in Germany during the 2011 EHEC food contamination incident based on a coding scheme developed from Skinner et al.'s (2003) coping classification framework. Affective expressions of coping were found to be diverse not only in terms of valence but also in the adaptive functions they served: beyond the positive or negative tone, some people perceived the outbreak as a threat while others as a challenge to cope with. We discuss how this qualitative sentiment analysis can allow a better understanding of the way the overall situation is perceived-threat or challenge-and the resources that individuals experience having to cope with emerging demands.

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“…Whilst unsurprising, given that each draws on the other (Tufekci 2014), the rise and fall in the volume of social media broadly relates to the rise and fall in traditional media coverage (Shan et al 2013) different processes underlie their production and their significance for SARF. Exploring Twitter revealed a two-way relationship between tweets and traditional media, enabling us to see the interaction of various strands of media, government statements and user content.…”

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The social amplification of risk on Twitter: the case of ash dieback disease in the United Kingdom

Fellenor

Barnett

Potter

et al. 2017

Journal of Risk Research

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It has long been recognised that the traditional media play a key role in representing risk and are a significant source of information which can shape how people perceive and respond to hazard events. Early work utilising the social amplification of risk framework (SARF) sought to understand the discrepancy between expert and lay perceptions of risk and patterns of risk intensification and attenuation with reference to the media. However, the advent of Web 2.0 challenges traditional models of communication. To date there has been limited consideration of social media within the SARF and its role in mediating processes of risk perception and communication. Against this backdrop, we focus on the social media platform Twitter to consider the social amplification of risk in relation to ash dieback disease (Hymenoscyphus fraxineus); a tree health issue that attracted intense media attention when it was first identified in the UK in 2012. We present an empirical analysis of 25,600 tweets in order to explore what people were saying about ash dieback on Twitter, who was talking about it and how they talked about it. Our discussion outlines the themes around which talk about ash dieback was orientated, the significance of users??? environmental ???affiliations??? and the role of including links (URLs) to traditional media coverage. We utilise the notion of ???piggybacking??? to demonstrate how information is customised in line with group/individual identities and interests and introduce the concept of the ???frame fragment??? to illustrate how information is selected and moved around Twitter emphasising certain features of the messages. The paper affords a detailed consideration of the way in which people and organisations simultaneously appropriate, construct and pass on risk-relevant information. A conclusion is that social media has the potential to transform the media landscape within which the SARF was originally conceived, presenting renewed challenges for risk communication

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Food crisis coverage by social and traditional media: A case study of the 2008 Irish dioxin crisis

Cited by 61 publications

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The role of media reporting in food safety governance in China: A dairy case study

The role of media reporting in food safety governance in China: A dairy case study

Beyond positive or negative: Qualitative sentiment analysis of social media reactions to unexpected stressful events

The social amplification of risk on Twitter: the case of ash dieback disease in the United Kingdom

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