Framing of Influenza A (H1N1) pandemic in a Singaporean newspaper

Basnyat, Iccha; Lee, Seow Ting

doi:10.1093/heapro/dau028

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“…Their study revealed that the news coverage focused more on H1N1 information updates and prevention than on other frames. In another one of their articles [ 20 ], four additional news themes were found— imported disease , war/battle metaphors , social responsibility and lockdown policy . Shih, Wijaya and Brossard [ 21 ] focused on news coverage about the mad cow disease, West Nile virus and avian flu from the New York Times by examining six frames— consequence , uncertainty , action , reassurance , conflict , new evidence .…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Analyzing Spanish News Frames on Twitter during COVID-19—A Network Study of El País and El Mundo

Justicia

2020

IJERPH

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While COVID-19 is becoming one of the most severe public health crises in the twenty-first century, media coverage about this pandemic is getting more important than ever to make people informed. Drawing on data scraped from Twitter, this study aims to analyze and compare the news updates of two main Spanish newspapers El País and El Mundo during the pandemic. Throughout an automatic process of topic modeling and network analysis methods, this study identifies eight news frames for each newspaper’s Twitter account. Furthermore, the whole pandemic development process is split into three periods—the pre-crisis period, the lockdown period and the recovery period. The networks of the computed frames are visualized by these three segments. This paper contributes to the understanding of how Spanish news media cover public health crises on social media platforms.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Analyzing Spanish News Frames on Twitter during COVID-19—A Network Study of El País and El Mundo

Justicia

2020

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“…In an authoritarian context, the press takes a leading role in conveying public health messages (Schwartz, 2012;Basnyat and Lee, 2015). In Singapore, (Deurenberg-Yap et al, 2005) revealed that there was high trust in the state and its institutions in the management and knowledge transfers of the epidemic, despite limited knowledge about control measures and the SARS virus itself by Singaporeans.…”

Section: The Press In Singaporementioning

confidence: 99%

The COVID-19 Pandemic and Outbreak Inequality: Mainstream Reporting of Singapore's Migrant Workers in the Margins

Kaur‐Gill

2020

Front. Commun.

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Singapore saw a majority of COVID-19 infections plaguing low-skilled migrant construction workers by late April 2020. In the initial phases of the outbreak, mainstream frames were quick to highlight the gathering of low-skilled workers in open areas as sites to be surveilled, shaping the divisive practices of othering in early frames on migrant worker behaviors. These reports were manufactured as Singaporeans continued to gather in public spaces in large groups during the outbreak. Mainstream reports were quick to inform audiences of the surveillance and control on display for disciplining migrant workers. As the crisis developed to impact migrant workers predominantly, the erasures are recovered with mainstream press reporting worker vulnerabilities and discussing the structural implications of managing migrant labor as neoliberal subjects. The structural conditions of migrant labor were, in fact, centered in mainstream narratives, and dormitories as public health threats were extensively discussed, shedding light on discourses relating to outbreak inequality. The rights framework, however, remained largely absent in mainstream news frames about migrant workers.

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“…According to the recent report on "framing of Influenza A (H1N1) pandemic in a Singaporean newspaper," Basnyat and Lee concluded that "news coverage during the H1N1 pandemic reflected how the newspaper framed and mediated the information flow, amplified a positive tone for the government response." 3 In fact, the role of newspaper and other mass media during new emerging disease pandemic is an interesting issue. It is of no doubt that, the mass media can bring both positive and negative attitude.…”

Section: To the Editormentioning

confidence: 99%