Intermedia Agenda Setting amid the Pandemic: A Computational Analysis of China’s Online News

Wang, Hanxiao; Shi, Jian

doi:10.1155/2022/2471681

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“…This is likely because Anshun bus accident is a public safety event, the coverage of which within the range of news, and official media have editorial rights, can find angles to obtain first-hand information, while commercial media can only reprint and integrate official media news, hence their dependence on official media is stronger. At the same time, official media not only have to conform to the Chinese Communist Party's views but also face market competition, which makes them have economic logic of increasing their user base and advertising revenue [29], especially local official media, which receive less state financial support. They need to create differentiated news to attract traffic and sustain themselves.…”

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Network Agenda-Setting in Contemporary China

Shen,

Han

2023

Atlantis Highlights in Computer Sciences

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The theory and empirical researches of network agenda-setting are relatively mature, but lack explanatory power in the Chinese context. This study takes the "Anshun bus accident" in July 2020 as a case and conducts an empirical study on network agenda-setting to examine its explanatory power in the Chinese context, exploring the relationship between media agenda and public agenda, as well as the interrelationship between different media agendas. Using Weibo as the research platform, 64 media reports from central official media (People's Daily), local official media (The Paper), and commercial media (Sina News), as well as 1280 Weibo comments and replies are analyzed for content, and co-occurrence matrixes of media and public attributes are formed. The QAP function in UCINET 6 software is applied for social network analysis to test the correlation between agendas. The study reveals that all three types of media have network agenda-setting effects on the public, with official media having a stronger effect than commercial media. At the same time, official media agendas are likely to affect commercial media agendas.

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Network Agenda-Setting in Contemporary China

Shen,

Han

2023

Atlantis Highlights in Computer Sciences

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“…Buturoiu et al (2023) argue that after the pandemic crisis’s onset, traditional media’s power seems to have been transferred to online and digital media outlets. Wang and Shi (2022) highlighted the interaction between various social media news sources based on news content produced by traditional media, while Šķestere and Darģis (2022) showed that the agenda-setting process has been transformed by the dramatic growth of audiences that are simultaneously media consumers and producers. All these studies examined news content related to the main issues of the pandemic crisis, such as patients, vaccines, treatments and governmental policies.…”

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Is it Time to ‘Send in the Clowns’? What Happens to the ‘Rest of the News’ in Social Media during Extreme Crises

Maniou,

Papadopoulou

2024

Media Watch

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Based on a qualitative analysis of news posts on traditional media Facebook pages, this work seeks to explore the way(s) in which established news organisations in the United Kingdom use their social media accounts in times of extreme crisis. Specifically, we seek to assess what (other) types of news are publicised through social media beyond those related to the crisis itself. Findings show that well-respected international news organisations choose to post news items that aim to (a) distract from a bleak reality, (b) suggest ways to cope with new challenges and (c) create a community to alleviate the sense of loneliness. We argue that social media posts about the ‘rest of the news’ in times of crisis do much more than emphasise the ‘softer’ aspects of the crisis; they attempt to deliver another kind of message that there are ways to cope with adversity and that, eventually, things will work out.

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“…Furthermore, in terms of media type, existing research has focused on the role played by mainstream media yet neglected the power of We Media. Some studies have shown that official media failed to lead the discussion, whereas commercial media tended to be more influential than in the past in crisis cases ( Wang and Shi, 2022 ). Whether this conclusion is also able to be proven in the pandemic is still a question.…”

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The application of network agenda setting model during the COVID-19 pandemic based on latent dirichlet allocation topic modeling

Geng²,

Liu³

2022

Front. Psychol.

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Based on Network Agenda Setting Model, this study collected 42,516 media reports from Party Media, commercial media, and We Media of China during the COVID-19 pandemic. We trained LDA models for topic clustering through unsupervised machine learning. Questionnaires (N = 470) and social network analysis methods were then applied to examine the correlation between media network agendas and public network agendas in terms of explicit and implicit topics. The study found that the media reports could be classified into 14 topics by the LDA topic modeling, and the three types of media presented homogeneity in the topics of their reports, yet had their own characteristics; there was a significant correlation between the media network agenda and the public network agenda, and the We Media reports had the most prominent effect on the public network agenda; the correlation between the media agenda and the implicit public agenda was higher than that of the explicit public agenda. Overall, findings showed a significant correlation between network agendas among different media.

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Intermedia Agenda Setting amid the Pandemic: A Computational Analysis of China’s Online News

Cited by 4 publications

References 43 publications

Network Agenda-Setting in Contemporary China

Network Agenda-Setting in Contemporary China

Is it Time to ‘Send in the Clowns’? What Happens to the ‘Rest of the News’ in Social Media during Extreme Crises

The application of network agenda setting model during the COVID-19 pandemic based on latent dirichlet allocation topic modeling

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