Quantifying the online news media coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic

Krawczyk, Konrad; Chełkowski, Tadeusz; Mishra, Swapnil; Xifara, Denise; Gibert, Benjamin; Laydon, Daniel J.; Flaxman, Seth; Mellan, Thomas A.; Schwämmle, Veit; Röttger, Richard; Hadsund, Johannes T; Bhatt, Samir

doi:10.1101/2020.12.24.20248813

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“…The media's framing of crisis messages and the timing of the delivery play a critical role in driving the public's attention and adoption of risk protective measures [54]. The emotional response to news coverage contributes to the public's pandemic response [55], and the overall higher negative sentiment towards news media found in this study is of concern.…”

Section: Lessons Learned: News Media Should Expand the Focus Of Their Messaging To Increase Message Acceptancementioning

confidence: 72%

Examining Social Media Crisis Communication during Early COVID-19 from Public Health and News Media for Quality, Content, and Corresponding Public Sentiment

MacKay

Colangeli

Gillis

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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Rising COVID-19 cases in Canada in early 2021, coupled with pervasive mis- and disinformation, demonstrate the critical relationship between effective crisis communication, trust, and risk protective measure adherence by the public. Trust in crisis communication is affected by the communication’s characteristics including transparency, timeliness, empathy, and clarity, as well as the source and communication channels used. Crisis communication occurs in a rhetorical arena where various actors, including public health, news media, and the public, are co-producing and responding to messages. Rhetorical arenas must be monitored to assess the acceptance of messaging. The quality and content of Canadian public health and news media crisis communication on Facebook were evaluated to understand the use of key guiding principles of effective crisis communication, the focus of the communication, and subsequent public emotional response to included posts. Four hundred and thirty-eight posts and 26,774 anonymized comments were collected and analyzed. Overall, the guiding principles for effective crisis communication were inconsistently applied and combined. A limited combination of guiding principles, especially those that demonstrate trustworthiness, was likely driving the negative sentiment uncovered in the comments. Public health and news media should use the guiding principles consistently to increase positive sentiment and build trust among followers.

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Section: Lessons Learned: News Media Should Expand the Focus Of Their Messaging To Increase Message Acceptancementioning

confidence: 72%

Examining Social Media Crisis Communication during Early COVID-19 from Public Health and News Media for Quality, Content, and Corresponding Public Sentiment

MacKay

Colangeli

Gillis

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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“…Indeed, since the discovery of the first COVID-19 case, there has been extensive social media coverage of the topic. Krawczyk et al (2020) estimated that in the US roughly 25.91% of frontpage articles on news media were about COVID-19 against 15.29% discussing Trump as sitting president. However, COVID-19 media coverage peaked in the first week of April in the US, and has declined since then regardless of the number of COVID-19 confirmed cases (Pearman et al, 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

Trust in the time of coronavirus: longitudinal evidence from the United States

Aassve¹,

Capezzone²,

Cavalli³

et al. 2022

Preprint

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The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed most countries to an unexpected crisis, with unclear consequences for citizens’ trust in others and in public authorities. This study shed lights on how social and political trust changed during the pandemic. We conducted a longitudinal survey in the US of about 1000 respondents at three points in time during the pandemic. We elicited respondents’ trust towards other people and towards different institutional authorities, along with attribution of responsibility for the current situation. Results show that institutional trust fell, while interpersonal trust slightly increased, especially during the peak of the first pandemic wave. This dynamic was mainly driven by Republicans, whose institutional trust decreased, especially when exposed to COVID-19, along with growth in social trust. Considering that Republicans attributed, at the time, more responsibilities to their political leader, we argue that institutional trust was crowded out by social trust. Disappointed voters felt unprotected by institutions and looked for support elsewhere in society. Consistent with this, though, in the reverse direction, experimental results from the third wave show that Republicans increased institutional trust. However, social trust fell when primed with positive information about the pandemic. Overall, these findings suggest that societal shocks may induce people to exchange formal with informal institutions as a coping strategy, with social and political trust moving in opposite directions.

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“…Research on COVID-19 media coverage has been undertaken not only in Korea but also in numerous countries, including the United States and Europe. These studies analyze the topics covered by the media in relation to COVID-19 and examine the influence of media coverage on audience [4][5][6]. Additionally, comparative analyses have been conducted between the current situation with COVID-19 and previous situations, such as SARS and MERS, to understand the media's role and public health communication admist the COVID-19 pandemic [7].…”

Section: Covid-19 Media Coveragementioning

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Analyzing the influence of COVID-19 Media Coverage on Online Information Seeking Behavior in Korea

Kim

2024

APJCRI

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COVID-19 can be deemed the most notable health emergency in the 21st century, as it constituted a startling event that compelled billions of people worldwide into lockdown and isolation. As of August 31, 2023, the most recent statistics for Korea reveal 34.57 million cumulative confirmed cases and 35,934 deaths, instigating a nationwide sense of crisis. Despite the downgrade of Korea's current COVID-19 rating from level 2 to level 4, akin to the flu, public anxiety persists. According to the Risk Information Seeking and Processing (RISP) model, individuals actively seek risk-related information in crisis situations in response to the psychological necessity for adequate information. However, finding previous studies that analyze the practical influence of media coverage on information-seeking behavior related to COVID-19 syndrome in Korea has proven challenging. The main goal of this research is to analyze the influence of COVID-19 media coverage on the online information-seeking behavior of the audience using the RISP model through regression analysis and Granger causality tests. The volume of searches for COVID-19 information was extracted using Naver's search trend analysis tool, which continues to rank first in Korea's search market, surpassing Google, and is widely employed in academic research. The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths was extracted from the COVID-19 outbreak trend statistics provided by the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA). Regression analysis revealed that newspaper coverage of COVID-19, rather than numerical data related to COVID-19 patients (such as the number of verified cases or fatalities), significantly influenced COVID-19 online information-seeking behavior. Granger causality tests confirmed an interactive relationship between newspaper reports on COVID-19 and the public's online information-seeking behavior, mutually influencing each other. This suggests that newspaper coverage and online information-seeking behavior have interacted to amplify the nationwide response to the COVID-19 crisis in Korea. In conclusion, unlike previous studies, this research, utilizing regression analysis and Granger causality tests, demonstrated that media coverage of COVID-19 was a pivotal factor influencing online information-seeking behavior at a societal level during the COVID-19 pandemic in Korea.

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Quantifying the online news media coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic

Cited by 7 publications

References 34 publications

Examining Social Media Crisis Communication during Early COVID-19 from Public Health and News Media for Quality, Content, and Corresponding Public Sentiment

Examining Social Media Crisis Communication during Early COVID-19 from Public Health and News Media for Quality, Content, and Corresponding Public Sentiment

Trust in the time of coronavirus: longitudinal evidence from the United States

Analyzing the influence of COVID-19 Media Coverage on Online Information Seeking Behavior in Korea

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