Reporting on cyclist crashes in Australian newspapers

Boufous, Soufiane; Aboss, Ahmad; Montgomery, Victoria

doi:10.1111/1753-6405.12537

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“…Hence, social groups can target areas to push for better infrastructure if we can understand perception-particularly via local news-towards bicyclists in these areas. Boufous et al [12] states that the newspaper report cycling-related accidents tend to focus on dramatic, out-of-the-ordinary, and frequently quite unusual situations. This style of reporting differs from public health reporting, which focuses on common trends and is more likely to mislead the public and overstate the risk of death connected with riding.…”

Section: Bicycling Transportation and Infrastructure Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…On the contrary, cycling advocates should collaborate with journalists to increase the quality of coverage. Better communication between cycling advocates and journalists may positively impact community cycling safety and use Boufous et al [12]. Macmillan et al [48] analyzed local newspaper reporting on London cyclist fatalities from 1992 to 2012.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Bike Frames: Understanding the Implicit Portrayal of Cyclists in the News

Xingmeng¹,

Walton²,

Shrestha³

et al. 2023

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Increasing the number of cyclists, whether for general transport or recreation, can provide health improvements and reduce the environmental impact of vehicular transportation. However, the public's perception of cycling may be driven by the ideologies and reporting standards of news agencies. For instance, people may identify cyclists on the road as "dangerous" if news agencies overly report cycling accidents, limiting the number of people that cycle for transportation. Moreover, if fewer people cycle, there may be less funding from the government to invest in safe infrastructure. In this paper, we explore the perceived perception of cyclists within news headlines. To accomplish this, we introduce a new dataset, "Bike Frames", that can help provide insight into how headlines portray cyclists and help detect accident-related headlines. Next, we introduce a multi-task (MT) regularization approach that increases the detection accuracy of accident-related posts, demonstrating improvements over traditional MT frameworks. Finally, we compare and contrast the perceptions of cyclists with motorcyclist-related headlines to ground the findings with another related activity for both male-and female-related posts. Our findings show that general news websites are more likely to report accidents about cyclists than other events. Moreover, cyclist-specific websites are more likely to report about accidents than motorcycling-specific websites, even though there is more potential danger for motorcyclists. Finally, we show substantial differences in the reporting about male vs. female-related persons, e.g., more male-related cyclists headlines are related to accidents, but more female-related motorcycling headlines about accidents.WARNING: This paper contains descriptions of accidents and death. 1 CCS Concepts: • Computing methodologies → Discourse, dialogue and pragmatics; Natural language processing; • Human-centered computing → Collaborative and social computing.

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Section: Bicycling Transportation and Infrastructure Researchmentioning

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Section: Bicycling Transportation and Infrastructure Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bike Frames: Understanding the Implicit Portrayal of Cyclists in the News

Xingmeng¹,

Walton²,

Shrestha³

et al. 2023

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“…Większość wypadków z udziałem motocykli zdarzyła się w dni słoneczne, co jest zbieżne z danymi zebranymi na Filipinach, w Wielkiej Brytanii i Iraku oraz ze statystykami polskiej policji z 2013 i 2014 r. [38,39,40,41,42,43,44]. Z badań Majdzadeh i wsp.…”

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Czynniki wpływające na urazowość narządu ruchu na podstawie danych zebranych od pacjentów zaopatrywanych ambulatoryjnie na Szpitalnym Oddziale Ratunkowym Samodzielnego Publicznego Szpitala Klinicznego nr 1 i hospitalizowanych w Klinice Ortopedii Pomorskiego Uniwersytetu Medycznego w Szczecinie – badanie prospektywne

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2018

Pomeranian J Life Sci

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Introduction: Some contributory factors are commonly known. If a person suffers from dizziness, for example, they will be more likely to lose balance and fall, which, in turn, leads to trauma. The influence of alcohol consumption on the incidence of injury has also been well documented in numerous studies. Other relevant factors, however, have received various assessments and recognition by different researchers. There is some disagreement among scientists concerning obesity. The aim of the thesis was to determine the influence of various factors on the incidence of injury. Materials and methods:The subjects used for the study were 800 patients receiving emergency treatment in the emergency department and hospitalised in the Department of Orthopaedics, Traumatology and Locomotor Oncology, Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin (in Poland). The diagnostic survey method was employed. Results: Within the study group women were found to have a higher incidence of contusion. During a snowfall they also proved to suffer physical trauma more often than men. Men, on the other hand, displayed a higher incidence of injury at work. They were also more likely to suffer from torso injury. Younger individuals were more tired at the time of the accident than their older counterparts. Those having more sleep suffered fewer bone fractures. Conclusions: 1. The research showed that the group with the highest risk of trauma were women aged above 46 and suffering from hypertension. In contrast, for men the risk was highest among working individuals aged under 30. 2. Those with the highest incidence of injury were married couples with two children, having higher or vocational education, not working, living in towns with populations of over 200,000 and having a monthly income between 1000-2000 PLN per family member. 3. External factors like weather had the most significant impact on the incidence of injury sustained in motor vehicle accidents.

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“…Regrettably, road safety topics tend not to be sufficiently reported in the media, as the media most often focuses on events that are considered "rare" or "surprising" (Daniels et al, 2010;Goddard et al, 2019). When road traffic crashes 1 are reported on, it is often through an "episodic" frame that treats them as dramatic events, often attributed to human error and isolated from the broader public health context, rather than "thematic" framing that connects them to a larger systematic public health issue with proven risk factors and solutions (Connor and Wesolowski, 2004;Goddard et al, 2019;te Brömmelstroet, 2020;Boufous et al, 2016;Gupta et al, 2021;Zipper, 2021;Keliikoa et al, 2022). This reporting style also tends to use a "victim/villain" storyline to shift blame between agents of crashes, such as drivers, and vulnerable road users, such as pedestrians (Connor and Wesolowski, 2004;MacRitchie and Seedat, 2008;Keliikoa et al, 2022).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Research has underscored the need for enhanced collaboration between road safety stakeholders and media professionals to improve coverage of road safety topics. This can be achieved through initiatives such as joint workshops and trainings (Connor and Wesolowski, 2004;Rosales and Stallones, 2008;Isaac Kofi et al, 2010;Kenez et al, 2015;Boufous et al, 2016). Journalist trainings on health topics such as suicide and violence against women have been found to increase journalist knowledge and confidence in writing about the topics, facilitating reporting that is better aligned with best practices (Scherr et al, 2019;Easteal et al, 2022).…”

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A content analysis of media coverage on road safety and road traffic crashes in Colombia

Saporito,

Rothenstein-Henry,

Zeynalova

et al. 2023

Front. Future Transp.

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Introduction: In Colombia, road traffic crashes are the eighth leading cause of death. In 2017, as part of the Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRS), Vital Strategies supported government-led journalist trainings in Colombia to shift media discourse of road safety as a public health and development issue with known risk factors and achievable solutions, to ultimately catalyze public and policymaker concern and action. This study evaluates the effects these trainings had on road safety reporting.Methods: Articles about BIGRS road safety work published between 1 May 2017 and Aug. 30, 2021 were collected from a database maintained by communication officers. The sample included 870 articles, which were systematically analyzed for year-wise frequency by independent coders. Inter-reliability (Cohen’s Kapp K > 0.94) was established using a codebook developed to identify examples of best practices shared during trainings.Results: From 2017 to 2021, there was a 27% increase in articles that situated road traffic collisions (RTCs) as due to systemic issues (thematic framing) rather than isolated events (episodic framing). Almost all observed articles used at least one WHO-recommended story angle (96%) and key element (95%). Reporting angles focused on the human story were largely underutilized (2%–5%). Government representatives (81%), mostly from the Secretary of Mobility (67%), were the most cited sources and road safety advocates were the least (3%). Use of terms “crash” and “collision” increased across the study period (crash: 47% in 2017 to 59% in 2021; collision: 0.4% in 2019 to 5% in 2020). However, RTCs continued to be widely called “accidents” (46%). More than half of articles referenced either “victims” or “vulnerable road users” (55%); use of “person” to refer to victims/vulnerable road users increased from 33% in 2017 to 56% in 2020.Conclusion: Over the course of the BIGRS journalist training program, reporting in Colombia increasingly used best practices to frame road safety as a public health issue. This highlights how media engagement is important to comprehensive road safety strategies and should be more widely adopted. Future training efforts should focus on finding the human story, and on changing overreliance on terms like “accident” that make RTCs seem inevitable.

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Reporting on cyclist crashes in Australian newspapers

Cited by 10 publications

References 9 publications

Bike Frames: Understanding the Implicit Portrayal of Cyclists in the News

Bike Frames: Understanding the Implicit Portrayal of Cyclists in the News

A content analysis of media coverage on road safety and road traffic crashes in Colombia

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