Societal Narratives on Caregivers in Asia

Ng, Reuben; Indran, Nicole

doi:10.3390/ijerph182111241

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“…Qualitative approaches could be used to look at how the pandemic has impacted relationships between individuals and older family members. In addition, since most of the tweets analyzed covered issues taking place in the West, it may be worthwhile for future scholarship to examine the effect of the pandemic on intergenerational relations in cultures where attitudes toward old age are more positive (Ng et al., 2021a ; Ng & Indran, 2021a , 2021b ; Ng & Lim, 2021 ).…”

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Ageism on Twitter during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Indran

Liu

2022

Journal of Social Issues

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The COVID‐19 crisis has sparked a resurgence of scholarly interest in the issue of ageism. Whether the outbreak thwarts or facilitates efforts to combat ageism hinges upon public sentiments toward the older demographic. This study aims to explore discourse surrounding older adults by analyzing 183,179 related tweets posted during the COVID‐19 pandemic from February to December 2020. Overall, sentiments toward older adults became significantly less negative over time, being the least negative in April, August, and October, though the score remained below the neutral value throughout the 11 months. Our topic modelling analysis generated four themes: “The Need to Protect Older Adults” (41%), “Vulnerability and Mortality” (36%), “Failure of Political Leadership” (12%), and “Resilience” (11%). These findings indicate nascent support for older adults, though attempts to show solidarity may well worsen benevolent ageism.

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Ageism on Twitter during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Indran

Liu

2022

Journal of Social Issues

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“…To minimize potential bias, the videos were rated by two researchers and evidenced high interrater reliability. Nevertheless, in view of the rising popularity of TikTok and its power to shape public perceptions, we encourage more TikTok-related research on the topic that could include psychometrics ( Ng, Allore et al, 2020 ; Ng & Levy, 2018 ; Ng & Rayner, 2010 ), big data techniques ( Giest & Ng, 2018 ; Ng, 2018 ; Ng, Lim et al, 2020 ; Ng & Tan, 2021a ) used to analyze news media ( Ng, 2021a , 2021b ) across cultures ( Ng et al, 2021a , 2021b ; Ng & Indran, 2021a , 2021b ; Ng & Tan, 2021b ) and time ( Ng & Chow, 2021 ).…”

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Hostility Toward Baby Boomers on TikTok

Indran

2022

The Gerontologist

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Background and Objectives The recent entry of the hashtag #OkBoomer into social media vernacular underscores the collective frustration of younger people with a group whose views they find increasingly incompatible with theirs. Most social media analyses in gerontology focus on content on Twitter and Facebook, with content on TikTok virtually unexplored. Given the burgeoning popularity of TikTok among younger people, we assess the content of TikTok videos with the hashtags #OkBoomer or #Boomer to distill the undercurrents of hostility expressed by younger people towards Baby Boomers. Research Design and Methods We collated TikTok videos (N=332) with the hashtags #OkBoomer or #Boomer, which received over 5.4 billion views. Both inductive and deductive approaches guided the qualitative content analysis of the videos. Results Five themes emerged. Most videos (79%) described ‘Negative Encounters with Baby Boomers’ (Theme 1). 58% were about ‘Conflicting Values/Beliefs between Baby Boomers and Younger People’ (Theme 2). 39% were about ‘Baby Boomers Antagonizing Younger Generations’ (Theme 3). 22% of the videos made references to the ‘Karen Meme’ (Theme 4). 7% bemoaned the existence of a ‘Wealth Gap’ between Baby Boomers and younger people (Theme 5). Discussion and Implications Findings reveal that the usage of the hashtags #OkBoomer and #Boomer is highly nuanced, at times explicitly ageist, and at others, emblematic of a phenomenon far more complex than ageism. There is a need to leverage social media as a space to foster interaction between older and younger people. Society is ultimately well served by intergenerational interaction.

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“…Though the QCT does not dictate any standardized procedure to assess the volume of media coverage, we rationalized that an increase in the prevalence of keywords signifies and increase in the media's attention toward COVID-19. Nonetheless, we encourage future research to investigate possible procedures [35][36][37][38][39][40][41] to validate our measures, within the QCT paradigm. Furthermore, the media's attention toward COVID-19 may not equate to the…”

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Media attention toward COVID-19 across 18 countries: The influence of cultural values and pandemic severity

Tan

2022

PLoS ONE

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Background Current media studies of COVID-19 devote asymmetrical attention to social media, in contrast, newspapers have received comparatively less attention. Newspapers are an integral source of current information—that are syndicated and amplified by social media to a wide global audience. This is the first-known study to investigate the impact of cultural values and pandemic severity on media attention towards COVID-19. Findings lay the groundwork for targeted public health communications that are culturally nuanced. Objective We investigated the impact of cultural values and pandemic severity on Media Attention towards COVID-19 across 18 countries. Methods We tracked the global volume of COVID-19 coverage (to measure media attention) over 8 months in a news media database of 12 billion words with 30 million articles from over 7,000 news media sites. Predictors of Media Attention towards COVID-19 came from the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker (incidence and mortality) and Hofstede’s Cultural Values. Results Media attention toward COVID-19 increased 55 times over 8 months. Higher rates of new cases and deaths predicted this exponential increase. Countries with higher power distance, uncertainty avoidance, and long-term orientation, were associated with increased media attention, controlling for covariates. Conclusions Cultural values play a significant role in the news media’s attention toward COVID-19, controlling for pandemic severity. We provided a framework to design targeted public health communications that are culturally nuanced.

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Societal Narratives on Caregivers in Asia

Cited by 29 publications

References 61 publications

Ageism on Twitter during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Ageism on Twitter during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Hostility Toward Baby Boomers on TikTok

Media attention toward COVID-19 across 18 countries: The influence of cultural values and pandemic severity

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