The Hierarchy of News Values – A Corpus-Based Diachronic and Cross-Cultural Comparison of News Reporting on Epidemics

Zhang, Weiyu; Cheung, Yin Ling

doi:10.1080/1461670x.2021.2021104

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“…Abbreviations: ADE, antibody-dependent enhancement; CS, cytokine storm; DEBT, immunity debt; EXH, exhaustion/anergy/immunoparalysis; HERD, herd immunity; HH, hygiene hypothesis; INTERF, viral interference; OAS, original antigenic sin; OS, oxidative stress. We should also acknowledge that there is an abundant literature on the cultural differences in health communication, reflecting a different traditional media market (55,56) and studies on communication of the COVID-19 pandemics have highlighted the different weight given to political actors across different countries (57). Additionally, there are cultural differences in the information seeking behaviour of the public (58) and in the susceptibility to misinformation, as shown in the case of COVID-19 (59).…”

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Use of immunology in news and YouTube videos in the context of COVID-19: politicisation and information bubbles

George,

Goodey,

Russo

et al. 2024

Front. Public Health

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BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic propelled immunology into global news and social media, resulting in the potential for misinterpreting and misusing complex scientific concepts.ObjectiveTo study the extent to which immunology is discussed in news articles and YouTube videos in English and Italian, and if related scientific concepts are used to support specific political or ideological narratives in the context of COVID-19.MethodsIn English and Italian we searched the period 11/09/2019 to 11/09/2022 on YouTube, using the software Mozdeh, for videos mentioning COVID-19 and one of nine immunological concepts: antibody-dependent enhancement, anergy, cytokine storm, herd immunity, hygiene hypothesis, immunity debt, original antigenic sin, oxidative stress and viral interference. We repeated this using MediaCloud for news articles.Four samples of 200 articles/videos were obtained from the randomised data gathered and analysed for mentions of concepts, stance on vaccines, masks, lockdown, social distancing, and political signifiers.ResultsVaccine-negative information was higher in videos than news (8-fold in English, 6-fold in Italian) and higher in Italian than English (4-fold in news, 3-fold in videos). We also observed the existence of information bubbles, where a negative stance towards one intervention was associated with a negative stance to other linked ideas. Some immunological concepts (immunity debt, viral interference, anergy and original antigenic sin) were associated with anti-vaccine or anti-NPI (non-pharmacological intervention) views. Videos in English mentioned politics more frequently than those in Italian and, in all media and languages, politics was more frequently mentioned in anti-guidelines and anti-vaccine media by a factor of 3 in video and of 3–5 in news.ConclusionThere is evidence that some immunological concepts are used to provide credibility to specific narratives and ideological views. The existence of information bubbles supports the concept of the “rabbit hole” effect, where interest in unconventional views/media leads to ever more extreme algorithmic recommendations.

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Use of immunology in news and YouTube videos in the context of COVID-19: politicisation and information bubbles

George,

Goodey,

Russo

et al. 2024

Front. Public Health

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“…Estas escolhas fundamentam-se em critérios, ou "valores-notícia" utilizados pelos profissionais do jornalismo para avaliar a noticiabilidade de uma potencial história, e que têm sido tema de investigação desde a publicação de "The Structure of Foreign News" (A Estrutura de Notícias Estrangeiras) por Galtung e Ruge (1965). Apesar de várias revisões (Joye et al, 2016), os 12 valores-notícia identificados pelos autores foram recorrentemente confirmados por outros estudos, incluindo investigação sobre a cobertura de crises de saúde pública -por exemplo, a proximidade geográfica e o impacto negativo de uma epidemia (em termos de vidas perdidas) influenciam a frequência da cobertura, ainda que a sua relevância seja variável entre organizações de notícias em diferentes países (Florea & Woelfel, 2021;Zhang & Cheung, 2022). A proximidade cultural, outro critério de noticiabilidade identificado por Galtung e Ruge (1965), é também um fator saliente nas rotinas de produção de notícias durante crises de saúde pública (Joye, 2010;Kim, 2022).…”

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News Coverage of the COVID-19 Outbreak: Thematic Analysis of a Portuguese Quality Newspaper

Rodrigues

2023

revistacomsoc

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News coverage can play a vital role during public health crises, raising awareness about potential risks, informing about response efforts, and encouraging preventive behaviors. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has increased the precariousness of journalists while introducing new challenges in their work. This article presents the results of a thematic analysis of 612 news articles about the initial stages of the COVID-19 outbreak in Portugal, published in a Portuguese quality newspaper from January to March 2020. Results show the relevance of geographical and cultural proximity as news values in international coverage. While the quantification of cases and deaths was a prominent theme in international and domestic coverage, specific cases of infection were frequent in domestic news, while general epidemiological indicators were more often the main theme in international coverage. News about events in Portugal was also more focused on specific containment and mitigation measures, while international coverage found states of emergency and lockdowns more newsworthy. As for news sources, there was a clear dependence on public officials and press releases from Direção-Geral de Saúde as information sources. The experiences and opinions of people speaking as individuals and not on behalf of organizations were much less frequent.

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“…As Fowler (2013) stated, news is a product of social construction, reflecting and shaping the dominant values of society. In recent years, researchers have increasingly combined corpus methods with news value analysis (Bednarek et al, 2021;Potts et al, 2015;Zhang and Cheung, 2022) to make up for the shortcomings of qualitative-only methods in terms of representativeness and generalizability. This study also follows this trend, provides a new perspective for understanding the representation of Chinese modernization in international media through a systematic analysis of 192 related reports in Malaysian media, promotes cultural exchanges and mutual understanding between the two countries in news reports, improves the effect of foreign communication, builds a foreign discourse system of Chinese modernization and enhances China's international discourse power.…”

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Discourse construction of Chinese modernization from the perspective of Malaysian media

Wang,

Liang

2024

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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This study uses corpus critical discourse analysis to examine the reporting strategies and affective attitudes of Malaysian media towards Chinese modernization. The analysis is based on 192 related news reports and aims to reveal how Malaysian media interpret and construct the discourse of Chinese modernization. The study finds that Malaysian media reports show a diversity of attitudes, with positive and neutral reports dominating and negative reports occupying a small proportion, which needs counter-stigmatization. The study emphasizes the importance of constructing the discourse of Chinese modernization and points out adopting flexible and diversified strategies to construct a foreign discourse system. This study provides new perspectives for understanding the concept of Chinese modernization in the context of globalization and highlights the importance of strengthening media exchanges and cooperation between China and Malaysia.

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The Hierarchy of News Values – A Corpus-Based Diachronic and Cross-Cultural Comparison of News Reporting on Epidemics

Cited by 13 publications

References 38 publications

Use of immunology in news and YouTube videos in the context of COVID-19: politicisation and information bubbles

Use of immunology in news and YouTube videos in the context of COVID-19: politicisation and information bubbles

News Coverage of the COVID-19 Outbreak: Thematic Analysis of a Portuguese Quality Newspaper

Discourse construction of Chinese modernization from the perspective of Malaysian media

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