Analysis of COVID-19 Name Varieties in Chinese Mass and Social Media

Dong, Hongjie; Zhou, Muke; Che, Dewei; Zhang, Huiying; Bodomo, Adams

doi:10.3390/ijerph18189850

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“…In addition, many incorrect denominations and full texts of news reports include geographic locations that are associated with the origin of the disease (e.g., China, Wuhan, Chinese). Similar conclusions were reached by Prieto-Ramos et al [ 59 ] and Dong et al [ 60 ] on institutional and news media denominations of COVID-19 and its causative virus. Therefore, in this study, three Boolean retrievals were designed according to the denominations and geographical locations to avoid missing data.…”

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Risk Communication in the Alert Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Analysis of News Flow at National and Global Levels

Guo

Zhang

Feng

et al. 2022

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This study examined the global media citation network of COVID-19-related news at two stages of the pandemic alert phase, i.e., the national level alert stage and the global level alert stage. The findings reveal that the small-world pattern and scale-free property of media citation networks contributed to the rapid spread of COVID-19-related news around the world. Within the networks, a small number of media outlets from a few countries formed the backbone of the network to control the risk communication; meanwhile, many media of geographical and cultural similarities formed cross-border collaborative cliques in the periphery of the network. When the alert phase escalated from the national level to the global level, the network demonstrated a number of changes. The findings contribute to the understanding of risk communication for international public health emergencies by taking into account the network perspective and evolutionary nature of public health emergencies in analysis.

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confidence: 87%

Risk Communication in the Alert Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Analysis of News Flow at National and Global Levels

Guo

Zhang

Feng

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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“…It was first called “unknown” virus pneumonia and then it was called “new coronavirus pneumonia”; COVID-19 was introduced by WHO [ 36 ], after that, COVID-19 was widely used in the study of this “unknown” virus pneumonia [ 37 , 38 ]. Facing COVID-19, there was presumably no pre-existing immunity in the population against the new coronavirus, and everyone in the population was assumed to be susceptible [ 37 ].…”

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confidence: 99%

COVID-19 Related Early Google Search Behavior and Health Communication in the United States: Panel Data Analysis on Health Measures

Wang

Liang

Chen

et al. 2023

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The COVID-19 outbreak at the end of December 2019 spread rapidly all around the world. The objective of this study is to investigate and understand the relationship between public health measures and the development of the pandemic through Google search behaviors in the United States. Our collected data includes Google search queries related to COVID-19 from 1 January to 4 April 2020. After using unit root tests (ADF test and PP test) to examine the stationary and a Hausman test to choose a random effect model, a panel data analysis is conducted to investigate the key query terms with the newly added cases. In addition, a full sample regression and two sub-sample regressions are proposed to explain: (1) The changes in COVID-19 cases number are partly related to search variables related to treatments and medical resources, such as ventilators, hospitals, and masks, which correlate positively with the number of new cases. In contrast, regarding public health measures, social distancing, lockdown, stay-at-home, and self-isolation measures were negatively associated with the number of new cases in the US. (2) In mild states, which ranked one to twenty by the average daily new cases from least to most in 50 states, the query terms about public health measures (quarantine, lockdown, and self-isolation) have a significant negative correlation with the number of new cases. However, only the query terms about lockdown and self-isolation are also negatively associated with the number of new cases in serious states (states ranking 31 to 50). Furthermore, public health measures taken by the government during the COVID-19 outbreak are closely related to the situation of controlling the pandemic.

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“…Based on the identified terms, a Boolean retrieval scheme was designed to retrieve COVID‐19‐related news (see Table 1). The retrieval scheme also referred to the studies of Prieto‐Ramos, Pei, and Cheng (2020) and Dong et al (2021) on institutional and news media denominations of COVID‐19.…”

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Information dissemination during public health emergencies: analysing the international flow of COVID‐19‐related news

et al. 2023

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A large‐scale exchange of information between media across national borders is frequently observed when a worldwide public health emergency occurs. This study investigated the global news citation network in the early stage of the COVID‐19 pandemic by analysing the network structure at different levels to identify important nodes and the relationships among news organisations. The results show that COVID‐19‐related international news flow had a complex and unequal pattern, with a few countries and media outlets occupying a prominent place in the network and three media groups played key but different roles in disseminating the news. It was jointly influenced by national traits, the relatedness between countries, and the pandemic emergency with public health risks. From a global perspective, the media of the United States, mainland China, and the United Kingdom played the most important parts in collaboration within the world media system in the early stage of the COVID‐19 pandemic.

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Analysis of COVID-19 Name Varieties in Chinese Mass and Social Media

Cited by 3 publications

References 9 publications

Risk Communication in the Alert Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Analysis of News Flow at National and Global Levels

Risk Communication in the Alert Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Analysis of News Flow at National and Global Levels

COVID-19 Related Early Google Search Behavior and Health Communication in the United States: Panel Data Analysis on Health Measures

Information dissemination during public health emergencies: analysing the international flow of COVID‐19‐related news

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