Amount Of News Coverage Research Articles

뉴스 기사 빅데이터 분석을 통한 북한이탈주민의 사회적 이슈와 언어 문제 탐색: 2019-2024

Objectives The purpose of this study is to explore social issues and language problems that appear in news articles related to North Korean defectors and to suggest their implications. Methods 561 news articles related to North Korean defectors covered by major domestic newspapers and media companies from 2019 to June 2024 were collected. For analysis tools, language network analysis and topic modeling techniques were used to analyze major keywords and topics and visualize them. In addition, based on the analysis results, social issues and language problems of North Korean defectors were explored, and Korean language education implications were presented. Results he research results are as follows. First, the amount of news coverage has been increasing significantly over the past three years, and political articles have shown an overwhelmingly high proportion. Second, the main keywords are ‘government, support, human rights, protection, and settlement’. The main topics were protection of human rights of North Korean defectors, increasing number of North Korean defectors among elites and the 2030 generation, and complaints of difficulties due to mental and economic discrimination and prejudice in the process of settling in Korea. The content of the government's integrated support policy accounted for a high proportion. Third, it was found that North Korean defectors were struggling with the language difference between North and South Korea, and Korean language education focusing on pronunciation, accent, and vocabulary in each area was necessary for them. Conclusions The main topic of the news article was the integrated support for the protection of human rights and stable settlement of North Korean defectors. However, although North Korean defectors complain of ‘difficulty’ due to economic, psychological, emotional, and linguistic differences, these related topics are hardly covered in the media. Therefore, this paper suggested implications for Korean language education research for North Korean defectors' language adaptation.

“A GLARING OMISSION”: BARRIERS TO INCLUDING LONG-TERM CARE RESIDENTS’ VOICES IN THE NEWS MEDIA

Abstract News media stories on residential long-term care (LTC) are mostly negative in tone, and the increase in news coverage of residential LTC during the COVID-19 pandemic intensified the pessimistic tone with panicked and accusatory reporting. Although there has been an increase in the amount of news coverage on residential LTC over the last two years, the perspectives of the residents themselves have been largely overlooked and excluded. The aim of this study is to identify and understand the barriers and embedded institutional logics in the news reporting process of LTC that prevent residents from being included and interviewed. Using a purposive sampling strategy, the researchers conducted 26 semi-structured interviews with LTC administrators (n=7), journalists on the topics of aging and LTC (n=7), and older residents living in LTC settings (n=12) in the United States. Thematic analysis is applied to the data to qualitatively extract the guiding logics frameworks of each stakeholder group. Findings are grouped into the following four themes: (1) residents are not considered "experts" by reporters and are therefore not a prioritized source of information; (2) facility administrators fear for the facility's public image & reputation and do not enthusiastically cooperate with inquiring reporters; (3) facilities were in physical lockdown for several months during the COVID-19 pandemic, and (4) residents feel forgotten and unheard. Implications of this study point to the social exclusion of older residents living in LTC and reductive reporting that fails to capture their nuanced and dynamic lived experiences.

Close to Beijing: Geographic Biases in People’s Daily

Inequities in China are reflected within state-run media coverage due to its specific role “guiding public opinion,” and with our study we contribute to the geographic turn in the Chinese context with regard to media and journalism. As a subject of a spatial study, China is unique due to several factors: geographic diversity, authoritarian control, and centralized media. By analyzing text from 53,000 articles published in <em>People’s Daily</em> (rénmín rìbào, 人民日報) from January 2016 to August 2020, we examine how the amount of news coverage varies by region within China, how topics and sentiments manifest in different places, and how coverage varies with regard to foreign countries. Automated methods were used to detect place names from the articles and geoparse them to specific locations, combining spatial analysis, topic modeling and sentiment analysis to identify geographic biases in news coverage in an authoritarian context. We found remarkably uniform and positive coverage domestically, but substantial differences towards coverage of different foreign countries.

News Media Presentations of Heated Tobacco Products (HTPs): A Content Analysis of Newspaper and Television News Coverage in South Korea

Our content analysis of newspaper and television news stories in South Korea examines the quantity and nature of news about novel heated tobacco products (HTPs), which heat instead of burn tobacco and that manufacturers claim are less harmful than cigarettes. The amount of news coverage peaked when the government introduced new regulations, suggesting that HTP news was driven largely by new policies. Indeed, HTPs were more likely to be presented as a policy rather than a health issue. When it comes to news sources, government agencies and HTP manufacturers were referenced most often in the news. As for benefits of HTPs, news stories focused on reduced harm, greater social acceptability, and convenience, while discussions of drawbacks included potentially being equally or more harmful than cigarettes, the possibility of extensive future regulations, and HTPs’ unknown health effects. Findings suggested that certain journalistic practices, such as relying heavily on established routine sources, focusing on the stories that could attract large audiences, and representing the perspectives of the publishers and the primary audiences, might have affected the nature of HTP discourse.

Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic and Stock Price Crashes: A Cross-National Correlational Approach

ABSTRACT The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is a serious threat to public health and the economy. Importantly, there was a stock price crash on Monday, March 9, 2020, followed by a similar crash one week later. Leading global indices substantially dropped. Based on previous research indicating that the news media may elicit effects on stock prices, we hypothesized that the amount of news coverage about COVID-19 within a given country would predict the size of the stock price drop in that country. Using data for N = 58 nations from five continents, we observed average stock price drops of 6.57% (week 1) and 6.43% (week 2). Using a cross-national correlational approach, we found a positive relationship between the amount of news coverage about COVID-19 and the extent of the stock price drop. Actual severity within a given country (indicated by the number of confirmed cases and deaths, based on data provided by the World Health Organization) and public attention (indicated by COVID-19-related Internet search engine volume) did not predict the extent of the stock price drop in multivariate analyses. Correlational evidence is consistent with the idea that intensive media reporting on a threatening pandemic with uncertain negative consequences on health, social life, and the economy may provoke substantial reactions in the market, with as yet unknown indirect effects on public health. However, the causal order of media attention and stock price drops should be assessed with caution.

Learning and Subjective Expectation Formation: A Recurrent Neural Network Approach

I propose a flexible non-parametric method using Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) to estimate a generalized model of expectation formation. This approach does not rely on restrictive assumptions of functional forms and parametric methods yet nests the standard approaches of empirical studies on expectation formation. Applying this approach to data on macroeconomic expectations from the Michigan Survey of Consumers (MSC) and a rich set of signals available to U.S. households, I document three novel findings: (1) agents' expectations about the future economic condition have asymmetric and non-linear responses to signals; (2) agents' attentions shift from signals about the current state to signals about the future: they behave as adaptive learners in ordinary periods and become forward-looking as the state of economy gets worse; (3) the content of signals on economic conditions, rather than the amount of news coverage on these signals, plays the most important role in creating the attention-shift. Double Machine Learning approach is then used to obtain statistical inferences of these empirical findings. Finally, I show these stylized facts can be generated by a model with rational inattention, in which information endogenously becomes more valuable when economic status worsens.

Predicting Changes in Patient Choice of Preventive Health Care after Celebrity Diagnoses

There is a debated phenomenon in health care whereby some doctors believe that patients engage more in medical testing following a celebrity medical announcement. Popularly known by anecdotal incidences such as the Angelina Jolie effect, the Katie Couric effect, and the Nancy Reagan effect, as a generalizable theory it is not widely agreed upon among health-care providers and insurers. Here we use longitudinal data to test whether there is a generalizable effect for celebrity breast cancer diagnoses and population screening behaviors. Over a 19-year period, we find no evidence that celebrity cancer incidence alone impacts screening rates. On the other hand, we do find that the amount of news coverage (i.e., the number of news stories) generated by celebrity diagnoses significantly increases breast exams and mammogram rates; every 100 stories about a celebrity’s cancer increase the percentage of women getting mammograms by 0.77 percentage points, an effect several orders of magnitude larger than that of other news stories about cancer. At an average $300 per mammogram, every 100 celebrity cancer news stories would cost insurers an extra $76.23 million. Thus, understanding how celebrity cancer can, but does not always, impact subsequent testing rates is important for theory building, cost prediction, and clinical insight.

The interplay between nationalism and public diplomacy: Examining nationalist publics’ communicative behaviors during an international dispute

Nationalism is an ideology commonly shared amongst members of a nation who feel that their nation is superior and should dominate others; thus, it could be detrimental to the purpose of public diplomacy to promote mutual understanding between nations. To better understand the interplay between nationalism and public diplomacy, this study examines the causes, expressions, and consequences of nationalism. Using the situational theory of problem solving (STOPS) as an analytical framework, a case study is conducted to examine the association between the extent of news coverage and online discussions surrounding a territorial dispute between the Chinese and Japanese Governments. Several findings are made, including that: (a) there is a positive relationship between the amount of news coverage and online discussions surrounding the dispute, (b) nationalist publics interpreted the international dispute as affecting them personally (i.e., displaying international issue personalization effects), and (c) nationalist publics proposed using collective approaches to cope with the dispute. Implications of the findings for public diplomacy are discussed.

Measuring international relations in social media conversations

This paper examines international relations as perceived by the public in their social media conversations. It examines over 1.8 billion Facebook postings in English and 51 million Chinese posts on Weibo, to reveal the relations among nations as expressed in social media conversations. It argues that social media represent a transnational electronic public sphere, in which public discussions reveal characteristics of international relations as perceived by a foreign public. The findings show that the international relations in social media postings match the core-peripheral structure proposed in the World Systems Theory. Additionally, the relations are associated with the amount of news coverage and public attention a country receives. Overall, the study demonstrates the value of webometric data in revealing how international relations are perceived by average citizens.

Forecasting the Potential Impact Viral Outbreaks will Have on the United States Tourism Industry

Forecasting the Potential Impact Viral Outbreaks will Have on the United States Tourism Industry Melanie Grand Abstract One of the biggest challenges facing the United States tourism industry will be the threat of Emerging Infectious Disease (EID) outbreaks, primarily those caused by viruses. Since most viral outbreaks originate in other parts of the world, the top Ten U.S. Cities welcoming international travelers could be immediately impacted. The potential fear factor/avoidance response of customers leading to cancellations of travel is primarily influenced by the severity of the symptoms and the mode of transmission by specific viruses. The amount of news coverage also effect show the public perceives potential hazards. City visitor bureaus and tourism industry leaders must be prepared with proactive containment procedures to minimize damages, both real and imagined. Full Text: PDF DOI: 10.15640/jthm.v4n1a1

The Role of Practical Advice in Bioterrorism News Coverage

This study examined the role of crisis advice appearing in US news coverage of the 2001 anthrax attacks. Coverage of any crisis can spark public outrage, including fear, speculation, and contradictory or confusing evidence, especially when the stories do not contain practical advice. Five coders analyzed 833 news stories from 272 major US newspapers, the Associated Press, National Public Radio, and 4 major US television networks. Practical advice appeared in only a quarter of the stories, even though practical advice for self-protection was mentioned 3 times more often than the vague advice that simply advised people not to panic. Public health officials provided the most practical advice, while scientists provided the least practical advice. Stories containing practical advice also provided more elucidating information, explaining why the threat was low, reducible, treatable, and detectable. Over the 3 phases of the anthrax crisis, an inverse relationship appeared between the amount of news coverage containing practical advice compared to "outrage rhetoric." Stories mentioned practical advice more often during the post-impact phase than earlier in the crisis. Elucidating, explanatory advice emphasized actions, risk comparisons, and tradeoffs. The findings indicate that when journalists use credible sources to provide practical advice and avoid speculation, their coverage can prevent the spread of misinformation and confusion during a bioterror attack. Also, journalists should provide context and sourcing when discussing advice during the outbreak and impact phases of the crisis, because these explanations could counteract outrage and threat distortion.

Issue obtrusiveness and negative bias: exploring the moderating factors for asymmetric news coverage of the economy

This study investigates whether the negative asymmetry in economic news coverage is influenced according to the obtrusiveness of an issue. The numbers of positive and negative economic news articles in two South Korean newspapers were compared to the actual economic situations. Consumer prices/unemployment and the gross domestic product/trade balance were studied as obtrusive issues and as unobtrusive issues, respectively. As a result, the obtrusive issues showed typical asymmetry through which negative changes were followed by a significantly greater amount of news coverage, while positive changes were not paid attention to by the news media. In the case of the unobtrusive issues, the newspapers followed neither positive nor negative economic changes. Only one newspaper covered one of the unobtrusive issues, the trade balance, in an asymmetric way. The investigation of the spectrum of journalistic attention and examination of moderating factors for journalistic asymmetry is discussed.

10대암 조발생률과 신문 보도량의 비교: 3대 일간지 보도(1990년~2010년)를 중심으로

【Objectives: The public relies on the news media to understand health risks. To examine the surveillance function of Korean health journalism, this study compared the rank-order of the 10 most frequently diagnosed cancers with that of the 10 cancers most frequently covered by three major Korean newspapers. Methods: News stories published between 1999 and 2010 by the Chosun-Ilbo, Joong-Ang-Ilbo, and Dong-A-Ilbo were examined. Data on cancer incidence were collected using the epidemiological data published by a governmental public health institution. To compare the level of the crude rates and the amount of news coverage, rank-order correlation tests and regression analyses were employed. Results: A reduction in the rank-ordered correlation coefficient was observed despite an increase in the overall number of cancer news stories released. The significance of the correlation disappeared after 2006. The big difference of the rank order between the crude rate and the amount of news coverage was observed in the cancer of breast, uteri, thyroid, and gallbladder/biliary. Finally, the three newspapers did not follow the amount change in stomach, lung, liver, and uterine cervix cancer. The four cancers' rank orders of crude rate were lowering, signifying a reduction of the comparative dangerousness of the four cancers. Conclusions: The news media's customization of news content and the negative bias in journalism are suggested as possible influences on the news media's inaccurate representation of cancer risk.】

Telling your own bad news: Eliot Spitzer and a test of the stealing thunder strategy

This study explored the concept of stealing thunder, or telling your own bad news. Unlike previous research which used surveys and experiments, this study examined actual news coverage following crises that involved individuals. One case study compared media coverage of two New York governors while the second case study compared media coverage of a high profile athlete and a late night talk show host. In each of the two studies, one of the individuals in crisis stole thunder from reporters by revealing negative information before the media did; while the other person in crisis engaged in silence and allowed the media to break the story. Results indicate there may be an association between stealing thunder and the amount of news coverage one receives. Both studies found that the source who stole thunder received considerably less news coverage than the source who did not. Additionally, results from both studies showed that stealing thunder was associated with more positively framed stories and headlines and fewer negative media frames.

Presidential Policy Initiatives: How the Public Learns about State of the Union Proposals from the Mass Media

Media coverage of State of the Union proposals increases public knowledge on presidential policy initiatives, especially among individuals who follow news coverage. These estimates are based on within‐survey/within‐subjects comparisons of answers to factual questions for respondents who are simultaneously unexposed and exposed to media coverage on the same issue. In this powerful but underused design, individuals serve as counterfactuals for themselves, holding constant all relevant observed and unobserved characteristics. The findings are based on statistical analyses of data from four national surveys conducted since the late 1990s covering a range of topics from health care to Social Security reform. Watching or listening to the address directly does not appreciably affect knowledge once control variables are added for whether individuals follow news coverage of the speech, the amount of news coverage, and the interaction of these two factors.

Network News Coverage of Breast Cancer, 1974 TO 2003

This study content analyzed 602 news story abstracts on breast cancer from the three major TV networks during the past three decades (1974 to 2003). The amount of news coverage on breast cancer increased during the time period. Some topics, such as prevention and treatment, increased significantly, whereas other issues, such as surgery and celebrities, decreased. The use of thematic frames and discussion of research developments increased across time, whereas other characteristics of the coverage did not change, such as the dominant citation of medical doctors as sources.

How Newspapers Cover Presidential Nomination Acceptance Addresses

The role of presidential nomination conventions has changed over time, from selecting to anointing the party's nominee for the presidency. The amount of news coverage has decreased as the suspense surrounding the identity of the nominee disappeared. Nevertheless, nomination acceptance addresses are watched by millions. Approximately one-quarter of the electorate decide their presidential vote during the conventions1 and the candidates' acceptance addresses are the convention's climax.2Many others do not watch the speeches themselves; they learn about it via other channels and those who do watch may have their impressions of the candidates altered by later news accounts. The question of how accurately newspapers report on these campaign events has yet to be addressed. We know that campaign coverage focuses on the following:...the strategic game played by the candidates in their pursuit of the presidency, thereby de-emphasizing the questions of national policy and leadership.3Farnsworth and Lichter reported that horse race coverage increased from 58 percent of stories in 1988 to 71 percent in 2000. Jamieson, Waldman and Devitt observed:...in every presidential general election since 1960 reliance on news reports for information about the campaign would lead one to conclude that it contained a far higher level of attack than was in fact the case.5However, no research has investigated acceptance addresses to see how well this generalization applies in this message form. Nor has research investigated whether news reports of acceptances accurately reflect the topics (policy, character) of these speeches.Theoretical FrameworkThe functional theory of political campaign discourse holds that campaign discourse is instrumental rather than consummatory.6 Because a vote is basically a choice between two or more competing candidates, voting decisions can be seen as a judgment of which candidate is preferable. Accordingly, a candidate's goal is to persuade enough voters that he or she is preferable to other candidates for office. This goal is accomplished through messages, which can enact one of three functions. First, candidates may acclaim their own virtues.7 They may acclaim their desirable policy positions (past accomplishments, future plans or goals) or their positive characteristics (personal qualities, leadership abilities or ideals). second, candidates can attack an opponent. Attacks may also address alleged weaknesses or liabilities in an opponent's policy or character, therefore making the target appear less desirable to voters. Third, when candidates are subjected to attacks, they may defend against accusations. If a candidate can dissipate an attack, the candidates' lost desirability should be restored.For example, in the 2000 election, Gov. George W. Bush used this acclaim in his acceptance address:No one in America should have to pay more than a third of their income to thefederalgovernment, so we will reduce tax rates for everyone in every bracket.This proposal is likely to appeal to many voters, increasing Bush's desirability. Attacks also occur in these speeches. Vice President Al Gore's acceptance asserted that Bush's tax cut would benefit the wealthy at the expense of others. This attack could diminish Bush's desirability for voters who did not favor tax cuts that benefit the rich. Defenses are rare but do occur in acceptances. In 1996, for instance, Dole responded to accusations that he was a compromiser, one who lacked principles:And to those who believe that I live and breathe compromise, I say that in politics, honorable compromise is no sin; it is what protects us from absolutism and intolerance.This utterance rejects this criticism. If accepted by the audience, this defense should help restore some or all of the desirability lost from the attack.These three functions can occur on two discrete topics: policy and character. Gore discussed successes of the Clinton/Gore administration:Instead of the biggest deficits in history, we now have the biggest surpluses, the highest home ownership ever, the lowest inflation in a generation, and instead of losing jobs, we now have 22 million good new jobs, higher family incomes. …

Cults and Sects and Doomsday Groups, Oh My: Media Treatment of Religion on the Eve of the Millennium

Recognition that religion is now more newsworthy than at any time in postwar American history has increased both the salience and amount of news coverage devoted to it in major news organizations. However, religious elites on the one hand and religion journalists and secular scholars who have studied religion journalism on the other offer strikingly different evaluations of the degree to which this coverage maintains a neutral and unbiased stance towards different religious groups. Does news coverage of religion or religious groups at the millennium meet this basic criterion of neutral and unbiased description? This article reports empirical findings from a content analysis of newspaper and wire service coverage of stories involving preparations for the approach of the millennium by religious groups. Our findings show that more mainstream religious groups are typically described in neutral or favorable terms, while new religious movements are consistently described in pejorative language. This bias against new religious movements is troubling because the media can have a profoundly negative influence on the perception of religious group members by outsiders, the self-image of the groups themselves, and the direction that events ultimately take.

Winst levert meer op dan geld alleen: een onderzoek naar de relatie tussen de economische performance van bedrijven en de berichtgeving in Nederlandse dagbladen

Content analyses of articles in Dutch newspapers show that company profits are related to news coverage. The more the figures distinguish from those of other companies (in a positive or negative way) the more news coverage a company gets. Bigger profits lead to more positive news coverage of a company. The three other variables in this research model, stock value, number of employees and exchange rate were in no way correlated to both the amount of news coverage and the way in which newspapers write about a company. Companies who want to have a frequent media coverage better make a loss, because a loss leads to a chain of articles during a certain period of time.

Towards a more representative and effective security council

This paper examines international relations as perceived by the public in their social media conversations. It examines over 1.8 billion Facebook postings in English and 51 million Chinese posts on Weibo, to reveal the relations among nations as expressed in social media conversations. It argues that social media represent a transnational electronic public sphere, in which public discussions reveal characteristics of international relations as perceived by a foreign public. The findings show that the international relations in social media postings match the core-peripheral structure proposed in the World Systems Theory. Additionally, the relations are associated with the amount of news coverage and public attention a country receives. Overall, the study demonstrates the value of webometric data in revealing how international relations are perceived by average citizens.