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流行病新闻:主流新闻媒体的Facebook页面和冠状病毒危机--计算内容分析

Pandemic News: Facebook Pages of Mainstream News Media and the Coronavirus Crisis -- A Computational Content Analysis

Thorsten Quandt, Svenja Boberg, Tim Schatto-Eckrodt, Lena Frischlich

摘要:

COVID-19疫情的发展对全球新闻媒体而言是前所未有的挑战。虽然新闻报道的目的是通过设计来处理未知的事件,但动态变化的局势以如此深刻的方式影响了生活的各个方面,甚至连危机报道的常规都似乎不够。批评人士指出,新闻报道倾向于赛马报道和不加批判的报道,新闻报道过于接近官方声明,过于肯定政治决定。然而,迄今为止,缺乏关于新闻媒体在危机期间表现的经验数据。目前的研究分析了新闻媒体在冠状病毒危机早期的Facebook消息,基于2020年1月至3月的大型德国数据集。使用计算内容分析方法,达到和互动,主题结构,相关演员,负面的消息,以及捏造的新闻和阴谋论的报道进行了检查。在危机的不同阶段,Facebook近期报道的主题结构发生了变化,只有部分支持批评者的主张。最初阶段的专题范围有些不足,但后来的阶段提供了广泛的覆盖面,对冠状病毒有关的问题和社会问题。此外,新闻媒体在危机期间报道了假新闻和阴谋论,但他们始终将其置于真实的背景中,并揭穿了在公众中传播的虚假说法。虽然对危机期间新闻业表现的一些批评得到了一些实证支持,但分析没有发现系统功能失调的压倒性迹象。总的来说,新闻媒体并没有采取统一的反应,也没有报道杂乱无章、缺乏信息的大流行病新闻,但它们对危机进行了多角度的报道。

英文摘要:

The unfolding of the COVID-19 pandemic has been an unprecedented challenge for news media around the globe. While journalism is meant to process yet unknown events by design, the dynamically evolving situation affected all aspects of life in such profound ways that even the routines of crisis reporting seemed to be insufficient. Critics noted tendencies to horse-race reporting and uncritical coverage, with journalism being too close to official statements and too affirmative of political decisions. However, empirical data on the performance of journalistic news media during the crisis has been lacking thus far. The current study analyzes the Facebook messages of journalistic news media during the early Coronavirus crisis, based on a large German data set from January to March 2020. Using computational content analysis methods, reach and interactions, topical structure, relevant actors, negativity of messages, as well as the coverage of fabricated news and conspiracy theories were examined. The topical structure of the near-time Facebook coverage changed during various stages of the crisis, with just partial support for the claims of critics. The initial stages were somewhat lacking in topical breadth, but later stages offered a broad range of coverage on Corona-related issues and societal concerns. Further, journalistic media covered fake news and conspiracy theories during the crisis, but they consistently contextualized them as what they were and debunked the false claims circulating in public. While some criticism regarding the performance of journalism during the crisis received mild empirical support, the analysis did not find overwhelming signs of systemic dysfunctionalities. Overall, journalistic media did not default to a uniform reaction nor to sprawling, information-poor pandemic news, but they responded with a multi-perspective coverage of the crisis.

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