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

IF 4.6 Q2 MATERIALS SCIENCE, BIOMATERIALS

ACS Applied Bio Materials Pub Date : 2023-04-28 DOI:10.1111/disa.12587

Hua Guo, Jiandong Zhang, Shihui Feng, Yanli Zhou, Anrong Fan, Minhong Wang

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Abstract

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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突发公共卫生事件期间的信息传播:分析covid -19相关新闻的国际流动

当发生世界范围的突发公共卫生事件时，经常观察到媒体之间跨越国界的大规模信息交流。本研究通过分析不同层次的网络结构，识别重要节点和新闻机构之间的关系，对新冠肺炎大流行初期的全球新闻引文网络进行了调查。结果表明，新冠肺炎相关国际新闻流呈现出复杂且不平等的格局，少数国家和媒体在网络中占据突出地位，三家媒体集团在新闻传播中发挥着关键但不同的作用。受国家特点、国家间关联性、突发疫情等公共卫生风险的共同影响。从全球范围看，新冠肺炎疫情发生初期，美国、中国大陆和英国媒体在世界媒体体系内的合作中发挥了最重要的作用。

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9.40

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2.10%

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464