COVID-19 vaccines and vaccinations coverage on news portals: Framing, Tone, and Source Analysis

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2024-03-19 DOI:10.1177/20570473231225299

John Demuyakor, Stevens Justice Avenyo, Adwoa Sikayena Amankwah

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Abstract

A comparative quantitative content analysis was adopted to explore the frames, tones, and information sources for the coverage of COVID-19 vaccines and vaccination in four countries in Africa. The news portals and countries for this study were purposively sampled based on the World Press Freedom Index released by Reporters Without Borders for 2021. Namibia, South Africa, Ghana, and Botswana are among the top ten countries in Africa with the best Media Freedoms. The findings showed that Ghana’s news portals’ coverage of COVID-19 vaccines and vaccination campaigns used mainly unofficial sources in the coverage of COVID-19 vaccines and vaccination stories, whereas Botswana, Namibia, and South African media used official sources. Other findings show that Ghana’s news portals covered COVID-19 vaccines and vaccination stories in a negative tone and employed conflict and economic consequence frames. Botswana, Namibia, and South African news portals, however, adopted neutral and positive tones and framed them according to human interest, responsibility, and morality. The results suggest that the text of the news articles from the four African countries’ coverage of the COVID-19 vaccines and vaccination adopted different generic framing styles, and the tones were predominantly a mixture of positive, neutral, and negative.

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COVID-19 新闻门户网站上的疫苗和接种报道：框架、语气和来源分析

本研究采用比较定量内容分析法来探讨非洲四个国家对 COVID-19 疫苗和疫苗接种的报道框架、语调和信息来源。本研究的新闻门户网站和国家是根据无国界记者组织发布的 2021 年世界新闻自由指数有目的地抽取的。纳米比亚、南非、加纳和博茨瓦纳是非洲媒体自由度最高的前十个国家。调查结果显示，加纳新闻门户网站在报道 COVID-19 疫苗和疫苗接种活动时主要使用非官方消息来源，而博茨瓦纳、纳米比亚和南非媒体则使用官方消息来源。其他调查结果显示，加纳的新闻门户网站在报道 COVID-19 疫苗和疫苗接种时语气消极，并采用了冲突和经济后果的框架。而博茨瓦纳、纳米比亚和南非的新闻门户网站则采用了中性和正面的语气，并以人类利益、责任和道德为框架。结果表明，四个非洲国家关于 COVID-19 疫苗和疫苗接种的新闻报道文本采用了不同的通用框架风格，其基调主要是正面、中性和负面的混合。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

期刊介绍： Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance. Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.