Analysis of Changes in Reporting Patterns of Major Newspapers and Broadcasters Nationwide related to ‘Autism’

The purpose of this study is to analyze and present the results of the changes in the reporting pattern of media(major newspapers and broadcasters nationwide) related to ‘autism’, which has recently increased in proportion among the types of disabilities. The turning point of the change in the form of reporting set in this study is the drama “Weird Lawyer Woo Young-woo” reflected in the popularity of 2022. The main research methodologies used in this study are ‘text mining’ and 'semantic network analysis'. In this study, tried to objectively analyze using recognized analysis tools such as BIGKinds, a Korean morpheme analysis program KrKwick, a word cloud implementation site(wordcloud.kr), a semantic network analysis program Ucinet6, and a network visualization program NetDraw. The main analysis targets of this study were the titles of press articles by national newspapers and broadcasters, including the term ‘autism’ for one year, in 2021 and 2022. The results of this study include a significant increase and change in the number of articles in the media related to 'autism' and keyword trends in 2021 and 2022, changes in keywords with high frequency of occurrence in the titles of articles in the media related to 'autism', and the degree of connection of key words by year Changes in centrality values and network diagrams were analyzed and presented. The results of this study are expected to be reflected in the development of educational materials for improving disability awareness of researchers and related institutions related to special education and disability welfare and the policy of completing the program. In addition, related researchers and related organizations are expected to expand efforts to improve disability awareness through cooperation with national media companies