Media power,the impact that media have on public opinion and perspectives,plays a significant role in maintaining internal stability,exerting external influence,and shaping international dynamics for nations/regions.H...Media power,the impact that media have on public opinion and perspectives,plays a significant role in maintaining internal stability,exerting external influence,and shaping international dynamics for nations/regions.However,prior research has primarily concentrated on news content and reporting time,resulting in limitations in evaluating media power.To more accurately assess media power,we use news content,news reporting time,and news emotion simultaneously to explore the emotional contagion between media.We use emotional contagion to measure the mutual influence between media and regard the media with greater impact as having stronger media power.We propose a framework called Measuring Media Power via Emotional Contagion(MMPEC)to capture emotional contagion among media,enabling a more accurate assessment of media power at the media and national/regional levels.MMPEC also interprets experimental results through correlation and causality analyses,ensuring explainability.Case analyses confirm the higher accuracy of MMPEC compared to other baseline models,as demonstrated in the context of COVID-19-related news,yielding compelling and interesting insights.展开更多
As one of the early COVID-19 epidemic outbreak areas,China attracted the global news media’s attention at the beginning of 2020.During the epidemic period,Chinese people united and actively fought against the epidemi...As one of the early COVID-19 epidemic outbreak areas,China attracted the global news media’s attention at the beginning of 2020.During the epidemic period,Chinese people united and actively fought against the epidemic.However,in the eyes of the international public,the situation reported about China is not optimistic.To better understand how the international public portrays China,especially during the epidemic,we present a case study with big data technology.We aim to answer three questions:(1)What has the international media focused on during the COVID-19 epidemic period?(2)What is the media’s tone when they report China?(3)What is the media’s attitude when talking about China?In detail,we crawled more than 280000 pieces of news from 57 mainstream media agencies in 22 countries and made some interesting observations.For example,international media paid more attention to Chinese livelihood during the COVID-19 epidemic period.In March and April,“progress of Chinese vaccines,”“specific drugs and treatments,”and“virus outbreak in U.S.”became the media’s most common topics.In terms of news attitude,Cuba,Malaysia,and Venezuela had a positive attitude toward China,while France,Canada,and the United Kingdom had a negative attitude.Our study can help understand China’s image in the eyes of the international media and provide a sound basis for image analysis.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.62127808).
文摘Media power,the impact that media have on public opinion and perspectives,plays a significant role in maintaining internal stability,exerting external influence,and shaping international dynamics for nations/regions.However,prior research has primarily concentrated on news content and reporting time,resulting in limitations in evaluating media power.To more accurately assess media power,we use news content,news reporting time,and news emotion simultaneously to explore the emotional contagion between media.We use emotional contagion to measure the mutual influence between media and regard the media with greater impact as having stronger media power.We propose a framework called Measuring Media Power via Emotional Contagion(MMPEC)to capture emotional contagion among media,enabling a more accurate assessment of media power at the media and national/regional levels.MMPEC also interprets experimental results through correlation and causality analyses,ensuring explainability.Case analyses confirm the higher accuracy of MMPEC compared to other baseline models,as demonstrated in the context of COVID-19-related news,yielding compelling and interesting insights.
文摘As one of the early COVID-19 epidemic outbreak areas,China attracted the global news media’s attention at the beginning of 2020.During the epidemic period,Chinese people united and actively fought against the epidemic.However,in the eyes of the international public,the situation reported about China is not optimistic.To better understand how the international public portrays China,especially during the epidemic,we present a case study with big data technology.We aim to answer three questions:(1)What has the international media focused on during the COVID-19 epidemic period?(2)What is the media’s tone when they report China?(3)What is the media’s attitude when talking about China?In detail,we crawled more than 280000 pieces of news from 57 mainstream media agencies in 22 countries and made some interesting observations.For example,international media paid more attention to Chinese livelihood during the COVID-19 epidemic period.In March and April,“progress of Chinese vaccines,”“specific drugs and treatments,”and“virus outbreak in U.S.”became the media’s most common topics.In terms of news attitude,Cuba,Malaysia,and Venezuela had a positive attitude toward China,while France,Canada,and the United Kingdom had a negative attitude.Our study can help understand China’s image in the eyes of the international media and provide a sound basis for image analysis.
