Cross-cultural analysis of the American, German, and Japanese newspaper coverage on COVID-19
Cross-cultural analysis of the American, German, and Japanese newspaper coverage on COVID-19
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美国、德国和日本报纸对 COVID-19 报道的跨文化分析
DOI：
10.1109/ies55876.2022.9888753
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发表时间：
2022
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通讯作者：
Yukiko Sato
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作者：
Yukiko Sato;Stefan Brueckner;Yukiko Sato
随着有关COVID-19的新闻报道不断增加，有必要分析这些报道，以批判性地审视大众媒体在疫情期间的角色。这项跨文化研究对美国、德国和日本的高质量报纸对COVID-19的报道进行了定性分析和定量比较。本研究采用主题分析的方法，通过建立一个包含133个代码的码本，对117篇报纸文章进行分析。调查结果显示，各国媒体在疫情初期都低估了疫情的风险，同时也关注人们对疫情的恐惧。美国和日本的报纸倾向于批评中国政府，而德国报纸上的文章似乎批评口罩的使用。本研究的方法论强调了定性分析和定量比较相结合来识别和跨文化比较媒体文本中难以捉摸的主题的优点。
As the news coverage on COVID-19 continues to accumulate, there is a need to analyze this coverage to critically examine the role of the mass media during the pandemic. This cross-cultural study conducts a qualitative analysis and quantitative comparison of the American, German, and Japanese quality newspaper coverage of COVID-19. Following a thematic analysis approach, this study analyzed 117 newspaper articles through the creation of a codebook with 133 codes. Results show how the media in all countries underrated the risk of the pandemic in its initial stage, while also focusing on people’s fear of the pandemic. In American and Japanese newspapers exists a tendency for criticism against the Chinese government, while German newspaper articles appear critical of the use of face masks. The methodological approach of this study highlights the merits of combining qualitative analysis and quantitative comparison to identify and cross-culturally compare elusive themes in media texts.