Bird flu hype The spread of a disease outbreak through the media and Internet discussion groups
Bird flu hype The spread of a disease outbreak through the media and Internet discussion groups
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禽流感炒作 通过媒体和互联网讨论组传播疾病爆发
DOI：
10.1075/jlp.9.3.03hel
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发表时间：
2010
影响因子：
1.3
通讯作者：
Hellsten I
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作者：
Hellsten I
禽流感，又称禽流感，已经引起了公众和全球的广泛关注。H5N1禽流感病毒于1997年首次在香港被记录为感染人类，许多感染者随后死于由家禽传播给人类的病毒。然而，在2004年左右，一场关于禽流感的公开辩论开始了。本文研究了从1997年到2006年在医学期刊、报纸和公共论坛上围绕禽流感的公众辩论的炒作。本文重点关注已发表文本频率的发展以及三个数据库中使用的术语。量化结果将伴随着对辩论中主要分专题的解释性解释。这些（初步）结果有助于研究更普遍地处理炒作的出现和公共辩论的传播。
Bird flu, otherwise known as avian influenza, has attracted widespread public and global attention. The H5N1 avian influenza virus was first documented as infecting humans in Hong Kong in 1997 and many of those infected died subsequently from the virus that had been transmitted from poultry to humans. It took several years, however, before a hyped up type of public debate about bird flu began in around 2004. This article examines the hype surrounding public debates about bird flu in medical journals, newspapers and public discussion forums from 1997 to 2006. The article focuses on the development of the frequencies of published texts, and the terminology used in the three databases. The quantitative results will be accompanied by a hermeneutic interpretation of the main sub-topics within the debates. These (preliminary) results contribute to research dealing with the emergence of hypes and the spread of public debates more generally.