TY - JOUR
T1 - Linking psychometric paradigm of risk and issue attention cycle: Risk information in news coverage of avian and swine influenza global outbreaks
AU - Fung, Timothy K. F.
AU - Namkoong, Kang
AU - Kim, Jiyoun
AU - Lai, Po Yan
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This study was supported by Hong Kong Baptist University, Research Committee, Initiation Grant—Faculty Niche Research Areas 2019/20 (RC-FNRA-IG/19-20/COMM/02) and Faculty Research Grant (FRG2/10-11/094). The authors would like to thank Li Yang and Zhong Li for their assistance on the preliminary data analysis.
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© The Author(s) 2022.
PY - 2022/12
Y1 - 2022/12
N2 - To examine risk characteristics of health threats during global outbreaks, this study linked the psychometric paradigm of risk and issue attention cycle to content analyze 1,626 news articles during the avian and swine influenza epidemics. The results revealed that journalists used different types of risk information, across the issue attention cycle, to emphasize the risk characteristics of each influenza: Risk characteristics of dread, catastrophic potential, and familiarity were emphasized in the waxing rather than in the waning stage of Avian influenza; in the waxing and waning stages, swine influenza was conveyed as a dreadful disease, through different risk information.
AB - To examine risk characteristics of health threats during global outbreaks, this study linked the psychometric paradigm of risk and issue attention cycle to content analyze 1,626 news articles during the avian and swine influenza epidemics. The results revealed that journalists used different types of risk information, across the issue attention cycle, to emphasize the risk characteristics of each influenza: Risk characteristics of dread, catastrophic potential, and familiarity were emphasized in the waxing rather than in the waning stage of Avian influenza; in the waxing and waning stages, swine influenza was conveyed as a dreadful disease, through different risk information.
KW - content analysis
KW - influenza
KW - news coverage
KW - psychometric paradigm of risk
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UR - https://timothyfunghkbu.short.gy/uXeLtX
U2 - 10.1177/10755470221138625
DO - 10.1177/10755470221138625
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1075-5470
VL - 44
SP - 719
EP - 758
JO - Science Communication
JF - Science Communication
IS - 6
ER -
