TY - JOUR
T1 - Who Sets the Agenda? the Dynamic Agenda Setting of the Wildlife Issue on Social Media
AU - Wang, Xiaohui
AU - Chen, Liang
AU - Shi, Jingyuan
AU - Tang, Hongjie
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by Chinese National Funding of Social Sciences: [Grant Number 19CXW033].
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2023/4/3
Y1 - 2023/4/3
N2 - Following the COVID-19’s outbreak in China, wildlife-related issues such as wildlife management and conservation made headlines around the world due to the potential zoonotic nature of the newly discovered coronavirus. In our study, we examined the dynamic interaction of the news agenda and public agenda concerning wildlife-related issues on social media after COVID-19’s outbreak. Using big data analytics, we automatically extracted the agendas’ attributes and networks from 110,549 social media posts made from January 1 to April 8, 2020, and investigated the effect of second- and third-level dynamic agenda setting in a time series analysis. Our findings suggest that the agenda-setting effect of wildlife-related issues on social media was not a single-step, unidirectional action but a reciprocal, dynamic interaction constantly constructed by news outlets and the general public.
AB - Following the COVID-19’s outbreak in China, wildlife-related issues such as wildlife management and conservation made headlines around the world due to the potential zoonotic nature of the newly discovered coronavirus. In our study, we examined the dynamic interaction of the news agenda and public agenda concerning wildlife-related issues on social media after COVID-19’s outbreak. Using big data analytics, we automatically extracted the agendas’ attributes and networks from 110,549 social media posts made from January 1 to April 8, 2020, and investigated the effect of second- and third-level dynamic agenda setting in a time series analysis. Our findings suggest that the agenda-setting effect of wildlife-related issues on social media was not a single-step, unidirectional action but a reciprocal, dynamic interaction constantly constructed by news outlets and the general public.
KW - big data analytics
KW - COVID-19
KW - Dynamic agenda setting
KW - social media
KW - wildlife-related issues
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85104324263&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/17524032.2021.1901760
DO - 10.1080/17524032.2021.1901760
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85104324263
SN - 1752-4032
VL - 17
SP - 245
EP - 262
JO - Environmental Communication
JF - Environmental Communication
IS - 3
ER -
