scholarly journals Obesity Communication with Etiology and Disease: Automated Content Analysis of Digital Chinese News in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, 2010-2019 (Preprint)

10.2196/26660 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Chang ◽  
Matthew Tingchi Liu ◽  
Wen Jia
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Automated Content Analysis

Obesity Communication with Etiology and Disease: Automated Content Analysis of Digital News, 2010-2019 (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Chang ◽  
Matthew Tingchi Liu ◽  
Wen Jia
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Personal Attributes ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Obesity Epidemic ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Journalism Studies ◽  
Automated Content Analysis ◽  
Digital News ◽  
Online Texts

BACKGROUND The fact that the number of population suffering from obesity has increased worldwide calls into question on media efforts for informing the public. This research attempts to determine the ways in which the mainstream digital news covers the etiology of obesity and diseases associated with the burden of obesity. OBJECTIVE The dual objectives of this study are to obtain an understanding of what the news says about obesity and to explore meanings in data by extending preconceived grounded theory. METHODS We propose an automatic content analysis tool, DiVoMiner. This computer-aided platform is designed to organize and filter large sets of data based on patterns of word occurrence and latent topics. Another programming language Python 3 is employed to explore connections and patterns created by the aggregated interactions. The 10 years of news text compared the development of obesity coverage and its potential impact on perception in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Digital news stories covering obesity along with affliction and consequence inferences in nine newspapers were sampled. RESULTS A total of 30,968 news stories were identified with increasing attention since 2016. The highest intensity of newspaper coverage of obesity communication was found in Taiwan. Overall, a stronger focus on two shared causative attributes of obesity are on stress (n = 4,483, 33.0%) and tobacco use (n = 3143, 23.2.0%). Similar to the previous studies, the discourse between the obesity epidemic and personal afflictions is the most emphasized approach (n = 13,587, 80.0%). Additionally, the burden of obesity and cardiovascular diseases are implied the most (n = 8,477, 42.2%) despite the aggregated interaction of edge centrality shows the highest link between the use of “obesity” and “cancer”. The discussion indicated that the inclination of blaming personal attributes for health afflictions potentially limits social and governmental responsibility for addressing this issue. The strategy of various obesity communication for news gatekeepers, health communication researchers, and policy-makers are noted. CONCLUSIONS This study goes beyond traditional journalism studies by extending the framework of computational and customizable online texts. This could set a norm for researchers and practitioners who work on the data projects largely for a different and innovative attempt. However, challenges of methods should be faced, including the lack of standards of automated content measures. CLINICALTRIAL not available.

scholarly journals Coverage of Protest Stories in Tweets of International News Agencies: A comparative Analysis on Kashmir and Hong Kong Protests

2021 ◽  
Vol Volume 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 369-379
Author(s):  
Raza Waqas Ahmad ◽  
Shahbaz Aslam ◽  
Muhammad Usman Saeed
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
International News ◽  
Indian Government ◽  
News Agencies ◽  
Vested Interests ◽  
Information And Communication

In April 2019 Hong Kong government introduced an extradition bill that would allow extraditions to mainland China. The introduction of the extradition bill resulted in an eruption of mass level peaceful protests across Hong Kong, which turned out to be more violent later on. On the other side, the protests in Kashmir erupted out after the Modi led Indian government revoked the special autonomous status of Kashmir on the 5th of August, 2019. A sudden and momentous decision to eliminate article 370 enrage the Kashmiri people being deprived of their rights resulting in massive protest across the valley. In the context of modern information and communication systems, the present study is designed to examine the protest paradigm in the international news coverage of Kashmir and Hong Kong's recent protests in tweets of international news agencies. Theoretically, the study takes roots from protest paradigm and international news flow. Methodologically, we employed content analysis method. Firstly, content analysis of purposively selected tweets of four international news agencies, AFP, AP, Reuters, and Xinhua, was performed. Secondly, we used visualization technique to examine the framing of international protests by employing news framing, and protest paradigm. Findings reveal that Protest paradigm is supported in context of international disputes due to the vested interests of global powers as well as the dominated agenda of international news agencies.

Trade Ties between Hong Kong and Mainland China

Asian Survey ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 820-839
Author(s):  
Patrick Yeung
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Mainland China

scholarly journals The Impact of “Manipulated News” on Student Attitudes and Perceptions and Their Participation in the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 205630512110197
Author(s):  
Chesca Ka Po Wong ◽  
Runping Zhu ◽  
Richard Krever ◽  
Alfred Siu Choi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Survey Research ◽  
Student Attitudes ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Attitudes And Perceptions ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Potential Use

While the impact of fake news on viewers, particularly marginalized media users, has been a cause of growing concern, there has been little attention paid to the phenomenon of deliberately “manipulated” news published on social media by mainstream news publishers. Using qualitative content analysis and quantitative survey research, this study showed that consciously biased animated news videos released in the midst of the Umbrella Movement protests in Hong Kong impacted on both the attitudes of students and their participation in the protests. The findings raise concerns over potential use of the format by media owners to promote their preferred ideologies.

scholarly journals Characterization of a Human H5N1 Influenza A Virus Isolated in 2003

2005 ◽  
Vol 79 (15) ◽  
pp. 9926-9932 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyoko Shinya ◽  
Masato Hatta ◽  
Shinya Yamada ◽  
Ayato Takada ◽  
Shinji Watanabe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Avian Influenza ◽  
Influenza A Virus ◽  
Influenza A ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Virus Infections ◽  
Influenza A Viruses ◽  
H5n1 Avian Influenza Virus ◽  
H5n1 Influenza ◽  
Avian Influenza A Virus

ABSTRACT In 2003, H5N1 avian influenza virus infections were diagnosed in two Hong Kong residents who had visited the Fujian province in mainland China, affording us the opportunity to characterize one of the viral isolates, A/Hong Kong/213/03 (HK213; H5N1). In contrast to H5N1 viruses isolated from humans during the 1997 outbreak in Hong Kong, HK213 retained several features of aquatic bird viruses, including the lack of a deletion in the neuraminidase stalk and the absence of additional oligosaccharide chains at the globular head of the hemagglutinin molecule. It demonstrated weak pathogenicity in mice and ferrets but caused lethal infection in chickens. The original isolate failed to produce disease in ducks but became more pathogenic after five passages. Taken together, these findings portray the HK213 isolate as an aquatic avian influenza A virus without the molecular changes associated with the replication of H5N1 avian viruses in land-based poultry such as chickens. This case challenges the view that adaptation to land-based poultry is a prerequisite for the replication of aquatic avian influenza A viruses in humans.

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