Chinese social media coverage tendency on Fire God Hospital (Huoshenshan) by Mengrui Li

Chinese social media coverage tendency on Fire God Hospital (Huoshenshan) by Mengrui Li https://padlet.com/Mary666/kd4xrc9qon9nc3mt What are the most dominant sources and subjects in communication? en-us 2020-10-27 03:52:53 UTC 2025-11-16 16:12:49 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f933.png Background Mary666 https://padlet.com/Mary666/kd4xrc9qon9nc3mt/wish/864331849 The communication of news in social media has been extensively studied. There has been a long-lasting debate on the role of social media editors in a crisis when some scholars deem editor as a 'watchdog' on government (Ali, 2013; cited by Ewart & McLean, 2019) while other think editors should advocate for government policy and response, disseminating positive emotion and creating a sense of community.(Veil, 2012; Luan & Zhang, 2020; Lu & Wu, 2020) When COVID-19 broke out earlier this year, Chinese social media coverage of public crisis management in Wuhan attracted wide attention and controversy. There have been few studies comparing the roles played by these social media agencies in crisis reporting.

Therefore, I will use content analysis to examine three representative Chinese social media outlets on their subjects and news sources in Wuhan COVID-19 crisis handling, casting light on the media's reporting tendency from a quantitative perspective.

]]> 2020-10-27 04:05:33 UTC https://padlet.com/Mary666/kd4xrc9qon9nc3mt/wish/864331849 Research Questions Mary666 https://padlet.com/Mary666/kd4xrc9qon9nc3mt/wish/864334837 What subject was most widely followed in media coverage of Wuhan hospital on the Chinese social platform Weibo?

Among all the news posts, which sources were represented?

]]> 2020-10-27 04:07:43 UTC https://padlet.com/Mary666/kd4xrc9qon9nc3mt/wish/864334837 Methodology Mary666 https://padlet.com/Mary666/kd4xrc9qon9nc3mt/wish/864335601 Quantitative content analysis will be adopted to examine posts under the Wuhan Hospitals issue. Posts of CCTV News, People's Daily, and Cover News will be collected from the Weibo information search page.

Population: 152 posts include the terms "Fire God Hospital" or "Wuhan hospital" in the text or hashtag, posted 25 January - 10 February 2020.

Sample: Simple random sampling of 15 of each news outlet. The unit is per post. I first read the post and determined if it fell under the nine subject categories and six source categories(based on interpretation patterns constructed in a food crisis report)(Shan et al. ,2014).

]]> 2020-10-27 04:08:14 UTC https://padlet.com/Mary666/kd4xrc9qon9nc3mt/wish/864335601 Findings and results Mary666 https://padlet.com/Mary666/kd4xrc9qon9nc3mt/wish/864345419 1.Social media editors' choice of stories subjects is tendentious. The most widely followed topic is government handling of the crisis, how do they organize the rescue(12 posts，27%). 24 posts fall under the social topic category. The human interest story, with 11 posts, is the largest number under the social topic. Instead, the three media have barely touched on how the technology and equipment will keep medical staff safe and treat patients. Interviews with hospital construction plans and techniques were also rare in People's Daily and Cover News. It suggests that the media framed the panic-building in terms of social and political coverage, rather than placing it in the context of a public health crisis.]]> 2020-10-27 04:14:22 UTC https://padlet.com/Mary666/kd4xrc9qon9nc3mt/wish/864345419 Findings and results Mary666 https://padlet.com/Mary666/kd4xrc9qon9nc3mt/wish/864351891 2.News sources are mainly from journalists in the three media (21 posts, 47%). Among them, CCTV has its TV station, so it is more inclined to produce its programs and release them on Weibo. Cover News has no correspondents on the front line in this report, using sources from the other two agencies. Surprisingly, grassroots source comes in second with 10 posts (22%). Under this category, the content is all re-creation of the construction site: Netizen use drones to shoot time-lapse videos or caricature construction crews with nicknames. Editors are full of praise for the netizen's behavior without single criticism among all the grassroots-sourced posts. ]]> 2020-10-27 04:18:19 UTC https://padlet.com/Mary666/kd4xrc9qon9nc3mt/wish/864351891 What is Fire God Hospital? Mary666 https://padlet.com/Mary666/kd4xrc9qon9nc3mt/wish/864354541 2020-10-27 04:19:57 UTC https://padlet.com/Mary666/kd4xrc9qon9nc3mt/wish/864354541 Limitation Mary666 https://padlet.com/Mary666/kd4xrc9qon9nc3mt/wish/864371790 The format of the news product plays an important role in agenda-setting. Although this study makes a horizontal social media account analysis of several news agencies, it is by no means representative of the reporting preferences in their printed editions.
Also, the report on Fire God Hospital cannot represent all media reports on COVID-19 in Wuhan.]]> 2020-10-27 04:30:18 UTC https://padlet.com/Mary666/kd4xrc9qon9nc3mt/wish/864371790 References Mary666 https://padlet.com/Mary666/kd4xrc9qon9nc3mt/wish/864379607 _{Ali, Z.S. (2013). Media, myths and realities in natural disasters.}_{European Journal of Business and Social Science,}_{2(1), 125–133.}

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]]> 2020-10-27 04:35:18 UTC https://padlet.com/Mary666/kd4xrc9qon9nc3mt/wish/864379607 Mary666 https://padlet.com/Mary666/kd4xrc9qon9nc3mt/wish/864411332 2020-10-27 04:53:39 UTC https://padlet.com/Mary666/kd4xrc9qon9nc3mt/wish/864411332 Grassroot re-creation on Fire God and Thor God Mary666 https://padlet.com/Mary666/kd4xrc9qon9nc3mt/wish/864469103 2020-10-27 05:27:04 UTC https://padlet.com/Mary666/kd4xrc9qon9nc3mt/wish/864469103