分析德媒对全球滑坡新闻的报道偏倚,揭示欧洲西部过度报道现象
How Loud Rumbles Hit Newsstands: A Data Analysis of Coverage and Spatial Bias in German News about Landslides Around the World

- 收集25年德国报纸近5.5万篇滑坡新闻,覆盖4500个事件
- 发现南欧和西欧滑坡被严重高报,与实际风险不匹配
- 为灾害媒体关注不平等研究提供数据基础,适合传播学学者
滑坡常因破坏性与致命性登上新闻头条。新闻是构建或丰富灾害数据库、开展媒体关注度动态研究的重要信息源。为此需对新闻数据进行筛选、地理定位与验证。本文聚焦德国报纸对全球滑坡事件的报道情况,分析了25年间近5.5万篇新闻文章所涵盖的4500个事件,将其与各国滑坡易发性外部指标对比,发现南欧与西欧滑坡存在显著过度报道现象,为深入研究国际灾害媒体报道不平等提供了依据。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Landslides often hit newsstands due to their destructive and potentially fatal effects. News are a valuable source of information for creating or enriching disaster databases and for expediting media-based studies of the dynamics of media attention. To accomplish that, news datasets must be filtered, geolocated and validated. This paper focuses on how landslides around the world are reported in German newspapers. We analyse almost 55k news articles about 4.5k news events in a 25-year period, compare it with external measures of countries' susceptibility to landslides and provide insights, e.g. the overreporting of Southern and Western Europe, to foster further studies on inequalities in media attention to international disasters.
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