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10.3390/socsci11120556
| Title: | Agenda-Setting Dynamics during COVID-19 : Who Leads and Who Follows? |
| Authors: | Šķestere, Lāsma Darģis, Roberts Faculty of Communication |
| Keywords: | intermedia agenda-setting;Covid-19;time series analysis;social media;news media;5.8 Media and Communication;1.1. Scientific article indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus database |
| Issue Date: | 2022 |
| Citation: | Šķestere , L & Darģis , R 2022 , ' Agenda-Setting Dynamics during COVID-19 : Who Leads and Who Follows? ' , Social Sciences , vol. 11 , no. 12 , 556 . https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci11120556 |
| Abstract: | The outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) has altered the way news media and social media set their agendas. The growth of social media raises questions about its potential power to set the media agenda. We gathered social media posts and online news site articles to examine agenda-setting dynamics, aiming to explore causal relationship between news media and social media. We used a computer-assisted text analysis to discover the main topics of discussion at the first wave of the pandemic in Latvia. The results revealed that (1) statistics about the pandemic, as well as pre-vention and control measures were the main topics on social media and in online news sites, and that (2) vector autoregression models provide more empirical support for the influence of online news sites on social media than reverse. |
| Description: | Publisher Copyright: © 2022 by the authors. |
| DOI: | 10.3390/socsci11120556 |
| ISSN: | 2076-0760 |
| Appears in Collections: | Research outputs from Pure / Zinātniskās darbības rezultāti no ZDIS Pure |
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