Communication, mainstream media, and Twitter : a summative content analysis of the concepts surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic during 2020

Ray Archee

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Abstract

For most of 2020, the entire world was subjected to daily breaking news, television forums, health announcements and references to risk about the coronavirus. Australians have been varyingly warned, given instructions, locked down, and unlocked down. Rates of infection, death tolls, social restrictions and vaccines were major topics of conversation with people from all walks of life. The aim of this paper is to identify and explain the main concepts on Twitter surrounding the pandemic during its peak in Australia. Using English language text data surrounding the coronavirus from the Twitter platform, the most popular themes are identified from April to September 2020. Summative content analysis of the data is accomplished using Voyant-tools software for each month. The main conceptual contexts are then discussed and interpreted in terms of the corpus, mainstream news media analysis and relevant scholarly research findings.
Original languageEnglish
Number of pages19
JournalGlobal Media Journal: Australian Edition
Volume15
Issue number1
Publication statusPublished - 2021

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