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Politicization and Polarization in COVID-19 News Coverage
This study examines the level of politicization and polarization in COVID-19 news in U.S. newspapers and televised network news from March to May 2020. Using multiple computer-assisted content analytic approaches, we find that newspaper coverage is highly politicized, network news coverage somewhat...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7447862/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1075547020950735 |
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author | Hart, P. Sol Chinn, Sedona Soroka, Stuart |
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description | This study examines the level of politicization and polarization in COVID-19 news in U.S. newspapers and televised network news from March to May 2020. Using multiple computer-assisted content analytic approaches, we find that newspaper coverage is highly politicized, network news coverage somewhat less so, and both newspaper and network news coverage are highly polarized. We find that politicians appear in newspaper coverage more frequently than scientists, whereas politicians and scientists are more equally featured in network news. We suggest that the high degree of politicization and polarization in initial COVID-19 coverage may have contributed to polarization in U.S. COVID-19 attitudes. |
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spelling | pubmed-74478622020-08-27 Politicization and Polarization in COVID-19 News Coverage Hart, P. Sol Chinn, Sedona Soroka, Stuart Sci Commun Research Note This study examines the level of politicization and polarization in COVID-19 news in U.S. newspapers and televised network news from March to May 2020. Using multiple computer-assisted content analytic approaches, we find that newspaper coverage is highly politicized, network news coverage somewhat less so, and both newspaper and network news coverage are highly polarized. We find that politicians appear in newspaper coverage more frequently than scientists, whereas politicians and scientists are more equally featured in network news. We suggest that the high degree of politicization and polarization in initial COVID-19 coverage may have contributed to polarization in U.S. COVID-19 attitudes. SAGE Publications 2020-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7447862/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1075547020950735 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Research Note Hart, P. Sol Chinn, Sedona Soroka, Stuart Politicization and Polarization in COVID-19 News Coverage |
title | Politicization and Polarization in COVID-19 News
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title_full | Politicization and Polarization in COVID-19 News
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title_fullStr | Politicization and Polarization in COVID-19 News
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title_full_unstemmed | Politicization and Polarization in COVID-19 News
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title_short | Politicization and Polarization in COVID-19 News
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title_sort | politicization and polarization in covid-19 news
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topic | Research Note |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7447862/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1075547020950735 |
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