Graphs in the COVID-19 news: a mathematics audit of newspapers in Korea

Visual displays in the news media become critical during escalating events such as the COVID-19 pandemic, as they facilitate the communication of complex information to the public. This article investigates the use of graphs in Korea’s news media during the COVID-19 outbreak. We selected 12 dates th...

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Autores principales: Kwon, Oh Nam, Han, Chaereen, Lee, Changsuk, Lee, Kyungwon, Kim, Kyeongjun, Jo, Gyeongha, Yoon, Gangwon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7930526/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34934226
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10649-021-10029-0
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author Kwon, Oh Nam
Han, Chaereen
Lee, Changsuk
Lee, Kyungwon
Kim, Kyeongjun
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description Visual displays in the news media become critical during escalating events such as the COVID-19 pandemic, as they facilitate the communication of complex information to the public. This article investigates the use of graphs in Korea’s news media during the COVID-19 outbreak. We selected 12 dates that represent turning points in the outbreak of the disease and collected news stories including graphs from seven Korean daily newspapers issued on those dates. First, we analyzed the usage of graphs in COVID-19 news stories. Quantitative analysis of the types and frequency of graphs used in COVID-19 news stories and qualitative analysis of the content of news stories containing graphs were conducted. Second, we identified cases in which readers may be biased by the mathematical misuse of graphs in the news stories covering COVID-19. The implications of these findings for future teaching and learning of graph literacy in school mathematics courses are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-79305262021-03-04 Graphs in the COVID-19 news: a mathematics audit of newspapers in Korea Kwon, Oh Nam Han, Chaereen Lee, Changsuk Lee, Kyungwon Kim, Kyeongjun Jo, Gyeongha Yoon, Gangwon Educ Stud Math Article Visual displays in the news media become critical during escalating events such as the COVID-19 pandemic, as they facilitate the communication of complex information to the public. This article investigates the use of graphs in Korea’s news media during the COVID-19 outbreak. We selected 12 dates that represent turning points in the outbreak of the disease and collected news stories including graphs from seven Korean daily newspapers issued on those dates. First, we analyzed the usage of graphs in COVID-19 news stories. Quantitative analysis of the types and frequency of graphs used in COVID-19 news stories and qualitative analysis of the content of news stories containing graphs were conducted. Second, we identified cases in which readers may be biased by the mathematical misuse of graphs in the news stories covering COVID-19. The implications of these findings for future teaching and learning of graph literacy in school mathematics courses are discussed. Springer Netherlands 2021-03-04 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC7930526/ /pubmed/34934226 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10649-021-10029-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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