China in the eyes of news media:a case study under COVID-19 epidemic

作     者：Hong HUANG Zhexue CHEN Xuanhua SHI Chenxu WANG Zepeng HE Hai JIN Mingxin ZHANG Zongya LI Hong HUANG;Zhexue CHEN;Xuanhua SHI;Chenxu WANG;Zepeng HE;Hai JIN;Mingxin ZHANG;Zongya LI

作者机构：National Engineering Research Center for Big Data Technology and SystemHuazhong University of Science and TechnologyWuhan430074China Services Computing Technology and System LabHuazhong University of Science and TechnologyWuhan430074China Cluster and Grid Computing LabHuazhong University of Science and TechnologyWuhan430074China School of Computer Science and TechnologyHuazhong University of Science and TechnologyWuhan430074China School of Journalism and Information CommunicationHuazhong University of Science and TechnologyWuhan430074China 

出 版 物：《Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering》 (信息与电子工程前沿（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2021年第22卷第11期

页      面：1443-1457页

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学科分类：050301[文学-新闻学] 05[文学] 0503[文学-新闻传播学] 

基　　金：Haoshuang CAO Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Education European Commission, EC National Natural Science Foundation of China, NSFC 

主　　题：Country image COVID-19 epidemic Topic mining Entity Tone of news Emotion 

摘      要：As one of the early COVID-19 epidemic outbreak areas,China attracted the global news media’s attention at the beginning of *** the epidemic period,Chinese people united and actively fought against the ***,in the eyes of the international public,the situation reported about China is not *** better understand how the international public portrays China,especially during the epidemic,we present a case study with big data *** aim to answer three questions:(1)What has the international media focused on during the COVID-19 epidemic period?(2)What is the media’s tone when they report China?(3)What is the media’s attitude when talking about China?In detail,we crawled more than 280000 pieces of news from 57 mainstream media agencies in 22 countries and made some interesting *** example,international media paid more attention to Chinese livelihood during the COVID-19 epidemic *** March and April,“progress of Chinese vaccines,“specific drugs and treatments,and“virus outbreak in U.S.became the media’s most common *** terms of news attitude,Cuba,Malaysia,and Venezuela had a positive attitude toward China,while France,Canada,and the United Kingdom had a negative *** study can help understand China’s image in the eyes of the international media and provide a sound basis for image analysis.