News media in crisis
A sentiment and emotion analysis of US news articles on unemployment in the Covid-19 pandemic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22236356 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lingli Yu (Ningbo University, corresponding author), Ling Yang (0000-0001-5750-6588, Anhui University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2024-06-28 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2662-9992 • E-ISSN: 2662-9992 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/s41599-024-03225-9 |
| OpenAlex | W4400146017 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 42 |
News media play an indispensable role in disseminating information and shaping public perception during times of crisis. This study, integrating sentiment, emotion, discourse, and timeline analyses together, conducts a corpus-based sentiment analysis of the news articles on unemployment from the New York Times in 2020 to capture the emotional dynamics conveyed by the newspaper as the pandemic-induced unemployment developed in the US. The results reveal that positive sentiment in the news articles on unemployment is significantly higher than negative sentiment. In emotion analysis, “trust” and “anticipation” rank the first and second among the eight emotions, while “fear” and “sadness” top the negative emotions. Complemented with a discourse analysis approach, the study reveals that the change of the sentiments and emotions over time is linked with the evolution of the pandemic and unemployment, the policy response as well as the protests against ethnic inequalities. This study highlights the important role mainstream news media play in information dissemination and solution-focused reportage at the time of severe crisis
2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Economic growth · Economics · Media studies · Pandemic · Political science · Sentiment analysis · Sociology · Unemployment · Computer Science · COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts · Medicine · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Psychology · Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining · Artificial Intelligence · Virology
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| Citations per year | 3 |
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| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |