Digital Journalism

, volume 9 , issue 9 , pages 1261-1285

Sourcing Pandemic News: A Cross-National Computational Analysis of Mainstream Media Coverage of COVID-19 on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram

Claudia Mellado ¹

Daniel C. Hallin ²

Daniel Hallin ²

Luis Cárcamo Ulloa ³

Rodrigo Alfaro ⁴

Daniel Jackson ⁵

María Luisa Humanes ⁶

Mireya Márquez Ramírez ⁷

Jacques Mick ⁸

Cornelia Mothes ⁹

Christi I Hsuan Lin ¹⁰

Misook Lee ¹⁰

Amaranta Alfaro ¹¹

Jose Isbej ¹

José A Isbej Muga ¹

Andrés Ramos ⁴

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School of Journalism, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile |

Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA |

Instituto de Comunicación Social, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile |

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School of Informatics Computing and Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile |

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Faculty of Media and Communication, Bournemouth University, UK |

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Department of Communication Sciences and Sociology, University Rey Juan Carlos, Móstoles, Spain |

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Department of Communications, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, Mexico |

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Department of sociology and political science, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil |

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Department of Communication, Macromedia University of Applied Sciences, Munich, Germany |

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The Center for Global Liberal Arts Program, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan |

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Journalism Department, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Santiago de Chile, Chile |

Publication type: Journal Article

Publication date: 2021-07-13

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Digital Journalism

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CiteScore: 12.6

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ISSN: 21670811, 2167082X

DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2021.1942114

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This article explores the uses of sources in coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic in social media posts of mainstream news organizations in Brazil, Chile, Germany, Mexico, Spain, the U.K., and the U.S...

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Mellado C. et al. Sourcing Pandemic News: A Cross-National Computational Analysis of Mainstream Media Coverage of COVID-19 on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram // Digital Journalism. 2021. Vol. 9. No. 9. pp. 1261-1285.

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Mellado C., Hallin D. C., Hallin D., Cárcamo Ulloa L., Alfaro R., Jackson D., Humanes M. L., Márquez Ramírez M., Mick J., Mothes C., I Hsuan Lin C., Lee M., Alfaro A., Isbej J., Isbej Muga J. A., Ramos A. Sourcing Pandemic News: A Cross-National Computational Analysis of Mainstream Media Coverage of COVID-19 on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram // Digital Journalism. 2021. Vol. 9. No. 9. pp. 1261-1285.

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TY - JOUR

DO - 10.1080/21670811.2021.1942114

UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2021.1942114

TI - Sourcing Pandemic News: A Cross-National Computational Analysis of Mainstream Media Coverage of COVID-19 on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram

T2 - Digital Journalism

AU - Mellado, Claudia

AU - Hallin, Daniel C.

AU - Hallin, Daniel

AU - Cárcamo Ulloa, Luis

AU - Alfaro, Rodrigo

AU - Jackson, Daniel

AU - Humanes, María Luisa

AU - Márquez Ramírez, Mireya

AU - Mick, Jacques

AU - Mothes, Cornelia

AU - I Hsuan Lin, Christi

AU - Lee, Misook

AU - Alfaro, Amaranta

AU - Isbej, Jose

AU - Isbej Muga, José A

AU - Ramos, Andrés

PY - 2021

DA - 2021/07/13

PB - Taylor & Francis

SP - 1261-1285

IS - 9

VL - 9

SN - 2167-0811

SN - 2167-082X

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@article{2021_Mellado,

author = {Claudia Mellado and Daniel C. Hallin and Daniel Hallin and Luis Cárcamo Ulloa and Rodrigo Alfaro and Daniel Jackson and María Luisa Humanes and Mireya Márquez Ramírez and Jacques Mick and Cornelia Mothes and Christi I Hsuan Lin and Misook Lee and Amaranta Alfaro and Jose Isbej and José A Isbej Muga and Andrés Ramos},

title = {Sourcing Pandemic News: A Cross-National Computational Analysis of Mainstream Media Coverage of COVID-19 on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram},

journal = {Digital Journalism},

year = {2021},

volume = {9},

publisher = {Taylor & Francis},

month = {jul},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2021.1942114},

number = {9},

pages = {1261--1285},

doi = {10.1080/21670811.2021.1942114}

}

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Mellado, Claudia, et al. “Sourcing Pandemic News: A Cross-National Computational Analysis of Mainstream Media Coverage of COVID-19 on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.” Digital Journalism, vol. 9, no. 9, Jul. 2021, pp. 1261-1285. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2021.1942114.

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Journal

Digital Journalism

scimago Q1

wos Q1

SJR

3.037

CiteScore

12.6

Impact factor

5.4

ISSN

21670811 (Print)

2167082X (Electronic)