ArticleBMC public health2018
Representations of electronic cigarettes in Chinese media.
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- Health Communication through Chinese Media on E-Cigarette: A Topic Modeling Approach.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Smoking burden, MPOWER, future tobacco control and real-world challenges in China: reflections on the WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic 2021.Translational lung cancer research · 2022Article
- Electronic cigarette related topics with conflicting arguments in Chinese newspapers.Tobacco induced diseases · 2022Article
- News Media Coverage of E-Cigarettes: An Analysis of Themes in Chinese Newspapers.International journal of communication · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundElectronic cigarettes (E-cigarettes) have become a debated issue for tobacco control over recent years. In this study we investigate how Chinese newspapers have covered E-cigarettes over the past ten years.
methodsThe study analyses the salience, patterns and content of news articles pertaining to E-cigarettes in regional and national Chinese outlets. A total of 476 articles are examined via content analysis and supervised automatic text analysis. The manual content analysis generates a coding scheme, which is then validated and applied to machine learning. The whole research methodology demonstrates satisfying human-human and human-to-computer reliabilities.
resultsThe study reveals that E-cigarettes have not received enough attention in terms of its salience in the media, though the amount of coverage has been growing. A large share of the articles is published around May of each year - which is when the No Tobacco Day of the WHO takes place. The results point to four major themes on E-cigarettes: nicotine/constituents/features, tobacco control/regulation, children's use of E-cigarettes, and tobacco market/industry.
conclusionsOverall, E-cigarettes have not been a topic at the top of media agenda; however, we have identified a considerable growth of coverage about the potential concerns regarding young people's adoption of E-cigarettes advocated by parents and educators.
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