Title |
Representations of electronic cigarettes in Chinese media
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Published in |
BMC Public Health, June 2018
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DOI | 10.1186/s12889-018-5644-x |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Shaojing Sun, Giuseppe A. Veltri, Fan Wang |
Abstract |
Electronic 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. The 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. The 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. Overall, 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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Student > Master | 8 | 12% |
Professor | 6 | 9% |
Researcher | 5 | 8% |
Lecturer | 3 | 5% |
Other | 6 | 9% |
Unknown | 28 | 42% |
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Psychology | 5 | 8% |
Social Sciences | 4 | 6% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 4 | 6% |
Computer Science | 3 | 5% |
Other | 9 | 14% |
Unknown | 30 | 45% |