科研动态Research News ｜ 安宁副教授等关注疫情期间全球新闻媒体关于国家形象构建的研究取得进展

安宁副教授等关注疫情期间全球新闻媒体

关于国家形象构建的研究取得进展

Associate Prof. Ning An et al. makes research progress in the fields of how country image is constructed within global news reports during COVID-19

华南师范大学地理科学学院安宁副教授（第一作者）等在地理学核心期刊Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy（SSCI）发表题为“Mapping a Country Image from Global News Reports about COVID-19 Pandemic” ( https://doi.org/10.1007/s12061-022-09498-4  )的研究论文。

2019年新冠病毒（COVID-19）大流行作为一场毁灭性的全球公共卫生危机，已在全球范围内造成数亿人感染，数百万人死亡，对社会生产和生活产生严重影响，迫切需要一个全球合作机制共同应对危机。作为知识生产和传播的中介，媒体纷纷对各国应当疫情的举措和政策进行报道，而这一媒体格局在影响人们对特定国家的形象方面也发挥了关键作用。尽管自新冠肺炎疫情爆发以来，众多学科对此进行了大量研究，但迄今为止，很少对新冠肺炎全球媒体报道的差异进行研究，我们认为，这是促进建立有效的国际抗疫合作机制过程中被忽视的一个重要细节。那么，在新冠肺炎疫情爆发期间，全球媒体对特定国家的报道态度是否存在差异，如果有，有哪些差异？在新冠肺炎全球新闻报道中，哪些因素可以预测媒体对特定国家的态度？对此，本研究基于全球事件、语言和语调数据库项目（GDELT），使用媒体分析和相关分析来阐明228个国家的新闻报道在报道新冠疫情时，其讨论一个特定国家时的显著差异。研究发现，这些差异深深嵌入不同国家的经济、社会政治和文化背景中。这项研究强调了在全球范围内从地缘政治视角考察新冠疫情的迫切性，进一步的研究对于促进有效的国际合作机制以遏制新冠疫情的传播具有重要价值。

本研究得到了国家自然科学基金（42171226; 41871127;42101223），教育部人文社会科学项目（20YJC630232），广东大学创新团队项目（2021WCXTD014）的支持。Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy是地理领域的核心期刊（SSCI），2022年影响因子为2.043。该研究由安宁（华南师范大学地理科学学院副教授）、郑重（北京师范大学地理科学学部副研究员）、陈灿文（广东省科学院广州地理研究所助理工程师）、杨晓婷（华南师范大学地理科学学院本科生）、林铭亮（赫尔辛基大学地球科学与地理系研究生）共同完成。

The COVID-19 pandemic, a devastating global public health crisis that has infected hundreds of millions of people and killed millions worldwide, has had a serious impact on society and urgently requires a global collaborative mechanism to address the crisis together. As mediators in the production and dissemination of knowledge, the media have reported on national initiatives and policies in response to the COVID-19, and this media landscape has played a key role in influencing people’s image of particular countries. Although much research has been conducted in numerous disciplines since the outbreak of COVID-19, to date, very few studies exist on the differences in global media coverage of COVID-19. We believe this is an important overlooked detail in the process to promote the formation of an effective international anti-pandemic cooperation mechanism. So, are there any differences in the attitudes of global media reports towards a specific country during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, and if so, what are they? What factors forecast the media’s attitude towards a specific country in global news reports on COVID-19? In response, this study uses media analysis and correlation analysis, based on the Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone project (GDELT), to elucidate the significant differences in news coverage of 228 countries when discussing a specific country in their coverage of the COVID-19. The study found that these differences are deeply embedded in the economic, socio-political and cultural contexts of different countries. This study highlights the urgency of examining the COVID-19 from a geopolitical perspective in a global context, and further research will be valuable in promoting effective international cooperation mechanisms to curb the spread of COVID-19.

图1. 新冠疫情相关全球新闻报道的语调值和地理信息

图2. 全球新闻报道对美国新冠疫情的态度（按国家划分）

图文来源 | 安   宁

初审 | 袁亚娟

复审 | 陶   伟

终审 | 刘云刚