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- Title
How are Communication and Media Studies Scholars Writing about COVID-19? A Meta-analysis of Communication and MediaFocused Covid-19 Literature.
- Authors
Alharbi, Musaab
- Abstract
According to the selective exposure hypothesis, media with the arrival of COVID-19, the output of communication and mediafocused peer-review articles have increased frenetically. As a result, this study examines the communication and media aspects, methodological characteristics and guiding theories, the geographic landscape of content, and the dominant publication avenue of peer-reviewed articles in high-impact journals (n=576). Findings show that mass communication and social media are the leading media types, while Twitter is the leading platform. The quantitative research method, survey and grounded theory are the leading methodology, research technique and guiding theory, respectively. Countries in the Global North and China dominated the geographic content of this emergent area, while the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships and Health Communication were primary publication outlets. Within communication and media-focused communications research, ‘covid,’ ‘2020,’ ‘media,’ and ‘social’ are the most popular words.
- Subjects
CHINA; CONTENT analysis; MASS media; MEDIA studies; BIBLIOMETRICS; COVID-19; MEDICAL communication; QUANTITATIVE research; SELECTIVE exposure
- Publication
Communication & Society, 2024, Vol 37, Issue 2, p87
- ISSN
2386-7876
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15581/003.37.2.87-108