Covid-19 representations in Italian newspapers: A text-based analysis

Titolo Rivista RIVISTA DI PSICOLOGIA CLINICA
Autori/Curatori Matteo Reho, Giulia Rocchi, Skaiste Kerusauskaite, Margherita Alessio, Gerardo Anconetani, Gaia Ciccone, Sandy Coen, Giulia Crescenzi, Lucrezia Ferri, Lisa Fiorentino, Antonella Gioffrè, Damiano Paolo Leva, Francesco Luzzo, Marta Pollastro, Martina Straniero, Emma Strumia, Alessandro Gennaro
Anno di pubblicazione 2023 Fascicolo 2022/2
Lingua Inglese Numero pagine 21 P. 40-60 Dimensione file 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/rpc2-2022oa14839
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The paper presents the results of an analysis aimed at mapping the themes through which covid-19 is represented in some Italian newspapers and the semantic structure that grounds and shapes the content of those themes. For this purpose, the ACASM (Automated Co-occurrence Analysis for Semantic Mapping) procedure was used and applied to a text corpus consisting of a set of national newspaper articles balanced by source, political orientation and publication period. The results show that Italian newspapers represented the pandemic according to four specific themes based on two semantic structures. The implications of these results are discussed.

The paper presents the results of an analysis aimed at mapping the themes through which covid-19 is represented in some Italian newspapers and the semantic structure that grounds and shapes the content of those themes. For this purpose, the ACASM (Automated Co-occurrence Analysis for Semantic Mapping) procedure was used and applied to a text corpus consisting of a set of national newspaper articles balanced by source, political orientation and publication period. The results show that Italian newspapers represented the pandemic according to four specific themes based on two semantic structures. The implications of these results are discussed.

Parole chiave:; representations of covid-19; frame; theme; text analysis; ACASM

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Matteo Reho, Giulia Rocchi, Skaiste Kerusauskaite, Margherita Alessio, Gerardo Anconetani, Gaia Ciccone, Sandy Coen, Giulia Crescenzi, Lucrezia Ferri, Lisa Fiorentino, Antonella Gioffrè, Damiano Paolo Leva, Francesco Luzzo, Marta Pollastro, Martina Straniero, Emma Strumia, Alessandro Gennaro, Covid-19 representations in Italian newspapers: A text-based analysis in "RIVISTA DI PSICOLOGIA CLINICA" 2/2022, pp 40-60, DOI: 10.3280/rpc2-2022oa14839