检查公众对Twitter上年龄主义术语的认识:内容分析分析
Emily Schramm1, Christopher C Yang2, Chia-Hsuan Chang2
1College of Medicine, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
JMIR aging
|September 12, 2023
概括
社交媒体的言论揭示了对年龄歧视语言的广泛滥用,例如"老人"和"老年人",尽管努力促进对老年人有尊重的术语. 关于年龄歧视和适当的术语的公共教育对于促进健康老龄化至关重要.
科学领域:
- 社会科学 社会科学 社会科学
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 沟通研究 沟通研究
背景情况:
- 全球卫生组织主张对老年人使用尊重的术语.
- COVID-19 疫情加剧了社交媒体上的年龄歧视话语.
- 在疫情期间,了解年龄歧视语言的流行率至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 分析推特上年龄歧视术语的流行和使用情况.
- 调查在线讨论中年龄主义语言是如何存在的.
主要方法:
- 收集了超过6000万条与COVID-19相关的推文 (2020年3月至7月).
- 采用混合方法:对推特进行定量分析和内容分析.
- 标识的推特包含包含标识的推特
- 老人,老人,老人的人.
- 年长的老人老年人老年人.
- 年长的成年人.
- 和COVID-19的术语. 这些术语.
主要成果:
- 58,930条推特使用了"老人"或"老年人"的年龄主义术语; 11,328条使用了"老年人".
- 推特用户经常批判性地使用年龄歧视术语,表明缺乏对适当语言的认识.
- 敌对的年龄主义内容经常使用义词,如"老人"和"老年人".
结论:
- 推特上的公共话语表明,对老年人的尊重术语存在持续的误解.
- 有针对性的公共教育是必要的,以打击年龄歧视和促进健康的老龄化.
- 调查结果强调需要提高对年龄歧视和适当语言的认识.
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