关注不足:事件关注和报道的财富和区域差距在维基百科上
Thorsten Ruprechter1, Keith Burghardt2, Denis Helic1,3
1Institute of Interactive Systems and Data Science, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria.
PloS one
|November 8, 2023
概括
维基百科对全球事件的报道不均. 富裕国家的事件比不富裕地区的事件受到更多的关注,尽管灾难的严重程度也会影响报道. 这凸显了在线信息传播中的偏见.
科学领域:
- 信息科学 信息科学 信息科学
- 计算社会科学 计算社会科学
- 媒体研究 媒体研究
背景情况:
- 维基百科作为一个重要的全球知识和新闻来源.
- 某些值得关注的新闻事件得到了不充分的报道,缺乏足够的关注.
- 新闻价值理论预测事件的新闻价值,但覆盖范围存在差异.
研究的目的:
- 分析经济状况和地理区域如何影响维基百科事件文章覆盖范围.
- 检查维基百科四个主要语言版本的注意力和覆盖范围的差异.
- 为新闻价值理论提供关于在线信息传播的经验分析.
主要方法:
- 分析了维基百科四种语言版本的17490篇事件文章.
- 对事件地点的经济地位和地理因素进行定量检查.
- 事件特征与文章关注度/覆盖率之间的相关性分析.
主要成果:
- 维基百科的主要版本表现出偏的重点,优先考虑经济发达国家的事件.
- 在较不富裕地区的事件得到的关注和报道要少得多.
- 诸如灾害死亡人数等因素也与事件注意力相关.
结论:
- 维基百科的事件报道反映了全球经济和地理偏见.
- 了解这些偏见对于更公平的在线信息格局至关重要.
- 这项研究提供了对维基百科关注和报道动态的细微视角.
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