scholarly journals COVID‐19, media coverage of bats and related Web searches: a turning point for bat conservation?

Mammal Review ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacopo Cerri ◽  
Emiliano Mori ◽  
Leonardo Ancillotto ◽  
Danilo Russo ◽  
Sandro Bertolino
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Web Searches ◽  
Bat Conservation

scholarly journals COVID-19 has led to a global increase in web searches for bats: a risk for conservation ?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacopo Cerri ◽  
Emiliano Mori ◽  
Leonardo Ancillotto ◽  
Danilo Russo ◽  
Sandro Bertolino
Keyword(s):  
Attitude Change ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Impact Analysis ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Web Searches ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Bat Conservation ◽  
Causal Impact ◽  
Global Increase

Following coronavirus COVID-19 epidemic, global media and the Internet started mentioning bats as key actors in the spillover. This depiction often misinterprets scientific evidence about the relationship between bats and SARS-CoV-2, and may contribute to increase bat persecution worldwide if not accompanied by sufficiently clear explanations. Moreover, it is unclear whether people adjusted their information-searching behavior following this coverage.We analyzed Google and Wikipedia searches on bats and coronavirus across 20 countries in 8 languages, in January 2016 - April 2020. We i) inspected bat-related searches on Google before and after January 2020, ii) checked whether Google and Wikipedia searches on bats and coronavirus increased during the pandemic and iii) carried out causal impact analysis to assess how much the pandemic increased daily visit rates to Wikipedia pages on bats.Before 2020, searches about bats included neither viruses nor zoonoses, China, and bat consumption as a food. All these topics have become dominant since January 2020. Likewise, the number of searches about bats and coronavirus increased since January. Causal impact analysis indicated a mean 175% increase in the daily number of visits to the Wikipedia pages about bats, following the announcement of the first COVID-19 victim the 11th January 2020.Increased media coverage of COVID-19 and the potential role of bats as SARS-CoV-2 origin and spillover source seem to have massively amplified people interest towards this mammal group worldwide. Whether this might result in a stable attitude change towards bats, or affect emotions associated with their presence is unknown, yet research about this is urgently needed, as such dynamics are likely to have major implications for bat conservation.

scholarly journals Tracking COVID-19 using online search

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vasileios Lampos ◽  
Maimuna S. Majumder ◽  
Elad Yom-Tov ◽  
Michael Edelstein ◽  
Simon Moura ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Time Series ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Online Search ◽  
Search Activity ◽  
Web Searches ◽  
Search Data ◽  
Modelling Techniques ◽  
Short Term Forecasting

AbstractPrevious research has demonstrated that various properties of infectious diseases can be inferred from online search behaviour. In this work we use time series of online search query frequencies to gain insights about the prevalence of COVID-19 in multiple countries. We first develop unsupervised modelling techniques based on associated symptom categories identified by the United Kingdom’s National Health Service and Public Health England. We then attempt to minimise an expected bias in these signals caused by public interest—as opposed to infections—using the proportion of news media coverage devoted to COVID-19 as a proxy indicator. Our analysis indicates that models based on online searches precede the reported confirmed cases and deaths by 16.7 (10.2–23.2) and 22.1 (17.4–26.9) days, respectively. We also investigate transfer learning techniques for mapping supervised models from countries where the spread of the disease has progressed extensively to countries that are in earlier phases of their respective epidemic curves. Furthermore, we compare time series of online search activity against confirmed COVID-19 cases or deaths jointly across multiple countries, uncovering interesting querying patterns, including the finding that rarer symptoms are better predictors than common ones. Finally, we show that web searches improve the short-term forecasting accuracy of autoregressive models for COVID-19 deaths. Our work provides evidence that online search data can be used to develop complementary public health surveillance methods to help inform the COVID-19 response in conjunction with more established approaches.

scholarly journals Is FTA for ‘Up Closer and Personal’? Reflections on Media and Public Views on the EU in Korea

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 37-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sung-Won Yoon
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Free Trade Agreement ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Trade Agreement ◽  
Detailed Explanation ◽  
Public Opinion Surveys ◽  
The Us ◽  
Personal Reflections ◽  
Public Views ◽  
The Eu

AbstractDue to its geopolitical situation, Korea started its relationship with the EU quite later than with the US, China, Japan and Russia. However, the EU-Korea relationship has grown “slowly but steadily”. The studies on the perception of the EU have been conducted since the 2000s. Korean scholars have been interested in finding out the Korean perception of the EU and have participated in the multiannual international research projects from the beginning. Their extensive data on Korean media coverage on the EU and public opinion surveys present the nature and characteristics of the EU imagery in Korea. EU-Korea relationship has seen a turning point by the signing of a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the two parties. The EU became more exposed to the Korean media on this occasion, and accordingly, the Korean public now considers the EU as a more important partner than before. Through the detailed explanation and analysis of the existing perception studies in this paper, one can understand how the EU perception has been shaped and changed in Korea over time. One of the major findings is that the visibility of the EU has been enhanced in Korea for sure, but the images have been still seriously prejudiced as an ‘economic powerhouse’. Further studies are necessary to examine how to widen the scope of mutual understanding in different fields.

Spreading the Word: Seasonal Changes Mean New Opportunities for Media Coverage

ASHA Leader ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (7) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Seasonal Changes ◽  
Swimming Pools

Summer kicking into high gear conjures images of swimming pools and barbeques. But before you book your beach house for the weekend, think about what the changing seasons can mean for you professionally.

The Turning Point in 1985. The History of Appraisal and Disposal of Records in Iceland

2003 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-202
Author(s):  
Kristjana Kristinsdóttir
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
History Of

Is UNGASS 2016 the Turning Point in International Drug Policy?

2016 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-60
Author(s):  
Danilo Ballotta ◽  
Tim Pfeiffer-Gerschel ◽  
Alexis Goosdeel
Keyword(s):  
Drug Policy ◽  
Turning Point

Do Media Releases About HIV Nondisclosure Affect HIV Prevention? Examining HIV Testing Rates and The Attitudes and Behaviours of MSM Following Local Media Coverage About Charges Related to Nondisclosure

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick O'Byrne ◽  
Jacqueline Wilmore ◽  
Alyssa Bryan ◽  
Dara Friedman ◽  
Andrew Hendriks ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hiv Prevention ◽  
Hiv Testing ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Local Media

Media Coverage of Child Sexual Abuse: Towards a New Agenda in Mainland China

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jia Xue ◽  
Cui Naixue ◽  
Gao Shuling
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Mainland China

Parents who kill and media coverage in Israel

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel Cavaglion ◽  
Odeda Steinberg
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage
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