scholarly journals The impact of monthly campaigns and other high-profile media coverage on public interest in 13 malignancies: a Google Trends analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel A Cohen ◽  
Landon E Cohen ◽  
Jonathan D Tijerina
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Google Trends ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Trends Analysis ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Impact of the World Antimicrobial Awareness Week on public interest between 2015 and 2020: A Google Trends analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koichi Keitoku ◽  
Yoshito Nishimura ◽  
Hideharu Hagiya ◽  
Toshihiro Koyama ◽  
Fumio Otsuka
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
Google Trends ◽  
The World ◽  
Trends Analysis

The Impact of Severe Air Pollution in January 2013 in Beijing on Sustained Elevation of Public Environmental Concern

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Schwabe
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Environmental Concern ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Media Reporting ◽  
Timeline Analysis ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Harmful and sudden events trigger intense media coverage which in turn can elevate public interest in a problem within an instant. A period of heavy air pollution in Beijing in January 2013 may have been such a case. This sudden and intense period of air pollution featured historically high levels of fine particulate concentrations and was assumed by observers to be a trigger for shifting public perception and increased pressure for policy adjustment. This study examines whether this period of severe air pollution indeed triggered increased public scrutiny, following which the influential factors behind this development are outlined. In this context, a focus is given to the interplay of air quality, media reporting and public discussion in shaping sustained public interest. Based on a timeline analysis and survey data, it is argued that the combination of historically high air pollution with intense media reporting did lead to higher public attention to the topic.

scholarly journals Public Interest in Knee Replacement Fell During the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Google Trends Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (S1) ◽  
pp. 24-28
Author(s):  
David C. Landy ◽  
Brian P. Chalmers ◽  
Thomas J. Utset-Ward ◽  
Michael P. Ast
Keyword(s):  
Knee Replacement ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Google Trends ◽  
Trends Analysis

The Impact of Rape Myths and Current Events on the Well-Being of Sexual Violence Survivors

2020 ◽  
pp. 107780122093778
Author(s):  
Gwendolyn D. Anderson ◽  
Rebekah Overby
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Rape Myths ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Political Event ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Current Events ◽  
The Impact

Rape myths perpetuate blaming survivors of sexual violence for their own victimization. Although research has explored how public and political discourse, current events, and media coverage of sexual violence impacts the well-being of survivors, few studies have examined it from the perspectives of participants as a significant event is unfolding. This study presents findings from semi-structured interviews with female, trans, and nonbinary identified survivors during the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings. We found most participants experienced the negative impact of rape myths, and victim blaming reactions from friends, family, and professionals, both initially and with renewed intensity during this high-profile political event.

scholarly journals Public Interest in Elective Urological Procedures in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Google Trends Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 496-501 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hriday P. Bhambhvani ◽  
Jonathan D. Tijerina ◽  
Matthew J. Parham ◽  
Daniel R. Greenberg ◽  
Michael L. Eisenberg
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
Google Trends ◽  
Trends Analysis ◽  
Urological Procedures

scholarly journals Mass media and containment effect on cutaneous acral lesion online searches during COVID-19 : Infodemiology study on Google trends (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Solene Huynh ◽  
Tu Anh DUONG ◽  
Guillaume Lame ◽  
Thomas Hubiche ◽  
Khaled Ezzedine
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Interrupted Time Series ◽  
Western Country ◽  
Google Trends ◽  
Interrupted Time Series Analysis ◽  
Significant Downward Trend ◽  
Slope Change ◽  
Online Searches ◽  
World Organization ◽  
The Impact

BACKGROUND External factors may hinder Google Trends (GT)’s role as an infodemiology tool. For COVID-19, new symptoms and their searches on internet prior to world organization of health validation were previsouly described. In western country, an unexpected outbreak of cutaneous acral lesion e.g chilblains was released by the dermatologists in April. OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to assess the temporality between media announcement or lockdown and online searches related to cutaneous acral lesion during COVID-19 outbreak. METHODS Two searches on GT including daily relative search volumes related to 1/ “toe” or “chilblains” and 2/ “coronavirus” were made from January 1st to May 16th 2020 for US, UK, France, Italy, Spain, and Germany. The ratio chilblains to coronavirus was plotted. To assess the impact of lockdown and media coverages, interrupted time series analysis were performed for each country. RESULTS During the period the ratio chilblains /coronavirus searches showed a constant upward trend. In France, Italy and UK, the lockdown was associated to a significant slope change of chilblain searches with coefficient value of 1.06  0.42, 1.04  0.28 and, 1.21  0.44 (p<0.01) respectively. After media announcement, a steep statistically significant increase was found in France, Spain, Italy and the US with coefficient values of 18.95 5.77, 31.31  6.31, 14.57  6.33, 11.24  4.93 (p<0.01), followed by with a statistically significant downward trend in France, Spain and Italy (p<0.01). Adjusted R2 values were 0.311, 0.351, 0.325, 0.305 in France, Spain, Italy and US, in favor of an average correlation between time and research volume. The correlation was weak in Germany and UK. CONCLUSIONS To date chilblains link to COVID-19 remains controversial in the scientific community. However their relative search volumes on GT were highly influenced by lockdown measures and media coverage suggesting caution when using GT as pandemic surveillance tool.

Estimating the extent and nature of offending by Sudanese-born individuals in Victoria

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 352-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephane M Shepherd ◽  
Benjamin L Spivak
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Racial Profiling ◽  
Adult Males ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Indigenous Australian ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Australian Bureau Of Statistics ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Criminal Incident

The involvement in crime of some young Sudanese-born Victorians has received sustained public attention in recent years. The media coverage of these occurrences has been extensive, with some outlets criticised for sensationalist reporting and prejudiced undertones. A range of views were held across the commentariat including, for example, the notion that Sudanese-Victorian criminal involvement has been overstated; that some level of justice over-representation was inevitable due to the demographics of Sudanese-born Victorians, which skew young and male (i.e. the demographic hypothesis); and that offending rates may be associated with heightened law enforcement responses following a high-profile criminal incident in March 2016 that received protracted media coverage and political commentary (i.e. the racial-profiling hypothesis). This paper sought to address these contentions by (i) examining the offending rates of both young and adult males across three cultural sub-groups (i.e. Sudanese-born, Indigenous Australian, Australian-born) across several offending categories between 2015 and 2018 and (ii) exploring the impact of a high-profile criminal incident in March 2016, on the offending rates of Sudanese-born Victorians. Offending rates were calculated using offender incident data from the Victorian Crime Statistics Agency and population estimates from the Australian Bureau of Statistics Census data. Findings indicate that Sudanese-born individuals figure prominently in both youth and adult offending categories relative to other major cultural sub-groups. Rates for ‘crimes against the person’ were especially pronounced for Sudanese-born youth and significantly higher than rates for crimes more subject to police discretion (i.e. public order offences). The ‘demographic hypothesis’ did not hold for the specified age range of 10 to 17 years. An increase in offending was observed post-March 2016 across two offending categories for Sudanese-born Victorians. Findings are contextualised within.

scholarly journals Analysis and potential use of Google Trends as a monitoring tool for risk communication during COVID-19 pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 399
Author(s):  
Nindya Mahfuza ◽  
Rizma Adlia Syakurah ◽  
Resiana Citra
Keyword(s):  
Risk Communication ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Communication Strategy ◽  
Google Trends ◽  
Time Lagged ◽  
The Government ◽  
Information Finding ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Potential Use ◽  
Lagged Correlation

COVID-19 Pandemic has become a major problem in various infected countries, including Indonesia. The proper risk communication strategy during this outbreak was important to reduce the impact. Therefore, this research was intended to assess the potential use of Google Trends as a tool to monitor risk communication during COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia. Search patterns were analyzed using the terminology used to identify COVID-19 in Indonesia, followed by information-finding keywords 'gejala (symptoms)', 'mencegah (preventing)', and 'obat (drug)' keywords compared to the number of newly confirmed COVID-19 cases in Indonesia using time-lagged correlation analysis from December 31th, 2019 to April 20th, 2020. Peaks within respective timelines were qualitatively described according to current COVID-19 related events. ”Corona” was the terminology mostly used in Indonesia to identify COVID-19. There were five spikes observed from “corona” keyword timeline, which each spike was dependent on the media coverage and regulation by the Government. Validation using time-lagged correlation yields significant results between corona, corona symptoms, preventing corona and corona drugs compared to newly confirmed COVID-19 cases in Indonesia. Google Trends can potentially be used to maximize the improvement of risk communication and as a tool to monitor public restlessness during the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia by Government.

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