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

Journal title RIVISTA DI PSICOLOGIA CLINICA
Author/s 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
Publishing Year 2023 Issue 2022/2
Language English Pages 21 P. 40-60 File size 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.

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

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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