International Perspectives of World News in Taiwan
Date Issued
2015
Date
2015
Author(s)
Wu, Julie
Abstract
This study investigates the world news in Taiwan newspapers throughout 2010 to 2014, implementing multiple regression and social network analysis based on quantitative statistics from text mining, to investigate the relations between countries in Taiwan’s world news, and how economic factors influence news coverage on individual countries. The results indicate that Taiwan newspapers present the world in a core-periphery arrangement. Under this arrangement, the world is divided into several power-zones, where the U.S., the U.K., and China are widely reported as cores even in other countries’ national news, while periphery countries are barely covered unless their news are related to the cores. Two primary economic factors (GDP, trade) are demonstrated to be predictors of the amount of news coverage to each country in Taiwan newspapers.
Subjects
World news
Text mining
Social network analysis
News coverage
Economics
Regression analysis
Taiwan newspaper
Type
thesis