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#BlivHjemme: How COVID-19 Unfolded in Scandinavian News and Social Media

Talk by Rebekah Baglini, IMC

Info about event

Time

Tuesday 8 September 2020,  at 11:00 - 13:00

Location

Online on zoom meeting ID 563 610 6271

Organizer

AR

Abstract

 

Although socio-culturally and linguistically close, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark chose different measures to confront the COVID-19 pandemic: Denmark and Norway quickly imposed lockdowns, while Sweden largely avoided imposing government prohibitions.

This talk reports on in-progress research on the Scandinavian media landscape during the Covid-19 era, conducted as part of the HOPE Project (How Democracies Cope with Covid-19: A Data-Driven Approach). Using Danish newspaper data, we combine latent variable modeling and information theory to show how legacy media respond to a catastrophe that has both social and natural factors. And using a nearly comprehensive sample of Twitter data from all three countries from April-June, we model variation in topical and sentiment patterns aligned with the epidemic's progression and government policy interventions. 

  

About the speaker

Rebekah Baglini, Assistant Professor