Debates over the role of Traditional Chinese Medicine on COVID-19: A computational comparison between professionals and laypersons in Chinese online knowledge community

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作者：

Li, Jinhui ^{[1
]}

Shi, Wen ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Jinan Univ, Sch Journalism & Commun, 601 Huangpu Ave West, Guangzhou 510632, Guangdong, Peoples R China

来源：

SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE | 2024年 / 361卷

关键词：

Scientific debate; COVID-19; Agenda setting; Zhihu; Structural topic modeling; NETWORKED PUBLIC SPHERE; SOCIAL MEDIA; SCIENCE COMMUNICATION; AGENDA; TWITTER; HEALTH; INFORMATION; FRAGMENTATION; RETHINKING; SCIENTISTS;

D O I：

10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117366

中图分类号：

R1 [预防医学、卫生学];

学科分类号：

1004 ; 120402 ;

摘要：

Leveraging a large collection of textual data (N = 21,539) from a Chinese online community, we employed structural topic modeling to investigate the thematic disparities between professionals and laypersons, regarding the effectiveness of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) on COVID-19. Findings reveal that laypersons are the dominant communicators in terms of discussion volume, who often focus on relevant news events, societal or political aspects of TCM. In contrast, professionals keep concentrating on issues related to medical expertise, and do not shift attentions as frequent as laypersons. Despite the dominant influence of professionals on laypersons' agenda, two-way agenda interactions identified confirm that lay public is empowered to negotiate with elite professionals under certain topics. Our results provide novel insights into the dynamic nature of attentions, behaviors, and relations among prominent communication actors, and encourage future research to examine the individual-level and societal-level impacts of these constructs in the emerging online media landscape.

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