Journal article
A Text Analysis of News Media Framing of Government Response to the 2023 Türkiye–Syria Earthquake
Journal of contingencies and crisis management, Vol.33(1), e70023
03/2025
DOI: 10.1111/1468-5973.70023
Appears in UI Libraries Support Open Access
Abstract
The February 2023 Türkiye–Syria Earthquake had a profound impact on political, economic, and social life in Türkiye. Despite criticism about government disaster response, the government of Türkiye won an election 3 months later. We examine variance in media coverage of government disaster responses with Structural Topic Modeling of 12,268 articles in five pro‐ and anti‐government newspapers in Türkiye (Anadolu Ajansi, Hurriyet, Sozcu, Cumhuriyet, and Posta) between the February earthquake and the May election. We identify five general topical themes in the data: emotion, science, information provision, government response, and the economy. We conduct sentiment analysis and find little direct criticism of the government's responses, although anti‐government newspapers are more negative on topics related to building structures and damage. The general pattern of positive sentiment among all newspapers regarding government responses to the earthquake may help us understand why the disaster was not as consequential for the election outcome as some observers expected.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- A Text Analysis of News Media Framing of Government Response to the 2023 Türkiye–Syria Earthquake
- Creators
- Simal Binici - University of IowaJeongho Choi - University of IowaSara McLaughlin Mitchell - University of IowaElise Pizzi - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of contingencies and crisis management, Vol.33(1), e70023
- DOI
- 10.1111/1468-5973.70023
- ISSN
- 0966-0879
- eISSN
- 1468-5973
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/2025
- Academic Unit
- Center for Social Science Innovation; Political Science; Law Faculty
- Record Identifier
- 9984775013202771
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