Department of Mass Communication, Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, Nigeria.
Hum Vaccin Immunother. 2021 Aug 3;17(8):2421-2426. doi: 10.1080/21645515.2021.1882282. Epub 2021 Mar 11.
There is a global shift in discource on issues related to COVID-19 with greater attention paid to the vaccine. COVID-19. Despite this, the literature on media coverage of COVID-19 is yet to be extended to media coverage of issues related to medical progress on a vaccine for the virus. The objective of the current study was to fill this gap by examining how Nigerian media report COVID-19 vaccine development In doing so, attention was paid to the frequency of coverage, sources of stories as well as story type used. Two newspapers and TV stations were sampled for the current study. The current study made use of content analysis with a code sheet as the instrument for data collection. The result of the current study revealed that only 23% of the media stories on COVID-19 were related to vaccine development. Additionally, most of the stories made use of official sources as well as straight news. Comparatively, newspapers covered more in vaccine development than TV. The implications of these results on medical communication and theory are discussed.
全球范围内与 COVID-19 相关问题的讨论发生了转变，人们更加关注疫苗。尽管如此，关于媒体对 COVID-19 报道的文献尚未扩展到媒体对与病毒疫苗相关的医学进展问题的报道。本研究旨在通过研究尼日利亚媒体对 COVID-19 疫苗开发的报道来填补这一空白，为此，本研究关注了报道的频率、故事来源以及使用的故事类型。本研究选择了两份报纸和两家电视台作为样本。本研究使用了内容分析法，使用编码表作为数据收集工具。本研究的结果表明，只有 23%的 COVID-19 媒体报道与疫苗开发有关。此外，大多数报道都使用了官方来源和直新闻。相比之下，报纸对疫苗开发的报道比电视多。讨论了这些结果对医学传播和理论的影响。
