Objectives. To examine the extent to which the phrases, “COVID-19” and “Chinese virus” were associated with anti-Asian sentiments. Methods. Data were collected from Twitter’s Application Programming Interface, which included the hashtags “#covid19” or “#chinesevirus.” We analyzed tweets from...
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This study is middle school debate club level hilarious. Before posting studies (at least sharing them with me) take a few minutes to actually read a little bit about em and see if they are legit or this hilariously bad.
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Y. Hswen conceptualized the idea, developed and carried out the analytical methods, interpreted the findings, and wrote the article. X. Xu helped collect the data, and coded and assisted with analysis. A. Hing coded data, helped with the interpretation of the data, and edited the article. J. B. Hawkins and J. S. Brownstein supervised the analytical methods and the data collection and provided critical feedback. G. C. Gee encouraged Y. Hswen to investigate and supervised the findings of the work, interpreted the results, and wrote the article alongside with Y. Hswen.
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Objectives. To examine the extent to which the phrases, “COVID-19” and “Chinese virus” were associated with anti-Asian sentiments.
Methods. Data were collected from Twitter’s Application Programming Interface, which included the hashtags “#covid19” or “#chinesevirus.” We analyzed tweets from March 9 to 23, 2020, corresponding to the week before and the week after President Donald J. Trump’s tweet with the phrase, “Chinese Virus.” Our analysis focused on 1 273 141 hashtags.
Results. One fifth (19.7%) of the 495 289 hashtags with #covid19 showed anti-Asian sentiment, compared with half (50.4%) of the 777 852 hashtags with #chinesevirus. When comparing the week before March 16, 2020, to the week after, there was a significantly greater increase in anti-Asian hashtags associated with #chinesevirus compared with #covid19 (
P < .001).
Conclusions. Our data provide new empirical evidence supporting recommendations to use the less-stigmatizing term “COVID-19,” instead of “Chinese virus.”
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