Research of Reports on the Refugee Issue from the Perspective of Agenda Setting—— Quantitative Research Based on Search Engine Index
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DOI: 10.23977/ETSS2020043
Corresponding Author
Haipeng Yu
ABSTRACT
The international refugee issue remains serious in 2020. Based on the trends and indexes of Google and Baidu search engines, this paper explores the media agenda setting for the refugee issue and its impact, with the European refugee crisis from 2015 to 2020 as the research subject. The analysis of linear correlation coefficient shows the declining ability of traditional media in agenda setting and the diversification of subjects of agenda setting for the refugee problem; the analysis of media agenda trends suggests that the media and public have paid less attention to the refugee issue since 2015. The refugee issue may be “dormant or disappearing from the agenda”. Therefore, international organizations and non-governmental organizations should realize their important role in the refugee issue, and the ability of diversified subjects to set the agenda for the refugee issue should be given full play, so that the refugee issue can return to the "ritualization" stage
KEYWORDS
Agenda Setting, Search Engine Index, Analysis of Linear Correlation Coefficient, Diversified Subjects, Agenda Cycle