Fig 1.
The analytical framework of this study.
Fig 2.
Five-stage model of the information lifecycle.
Fig 3.
Impact mechanism of public opinion dissemination.
Fig 4.
Management mechanism of public opinion dissemination.
Table 1.
Partial results of COVID-19 news headlines after word segmentation.
Fig 5.
Word cloud of high-frequency words in COVID-19-related news.
Table 2.
The 15 leading high-frequency keywords in COVID-19 news.
Fig 6.
Number of daily news headlines about COVID-19 in Baidu News.
Fig 7.
Proportion of media outlets reporting COVID-19 news.
Fig 8.
Clustering network of high-frequency words in COVID-19-related news.
Fig 9.
Thermal diagram of high-frequency words in COVID-19-related news.
Fig 10.
Time co-occurrence network of high-frequency words in COVID-19-related news.
Table 3.
Co-word matrix of 10 leading high-frequency keywords.
Fig 11.
Social network of COVID-19-related news.
Fig 12.
Group clustering of COVID-19-related news.
Table 4.
Network centrality of some high-frequency keywords.
Table 5.
Descriptive statistics of network centrality.
Table 6.
Statistics of structural holes parameters for the 10 leading keywords.
Table 7.
Research hypotheses and its results.