Research Article

Intermedia Agenda Setting amid the Pandemic: A Computational Analysis of China’s Online News

Table 3

Granger causality results for online news media of different types.

TopicsSemiprivatized commercial media ⟶ official mediaOfficial media ⟶ semiprivatized commercial media

Pandemic notifications1.103.22
Treatment on patients3.633.09
Methods for pandemic prevention3.55∗∗1.36
Scientific knowledge1.091.88
Social assistanceNANA
Work resumption3.91∗∗4.55∗∗
International pandemic situation1.651.26
Propaganda and mobilization4.52∗∗3.56∗∗

Note. p < .05, ∗∗p < .01.