Intermedia Agenda Setting amid the Pandemic: A Computational Analysis of China’s Online News
Table 5
Granger causality results for semiprivatized commercial media and confirmed cases.
Topics
Semiprivatized commercial media ⟶ confirmed cases
Confirmed cases ⟶ semiprivatized commercial media
Pandemic notifications
3.07∗∗
4.13∗∗
Treatment on patients
13.28∗∗
0.76
Methods for pandemic prevention
5.42∗∗
2.75∗∗
Scientific knowledge
5.30∗∗
5.31∗∗
Social assistance
9.25∗∗
5.87∗∗
Work resumption
NA
NA
International pandemic situation
1.45
1.33
Propaganda and mobilization
3.44∗∗
0.99
Note. The Granger causality tests documented in the table are based on F distributions for significance. N/A indicates that at least one of the time series tested was not stationary. ∗p < .05, ∗∗p < .01.