Replication Data for: "Locating the Asymmetry in Information Flow between Local and National Media on Transgender Discourses"

<p>Full text and metadata for articles used in the analyses for "Locating the Asymmetry in Information Flow between Local and National Media on Transgender Discourses", currently under review for a special issue on transphobic disinformation from the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies.</p>

<h1>Columns: </h1>
<ul>
<li>Unnamed:0 (dataset index),</li>
<li>media_name (media outlet where the article was published),</li>
<li>publish_date (date of publication in YYYY-mm-DD HH:MM:SS format),</li>
<li>title (article title),</li>
<li>url (article URL as obtained from MediaCloud),</li>
<li>subtitle (article subtitle),</li>
<li>text (article text),</li>
<li>sent_count (number of sentences),</li>
<li>domain (domain from which the article was obtained),</li>
<li>gender_label (does this article contain the string "gender"?),</li>
<li>media_group (state-level or national media collection as defined in the article -- one of {'texas', 'ohio', 'illinois', 'florida', 'california', 'newyork', 'nytimes.com', 'foxnews.com'})</li>
</ul>

<h1>Abstract: </h1>
<p>Mainstream news outlets set the agenda and terms of discussion for public discourse. As transgender people experience increasingly vitriolic attacks on their fundamental rights in the U.S., understanding the dynamics governing media discussions of transgender people becomes even more salient. The interplay between news outlets with different geographical scopes—national and local—is an important aspect of media discourse circulation. Guided by inter-media agenda-setting theory, we use transfer entropy, a measure of information flow, to quantify whether, and how, transgender discourses spread across local and national media. We find that transgender discourses on a particular topic propagate from national to state-level outlets; however, we find that this process often involves two steps: national outlets influence particular state(s), which, in turn, influence the other states. Therefore, local outlets play a more complex role in agenda-setting for transgender discourses than previously thought. We combine our quantitative study of information flow between two national outlets and six state-level news collections with two comprehensive qualitative case studies, including recommendations for interventions to improve the state of the news ecosystem, to shed light on the circulation and nature of various transgender discourses across different geographical scopes within the U.S. media landscape.
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本数据集为研究论文《定位跨性别话语中地方与全国媒体间信息流的不对称性》的分析所用文章的全文与元数据，该论文目前正处于《应用跨性别研究通报》（Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies）关于跨性别虚假信息特刊的审稿阶段。

## 字段列表
- 未命名列0（数据集索引）：数据集的索引标识
- 媒体名称：文章发表的媒体机构
- 发布日期：文章的发布时间，格式为YYYY-mm-DD HH:MM:SS
- 文章标题：文章的正式标题
- 文章链接：从MediaCloud获取的文章URL
- 文章副标题：文章的副标题
- 文章正文：文章的完整文本内容
- 句子数量：文章包含的句子总数
- 来源域名：文章来源的网站域名
- 性别关键词标记：文章是否包含字符串"gender"
- 媒体分组：文章定义的州级或国家级媒体集合，可选值为{'德克萨斯州(texas)', '俄亥俄州(ohio)', '伊利诺伊州(illinois)', '佛罗里达州(florida)', '加利福尼亚州(california)', '纽约州(newyork)', 'nytimes.com', 'foxnews.com'}

## 研究摘要
主流新闻媒体为公共话语设定议程与讨论框架。当前美国跨性别群体的基本权利正遭受愈发激烈的恶毒攻击，厘清媒体对跨性别群体的讨论动态变得愈发关键。不同地理范围（全国性与地方性）的新闻媒体间的互动，是媒体话语传播的重要维度。本研究以跨媒体议程设置理论为指导，采用信息流度量指标传递熵（transfer entropy），量化跨性别话语是否以及如何在地方与全国媒体间传播。研究发现，特定主题的跨性别话语从全国性媒体流向州级媒体；但该传播过程通常包含两个阶段：全国性媒体先影响特定州级媒体，随后这些州级媒体再辐射至其他州。因此，地方媒体在跨性别话语的议程设置中扮演的角色，比此前认知更为复杂。本研究将针对两家全国性媒体与六家州级媒体集合的信息流量化研究，与两项全面的质性案例研究相结合，并提出改善新闻生态的干预建议，以期阐明美国媒体格局中不同地理范围内各类跨性别话语的传播路径与本质特征。