The objective of this study was to qualitatively summarise the content of online news articles pertaining to food parenting practices and determine whether this content is substantiated by the scientific literature. News article data were identified and collected from United Kingdom online news...

Our study analyzed the impact of African swine fever (ASF) news on the Korean meat market using sentiment analysis. We applied a neural network language model (NNLM) to generate a sentiment index indicating whether the news had a positive or negative impact on consumer expectations. We analyzed...

Purpose: Fake news represents a real risk for brands, particularly for firms selling essential products, such as food items. Despite this anecdotal acknowledgement, the dynamics of the relationship between fake news and brand reputation remain under-explored. The present study addresses this gap by ...

This paper investigates the extent to which media coverage on organic dairy issues influences consumers' willingness to pay (WTP) for the organic attribute of milk. We find that news with contents most often viewed as negative towards organic dairy are more powerful in decreasing consumers' WTP for ...

The emergence of Covid-19 has significantly changed the news broadcast in traditional media and on the web. Concerns such as cooking at home or ordering food through apps, health, shopping on e-commerce, or working from home became part of everyday life for families. Shortages of some items, queues ...

Purpose: The authors sought to unpack the paradox between increasing demand for probiotics products against inconclusive scientific evidence about the effectiveness. This paper investigated public understanding of the composition and benefits of probiotic products, measured trust in news media and...

Purpose: Few studies on hospitality firm survival consider the impact of online media exposure. This paper aims to investigate how the online news coverage of restaurants, characterized in terms of the number of articles, channel (Web page or mobile app), topic (operations or products) and...

Partisan segregation within the news audience buffers many Americans from countervailing political views, posing a risk to democracy. Empirical studies of the online media ecosystem suggest that only a small minority of Americans, driven by a mix of demand and algorithms, are siloed according to...

In light of the significance of regulatory authorities and the rising demand for information disclosure, a vast amount of information on food safety news reports is readily accessible on the Internet. The extraction of such information for precise classification and provision of appropriate safety...

In Indonesia, state and non-state actors frame youth attrition from agriculture as a food security concern and propose policy solutions focused on 'modern' farming techniques. Using a critical framing analysis of five national Indonesian news media sources from 2010 to 2020, we examine how...