Public Reactions to the Cigarette Control Regulation on a Chinese Microblogging Platform: Empirical Analysis

doi:10.2196/14660

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	Public Reactions to the Cigarette Control Regulation on a Chinese Microblogging Platform: Empirical Analysis
	Wen, Wanting1,2 ; Zhang, Zhu1,3 ; Li, Ziqiang 1; Liang, Jiaqi1 ; Zhan, Yongcheng 4; Zeng, Daniel D.1,2,3 ; Leischow, Scott J.5
发表期刊	JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH
ISSN	1438-8871
	2020-04-27
卷号	22 期号:4 页码:13
通讯作者	Wen, Wanting(wanting.wen@ia.ac.cn)
摘要	Background: On January 1, 2019, a new regulation on the control of smoking in public places was officially implemented in Hangzhou, China On the day of the implementation, a large number of Chinese media reported the contents of the regulation on the microblog platform Weibo, causing a strong response from and heated discussion among netizens. Objective: This study aimed to conduct a content and network analysis to examine topics and patterns in the social media response to the new regulation. Methods: We analyzed all microblogs on Weibo that mentioned and explained the regulation in the first 8 days following the implementation. We conducted a content analysis on these microblogs and used social network visualization and descriptive statistics to identify key users and key microblogs. Results: Of 7924 microblogs, 12.85% (1018/7924) were in support of the smoking control regulation, 84.12% (6666/7924) were neutral, and 1.31% (104/7924) were opposed to the smoking regulation control. For the negative posts, the public had doubts about the intentions of the policy, its implementation, and the regulations on electronic cigarettes. In addition, 1.72% (136/7924) were irrelevant to the smoking regulation control. Among the 1043 users who explicitly expressed their positive or negative attitude toward the policy, a large proportion of users showed supportive attitudes (956/1043, 91.66%). A total of 5 topics and 11 subtopics were identified. Conclusions: This study used a content and network analysis to examine topics and patterns in the social media response to the new smoking regulation. We found that the number of posts with a positive attitude toward the regulation was considerably higher than that of the posts with a negative attitude toward the regulation. Our findings may assist public health policy makers to better understand the policy's intentions, scope, and potential effects on public interest and support evidence-based public health regulations in the future.
关键词	cigarette smoking regulations social media information networks
DOI	10.2196/14660
关键词[WOS]	ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES ; NETWORK ANALYSIS ; HEALTH ; TWITTER ; SMOKERS
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	Ministry of Science and Technology of China[2017YFC0820105] ; Ministry of Science and Technology of China[2016QY02D0305] ; Ministry of Health of China[2017ZX10303401-002] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)[71621002] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)[71974187] ; CAS[ZDRW-XH-2017-3] ; Research Foundation of SKL-MCCS for Young Scientists[20190212]
项目资助者	Ministry of Science and Technology of China ; Ministry of Health of China ; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) ; CAS ; Research Foundation of SKL-MCCS for Young Scientists
WOS研究方向	Health Care Sciences & Services ; Medical Informatics
WOS类目	Health Care Sciences & Services ; Medical Informatics
WOS记录号	WOS:000528775900001
出版者	JMIR PUBLICATIONS, INC
七大方向——子方向分类	社会计算
引用统计	被引频次：2[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.ia.ac.cn/handle/173211/39392
专题	多模态人工智能系统全国重点实验室_互联网大数据与信息安全
通讯作者	Wen, Wanting
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Automat, State Key Lab Management & Control Complex Syst, 95 Zhongguancun East Rd, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Sch Artificial Intelligence, Beijing, Peoples R China 3.Shenzhen Artificial Intelligence & Data Sci Inst, Shenzhen, Peoples R China 4.Calif Polytech State Univ San Luis Obispo, Orfalea Coll Business, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 USA 5.Arizona State Univ, Coll Hlth Solut, Phoenix, AZ USA
第一作者单位	中国科学院自动化研究所
通讯作者单位	中国科学院自动化研究所
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wen, Wanting,Zhang, Zhu,Li, Ziqiang,et al. Public Reactions to the Cigarette Control Regulation on a Chinese Microblogging Platform: Empirical Analysis[J]. JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH,2020,22(4):13.
APA	Wen, Wanting.,Zhang, Zhu.,Li, Ziqiang.,Liang, Jiaqi.,Zhan, Yongcheng.,...&Leischow, Scott J..(2020).Public Reactions to the Cigarette Control Regulation on a Chinese Microblogging Platform: Empirical Analysis.JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH,22(4),13.
MLA	Wen, Wanting,et al."Public Reactions to the Cigarette Control Regulation on a Chinese Microblogging Platform: Empirical Analysis".JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH 22.4(2020):13.