A REVIEW OF COVID NEWS IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Year 2022, Volume: 3 Issue: 3, 129 - 146, 28.03.2022

Emir Hambo

Abstract

Coronavırus pandemic affected everything and everyone by interfering in all aspects of human life. The daily publication of news about the coronavirus affects the psychological state of readers. This paper has the aim to determine the impact of published covid news through the survey method and whether it affects the spread of panic among the readers and visitors of the most visited news portal in Bosnia and Herzegovina Klix.ba. Furthermore, with content analysis, this paper is examining two periods of the 2020 (March-April; October-November) to determine if coronavirus news causes more discussion among readers and whether this affects the number of news shares on social networks. Also, this paper will determine the ratio of comments and shares from the beginning of the pandemic in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the time Bosnia and Herzegovina have registered the biggest number of deaths and daily infections. The results have shown and confirmed the hypothesis that the quantity of published news (positive or negative, fake or true) spreads panic among the visitors of the most visited Bosnian news web portal. Content analysis has shown that news regarding the numbers of daily infected people, and the once died from the infections attracted the most comments on the portal and shares on social media.

Keywords

Panic, Pandemic, Coronavirus, News, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Social Media, Panic, Pandemic, Coronavirus, News, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Social Media

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