An expert-curated global database of online newspaper articles on spiders and spider bites.

ABSTRACT: Mass media plays an important role in the construction and circulation of risk perception associated with animals. Widely feared groups such as spiders frequently end up in the spotlight of traditional and social media. We compiled an expert-curated global database on the online newspaper coverage of human-spider encounters over the past ten years (2010-2020). This database includes information about the location of each human-spider encounter reported in the news article and a quantitative characterisation of the content-location, presence of photographs of spiders and bites, number and type of errors, consultation of experts, and a subjective assessment of sensationalism. In total, we collected 5348 unique news articles from 81 countries in 40 languages. The database refers to 211 identi

SUBMITTER: Mammola S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8960780 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature