阴齿在线:外媒依靠中国微博报道舆情

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    读者们可能已经注意到,中国英语新闻越来越多的提到网民,微博,尤其是微博运营商新浪微博。        Angel Hsu注意到这种趋势正在不断增长,我不由得想亲自核对一下。

For a really rough measure of how much foreign reporters are depending on Chinese microblogs to cover public sentiment, I searched LexisNexis’s “Major World Publications” database for mentions of China along with any one of the words “weibo,” “microblog,” or “micro-blog.” (Weibo, in addition to being Sina’s brand, literally means “micro blog.”)

    为了大概了解究竟有多少外媒记者依赖中国微博报道舆情,我检索了LexisNexis的“major world publication”数据库,搜索关键词“weibo,”“microblog”,“micro-blog”以获取与中国相关的报道。(weibo,除了是新浪的品牌,也是微博的意思。)

This measure is horribly imperfect. To begin with, some stories are double-counted, and there’s no reason to assume Nexis is representative of foreign media. Moreover, some of these mentions are stories about Sina Weibo itself, not quoting its users. I wrote one such article for Talking Points Memo.

   这种方法有很大的局限性。起初,很多新闻报道被重复计入,并且Nexis也不能算是外媒的代表。而且,很多涉及的部分是关于新浪微博本身的报道,而非引用其用户。我给talking points memo(谈话要点备忘录)写了一篇文章。

The trend, however, seems clear. After the first mentions in mid-2009, when Sina Weibo launched, Nexis shows few mentions until a surge beginning in late 2010. In the last few months, the trend is upward.*

    这种趋势显而易见。自2009年年中,新浪微博建立之初首次涉及之后,Nexis没有任何与之相关的文章,直到2010年末才再次出现。在最近的几个月,呈现上升趋势。

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*Note: I counted 76 stories so far in August 2011, which leads to an estimate of 262.
      注释:2011年8月,目前为止,共有76篇新闻报道计入在内,数据库中数值估计会达到262篇。  undefined