Comparative analysis of social issues toward medical abortion using mifepristone in South Korea and the United States: Topic modeling and sentiment analysis
Minoh Ko, Dong-Young Park, Jung Mi Oh, Yun-Kyoung Song, Andrea Cioffi, Andrea Cioffi, Andrea Cioffi, Andrea Cioffi, Andrea Cioffi
TL;DR
This paper compares how media in South Korea and the U.S. portray mifepristone for medical abortion, finding differences in public sentiment and cultural influences.
Contribution
The study introduces a cross-cultural comparison of media discourse on mifepristone using text mining and sentiment analysis.
Findings
U.S. media coverage was polarized around clinical, legal, and access-related debates.
Korean articles focused on access barriers, safety concerns, and domestic approval urgency.
Negative sentiments in Korea were linked to cultural stigma surrounding abortion.
Abstract
This study aimed to compare social issues influencing the use of mifepristone for medical abortion between South Korea and the United States by analyzing media coverage through text mining techniques. News articles published between 2006 and 2022 related to mifepristone were collected using web scraping from representative news platforms in both countries. The collected data underwent preprocessing, followed by text analysis using the bag-of-words model. Topic modeling was conducted through Latent Dirichlet Allocation, and sentiment analysis involved using the lexicon-based methods specific to Korean and English texts. Analysis of 7,938 Korean and 650 United States articles revealed distinct patterns in media discourse on mifepristone and medical abortion. The United States coverage was polarized, encompassing clinical, legal, and access-related debates, whereas Korean articles…
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Taxonomy
TopicsReproductive Health and Contraception · Pharmacovigilance and Adverse Drug Reactions · Menstrual Health and Disorders