An expert-curated global database of online newspaper articles on spiders and spider bites.
Journal
Scientific data
ISSN: 2052-4463
Titre abrégé: Sci Data
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101640192
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
28 03 2022
28 03 2022
Historique:
received:
01
10
2021
accepted:
07
02
2022
entrez:
29
3
2022
pubmed:
30
3
2022
medline:
15
4
2022
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
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 identified and unidentified spider species and 2644 unique human-spider encounters (1121 bites and 147 as deadly bites). To facilitate data reuse, we explain the main caveats that need to be made when analysing this database and discuss research ideas and questions that can be explored with it.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35347145
doi: 10.1038/s41597-022-01197-6
pii: 10.1038/s41597-022-01197-6
pmc: PMC8960780
doi:
Substances chimiques
Spider Venoms
0
Types de publication
Dataset
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
109Informations de copyright
© 2022. The Author(s).
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