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

dc.contributor.authorMammola, Stefano
dc.contributor.authorMalumbres-Olarte, Jagoba
dc.contributor.authorArabesky, Valeria
dc.contributor.authorBarrales-Alcala, Diego Alejandro
dc.contributor.authorBarrion-Dupo, Aimee Lynn
dc.contributor.authorBenamú, Marco Antonio
dc.contributor.authorBird, Tharina L.
dc.contributor.authorBogomolova, Maria
dc.contributor.authorCardoso, Pedro
dc.contributor.authorChatzaki, Maria
dc.contributor.authorCheng, Ren-Chung
dc.contributor.authorChu, Tien-Ai
dc.contributor.authorClassen-Rodríguez, Leticia M.
dc.contributor.authorCupic, Iva
dc.contributor.authorDhiya’ulhaq, Naufal Urfi
dc.contributor.authorDrapeau Picard, Andre-Philippe
dc.contributor.authorEl-Hennawy, Hisham K.
dc.contributor.authorElverici, Mert
dc.contributor.authorFukushima, Caroline S.
dc.contributor.authorGanem, Zeana
dc.contributor.authorGavish-Regev, Efrat
dc.contributor.authorGonnye, Naledi T.
dc.contributor.authorHacala, Axel
dc.contributor.authorHaddad, Charles R.
dc.contributor.authorHesselberg, Thomas
dc.contributor.authorHo, Tammy Ai Tian
dc.contributor.authorInto, Thanakorn
dc.contributor.authorIsaia, Marco
dc.contributor.authorJayaraman, Dharmaraj
dc.contributor.authorKaruaera, Nanguei
dc.contributor.authorKhalap, Rajashree
dc.contributor.authorKhalap, Kiran
dc.contributor.authorKim, Dongyoung
dc.contributor.authorKorhonen, Tuuli
dc.contributor.authorKralj-Fiser, Simona
dc.contributor.authorLand, Heidi
dc.contributor.authorLin, Shou-Wang
dc.contributor.authorLoboda, Sarah
dc.contributor.authorLowe, Elizabeth
dc.contributor.authorLubin, Yael
dc.contributor.authorMartínez, Alejandro
dc.contributor.authorMbo, Zingisile
dc.contributor.authorMilicic, Marija
dc.contributor.authorKioko, Grace Mwende
dc.contributor.authorNanni, Veronica
dc.contributor.authorNorma- Rashid, Yusoff
dc.contributor.authorNwankwo, Daniel
dc.contributor.authorPainting, Christina J.
dc.contributor.authorPang, Aleck
dc.contributor.authorPantini, Paolo
dc.contributor.authorPavlek, Martina
dc.contributor.authorPearce, Richard
dc.contributor.authorPetcharad, Booppa
dc.contributor.authorPetillon, Julien
dc.contributor.authorRaberahona, Onjaherizo Christian
dc.contributor.authorSaarinen, Joni A .
dc.contributor.authorSegura-Hernández, Laura
dc.contributor.authorSentenska, Lenka
dc.contributor.authorUhl, Gabriele
dc.contributor.authorWalker, Leilani
dc.contributor.authorWarui, Charles M.
dc.contributor.authorWiśniewski, Konrad
dc.contributor.authorZamani, Alireza
dc.contributor.authorScott, Catherine
dc.contributor.authorChuang, Angela
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-14T08:53:13Z
dc.date.available2023-11-14T08:53:13Z
dc.date.issued2022-03-28*
dc.descriptionAdditional information Supplementary information The online version contains supplementary material available at https://DOI. org/10.1038/s41597-022-01197-6.en_US
dc.descriptionAuthor contributions Conceptualization: SM, JM-O, CS, AC; Data collection & validation: all authors; Data management: SM, VN, AC; Data analysis & visualization (Figs. 2–5): SM; Summary illustration (Fig. 1): JM-O; Writing (first draft): SM; Writing, contributions: JM-O, CS, AC; All authors read the text, provided comments, suggestions, and corrections, and approved the final version.en_US
dc.descriptionCode availability The R code to generate analyses and figures is available in GitHub (https://github.com/StefanoMammola/ Analysis_Global-Spider-News-Database).en_US
dc.description.abstractMass 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.en_US
dc.description.departmentZoology and Entomologyen_US
dc.description.librarianam2023en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipAcknowledgements We are grateful to Dr. Ingi Agnarsson for checking the presence of spider-related news in Icelandic newspapers. Thanks to Dr. Aino K. Juslen and the Finnish Museum of Natural History (LUOMUS; University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland) for financially supporting the publication of this work.en_US
dc.description.urihttp://www.nature.com/sdata/en_US
dc.identifier.citationMammola, S., Malumbres-Olarte, J., Arabesky, V. 2022, 'An expert-curated global database of online newspaper articles on spiders and spider bites', Scientific Data, vol. 9, no. 109, pp. -12. DOI : 10.1038/s41597-022-01197-6en_US
dc.identifier.issn2052-4463
dc.identifier.other10.1038/s41597-022-01197-6
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/93303
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherNature Researchen_US
dc.rights© The Author(s) 2022. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.en_US
dc.subjectMass mediaen_US
dc.subjectAnimalsen_US
dc.subjectCaveatsen_US
dc.subjectHuman-spideren_US
dc.titleAn expert-curated global database of online newspaper articles on spiders and spider bitesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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