HIV/AIDS Metaphors and Terminology in Chinese News Articles, 2010-2024

A corpus of Chinese news articles published between 2010 and 2024 analyzed for HIV/AIDS discourse. The dataset, created by Yuhang Li and shared under CC-BY-4.0, contains extracted thematic networks, 19 categories of terminology for people living with HIV, and 12 categories of HIV/AIDS metaphors.

Use Cases

• Analyze the evolution of HIV/AIDS-related discourse based on a 14-year corpus of Chinese news articles.
• Study conceptual metaphors (e.g., war, journey, entity) used in media coverage of public health issues.
• Examine the relationship between stigmatizing terminology and thematic contexts like 'Prevention and control' or 'Society'.
• Track discursive shifts from individual perspectives to political narratives within media coverage.
• Apply network analysis methods to thematic communities identified from topic modeling.

Strengths

• Analysis covers a 14-year time span (2010-2024) of media data.
• Identifies 48 distinct topics grouped into 5 major thematic communities.
• Categorizes 19 types of PLHIV terminology and 12 types of HIV/AIDS metaphors.
• Employs multiple analytical methods (ANTMN, collocation analysis, MCA).

Limitations

• The dataset is very small (5.5 KB), suggesting it contains aggregated analysis results, not the raw article corpus.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for some quantitative tasks.

Provenance

Source

Yuhang Li via figshare.

Collection Method

Analysis of a large-scale corpus of Chinese news articles using Analysis of Topic Model Networks (ANTMN) and collocation analysis.

Time Range

2010 to 2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-13 17:35:44; freshness should be verified.

Geography

China