A longitudinal analysis of usage patterns, topics, and information dissemination related to five names for cultured meat on social media
Cultured-meat products, which have been hailed for their potential to address multiple drawbacks of traditional meat production, have received regulatory approval in countries including Singapore and the United States and are experiencing rapid market growth. The name of any product could influence...
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| author | Tianli Chen Leona Yi-Fan Su Yee Man Margaret Ng Yi-Cheng Wang |
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| description | Cultured-meat products, which have been hailed for their potential to address multiple drawbacks of traditional meat production, have received regulatory approval in countries including Singapore and the United States and are experiencing rapid market growth. The name of any product could influence public perceptions of it, and thereby affect consumption; and how cultured-meat products should be labeled remains the subject of debate. However, conducting large-scale consumer tests aimed at understanding the association between public perceptions of such products and the various proposed labels/names for them would be time-consuming and expensive. Therefore, this longitudinal research project on how five common cultured-meat labels have been used, and the associations between particular labels and public perceptions, instead relied on 424,382 relevant messages posted or retweeted on Twitter/X between July 2010 and December 2022. This novel approach enabled us to identify a dynamic interplay between label choice and public perceptions, and that each label was associated with a unique set of topics. Also, using social-network analysis, we were able to delineate the structures of cultured meat-related retweet networks and identify the key influencers within them. Our analysis revealed the importance of labeling within the challenging process of arriving at a consensus about what cultured meat should be called. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-8b3d09df10b945c49a8a90b6c77b3c1b2024-12-13T11:03:16ZengElsevierCurrent Research in Food Science2665-92712024-01-019100859A longitudinal analysis of usage patterns, topics, and information dissemination related to five names for cultured meat on social mediaTianli Chen0Leona Yi-Fan Su1Yee Man Margaret Ng2Yi-Cheng Wang3Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USACharles H. Sandage Department of Advertising, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA; Corresponding author.Department of Journalism, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USADepartment of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA; Corresponding author.Cultured-meat products, which have been hailed for their potential to address multiple drawbacks of traditional meat production, have received regulatory approval in countries including Singapore and the United States and are experiencing rapid market growth. The name of any product could influence public perceptions of it, and thereby affect consumption; and how cultured-meat products should be labeled remains the subject of debate. However, conducting large-scale consumer tests aimed at understanding the association between public perceptions of such products and the various proposed labels/names for them would be time-consuming and expensive. Therefore, this longitudinal research project on how five common cultured-meat labels have been used, and the associations between particular labels and public perceptions, instead relied on 424,382 relevant messages posted or retweeted on Twitter/X between July 2010 and December 2022. This novel approach enabled us to identify a dynamic interplay between label choice and public perceptions, and that each label was associated with a unique set of topics. Also, using social-network analysis, we were able to delineate the structures of cultured meat-related retweet networks and identify the key influencers within them. Our analysis revealed the importance of labeling within the challenging process of arriving at a consensus about what cultured meat should be called.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2665927124001850NomenclatureFood labelingPublic perceptionsTwitterSocial-network analysis |
| spellingShingle | Tianli Chen Leona Yi-Fan Su Yee Man Margaret Ng Yi-Cheng Wang A longitudinal analysis of usage patterns, topics, and information dissemination related to five names for cultured meat on social media Current Research in Food Science Nomenclature Food labeling Public perceptions Social-network analysis |
| title | A longitudinal analysis of usage patterns, topics, and information dissemination related to five names for cultured meat on social media |
| title_full | A longitudinal analysis of usage patterns, topics, and information dissemination related to five names for cultured meat on social media |
| title_fullStr | A longitudinal analysis of usage patterns, topics, and information dissemination related to five names for cultured meat on social media |
| title_full_unstemmed | A longitudinal analysis of usage patterns, topics, and information dissemination related to five names for cultured meat on social media |
| title_short | A longitudinal analysis of usage patterns, topics, and information dissemination related to five names for cultured meat on social media |
| title_sort | longitudinal analysis of usage patterns topics and information dissemination related to five names for cultured meat on social media |
| topic | Nomenclature Food labeling Public perceptions Social-network analysis |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2665927124001850 |
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