China's Local News Media

1981 ◽  
Vol 86 ◽  
pp. 322-331
Author(s):  
Vivienne Shue
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Chinese Tradition ◽  
Broadcast Networks ◽  
Local Newspapers ◽  
News Magazines ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Written Form ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
News Services ◽  
Local News Media

Publication of local newspapers and magazines was supported and largely flourished over much of China in the 1950s. Although for the most part western scholars had little access to the county dailies and smaller bulletins and tabloids of that period, it was apparent that the Chinese tradition of reporting and chronicling local events in written form continued with little interruption in many localities. In the early and mid 1960s, however, under both economic and political pressures, hundreds of county newspapers and other small publications were closed down or amalgamated. Since then, without much access to local or even many provincial newspapers, scholars outside China have known little of the structure and development of the local press and other news media.1 How many county newspapers survived the 1960s or were revived? To what extent have county wire broadcast networks been developed to meet the need for the dissemination of local information to rural and urban populations? What impact, if any, have the news services of these broadcast networks had on remaining local and provincial newspapers? With the current publishing boom in China, should we expect widespread revival of county-level newspapers or general news magazines?

Framing internal politics in a conflict situation: A study of the 2014 election campaign news in the local newspapers in the Indian-administered Kashmir region

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-132
Author(s):  
Arif Hussain Nadaf
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Political Polarization ◽  
Local News ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Local Newspapers ◽  
Conflict Situations ◽  
National Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Narratives ◽  
Local News Media

International conflict reporting and national media discourse of warring nations continue to dominate existing scholarship on media–conflict relationships. The literature on the subject lacks significant consideration towards understanding the relevance of local and sub-national media narratives in conflict situations. The existing literature on the media–conflict relationship in the conflict territory of Kashmir shows that the issue has been largely studied from the perspective of national news media in India and Pakistan. This study while engaging with the local news media in the Kashmir region, draws empirical evidence from the local newspapers in the context of the 2014 State Assembly election campaigns which took place amid unprecedented political polarization in the region. The findings from the content analysis revealed that the contested political issues between the political parties found higher resonance in the campaign news while the deliberation regarding the conflict in the region and its resolution had the least prevalence in the news discourse. This not only confirms the significant relevance of local news media and internal political dynamics in redefining the media–conflict relationship in the Kashmir conflict but also suggests the further need to engage with local and regional news narratives in conflict situations.

Discursive representation of the Article 370 abrogation: A comparative CDA of the headlines of two major Indian online news publications

Journalism ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 146488492110568
Author(s):  
Arif Hussain Nadaf
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Cognitive Model ◽  
Online News ◽  
Indian Government ◽  
Jammu And Kashmir ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
News Discourse ◽  
The Times ◽  
Local News Media

The Indian government on 5 August, 2019, unilaterally removed Article 370 of its constitution that provided autonomous status to the disputed region of Jammu and Kashmir. In order to pre-empt any backlash, the authorities put the entire region under strict lockdown and imposed a complete communication blackout including suspension of internet, mobile, and landline phone services. The Indian media vociferously covered the issue of higher “national interest” with no counter-narrative from local news media in the region. Using Van Djik’s socio-cognitive model, the study conducted comparative critical discourse analysis of the headlines from two major Indian online news publications; the English daily The Times of India and the Hindi daily Dainik Jagran to identify the discursive strategies adopted by these newspapers after the revocation of the Article 370. The study aimed to understand how Indian newspapers were shaping the discourse when the Indian government imposed communication restrictions and lockdown in the region. Through CDA, the study located the discursive strategies in the headlines and the ideological standpoints they reflected while covering the Article 370 controversy. The CDA found that the headline discourse in both the news publications was characterized by aggressive nationalistic assertion reinforcing domestic legitimacy for the government’s decision. The analysis further showed substantial evidence for the cultural distances between the English and Hindi language news discourse. Unlike English headlines, the Hindi headlines contained explicit linguistic subjectivities and were overtly hyperbolic in recognizing and blending itself with the nationalist assertion and socio-political expression around the abrogation of Article 370.

Boil Water Advisories as Risk Communication: Consistency between CDC Guidelines and Local News Media Articles

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Sydney O’Shay ◽  
Ashleigh M. Day ◽  
Khairul Islam ◽  
Shawn P. McElmurry ◽  
Matthew W. Seeger
Keyword(s):  
Risk Communication ◽  
News Media ◽  
Local News ◽  
Cdc Guidelines ◽  
Boil Water Advisories ◽  
Local News Media

scholarly journals Voicing the organization on Instagram: Towards a performative understanding of employee voice

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-212
Author(s):  
Cecilia Cassinger ◽  
Åsa Thelander
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Employee Voice ◽  
Employee Relations ◽  
Meaning Of Work ◽  
Specific Approach ◽  
Complex Organization ◽  
Collective Performance ◽  
Local News Media

Much is currently expected from what PR campaigns involving social media can accomplish with regard to strengthening employee voice. Previous research on voice as a specific approach to employee relations has primarily relied on the effects and mechanisms of voice. There is scant research dealing with the processes and practices of employee voice. This article outlines a performative approach to conceptualizing the practice of employee voice. It focuses on how employees perform voice in a PR campaign involving Instagram takeover. The campaign was launched by a complex organization in Scandinavia, aimed at countering negative attention in local news media and improving the reputation of the organization. This article analyses the conditions of voicing concerns in the campaign through the lens of a dramaturgical approach to social life. First, the findings indicate that voicing is a form of individual and collective performance through which the meaning of work and the campaign are negotiated in relation to both other participants and an imagined audience. Second, visual conventions and organizational culture were found to govern performances of voice on Instagram. Third, findings underscore the need to understand employee voice as a socially and culturally embedded practice.

Reclaiming the Past, Building a Future: Māori Identity in the Plays of Hone Kouka

2001 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
World War I ◽  
The Other ◽  
World War ◽  
The Past ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
The Future ◽  
The 1960S

Hone Kouka's historical plays Nga Tangata Toa and Waiora, created and produced in Aotearoa/New Zealand, one set in the immediate aftermath of World War I, and the other during the great Māori urban migrations of the 1960s, provide fresh insights into the way in which individual Māori responded to the tremendous social disruptions they experienced during the twentieth century. Much like the Māori orator who prefaces his formal interactions with a statement of his whakapapa (genealogy), Kouka reassembles the bones of both his ancestors, and those of other Māori, by demonstrating how the present is constructed by the past, offering a view of contemporary Māori identity that is traditional and modern, rural and urban, respectful of the past and open to the future.

The legitimization of the use of sweat shops by H&M in the Swedish press

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir Cotal San Martin ◽  
David Machin
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Action ◽  
News Media ◽  
Global South ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Social Actor ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Action Analysis ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Sweat Shops

Abstract In the Swedish news-media we find sporadic critical, or reflective, reporting on the production conditions of Swedish ‘sweat-shop’ factories in the Global South, used to supply Transnational Corporations (TNCs). In this paper we carry out a critical discourse analysis, in particular using Van Leeuwen’s social actor and social action analysis, to look at examples from a larger corpus of 88 news reports and editorials from the Swedish press, between 2012–2017, which report and comment on activities of the Swedish company H&M in relation to its production chains. Analysis reveals how these recontextualize events, processes and motives, to represent Sweden and Swedish TNCs as characterized by a benevolent, democratic, humane, form of capitalism, drawing on discourses of a former social democratic Sweden of the 1960s before it became highly neo-liberalized. This nationalism converges with other discourses promoting the exploitation of the Global South.

All the Love is on the Radio: Local Media, Cyclone Larry and an Injunction to Care

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-145
Author(s):  
Deb Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
News Media ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Local News ◽  
Local Media ◽  
Media Research ◽  
Disaster Reporting ◽  
Local News Media

Abstract Local news media play a key role in fostering citizen participation in public life and offer communities forms of supportive action during crisis, which lie at the heart of compassion. Through the lens of emotion, we can see that ‘the story’ of local disaster reporting is one of being local, where the journalist’s position between involved actor and interpretive observer is anchored in compassion for the local. In turn, a focus on compassion illuminates the power of oral history as a means to contextualise the experience of disaster – in this case, how cyclones are made culturally meaningful – and expand media research on climate-related disaster.

Explaining the Prevalence of Voluntary Associations among 351 Massachusetts Municipalities circa 1965: Testing a Theory

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 177-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Horton Smith
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
State Government ◽  
Prevalence Index ◽  
General Validity ◽  
Local Newspapers ◽  
Weekly Newspapers ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Measure Of Association ◽  
Service Businesses ◽  
Administrative Center

Abstract Data from an extensive research project in the state of Massachusetts (USA), collected in the 1960s and never before reported, are used to test a theory of association prevalence among 351 municipalities. The dependent variable to be explained was an Association Prevalence Index (total number existing) in each municipality. The Index was derived from Massachusetts Statehouse physical records for all incorporated Nonprofit Organizations (NPOs), and showed an average of 33 associations per municipality. Using bivariate correlations, the results confirmed the theory generally. Association prevalence (raw number of associations) in a municipality was positively and significantly related to larger population size, being a county administrative center, more business telephones, greater circulation of weekly newspapers (local newspapers), more service businesses, more state government agencies, more churches, larger percentage of African-Americans, and more halls/buildings available for association gatherings (meetings, events). Contrary to the theory, the socioeconomic status of municipalities was not significantly related to association prevalence. The Statehouse Association Prevalence Index was correlated very highly (r = .92) with an independent measure of association prevalence, derived from coding the “Yellow Pages” of phone books. This result indicates the reliability and general validity of both prevalence measures.

Manufacturing a Crime Wave: The Gold Coast Saga

2014 ◽  
Vol 151 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-36
Author(s):  
Emily Schindeler ◽  
Jacqui Ewart
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Gold Coast ◽  
Media Campaign ◽  
Crime Problem ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Statistical Level ◽  
Crime Wave ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
Local News Media

Crime waves make great headlines, and can be an ongoing source of stories for news media. In this article, we track the news media promotion of the spectre of a crime wave at Queensland's Gold Coast and the interplay between politics and policy responses to the media campaign. By analysing news media reports, government, local government and police-documented responses, we explore how the media framed this crime wave and the politically driven policy responses that were disproportionate to the reported (statistical) level of crime. Despite attempts by the Queensland Police Service to defuse the claims of an out-of-control crime problem, followed by its attempts at managing community responses, the local news media continued their campaign with significant consequences. Our findings are important for those charged with publicly managing responses to media-driven crime waves.

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