BRICS summit diplomacy: Constructing national identities through Russian and Chinese media coverage of the fifth BRICS summit in Durban, South Africa

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Grincheva ◽  
Jiayi Lu
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Chinese Media

Drowning Not Waving: The ‘Children Overboard’ Event and Australia's Fear of the other

2003 ◽  
Vol 109 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Slattery
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Global Village ◽  
Print News ◽  
The People ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Selection Of

The last few years have been an awakening time for the people, communities and governments of the global village. Escalating problems in the Middle East, global economic uncertainty and an increase in asylum seekers, refugees and migration worldwide have reignited tensions involving boundaries and borders, both geographical and cognitive. One event which highlighted these tensions in Australia, and which was given much media coverage, was the ‘children overboard’ event in October 2001. Utilising a selection of print news coverage of the event, this paper explores how the ‘children overboard’ event demarcated national identities and spaces through the construction and representation of ‘good’ Australian citizens and ‘bad’ asylum seeker ‘others’. Specifically referring to ‘children overboard’ as an ‘event’, I seek to highlight the constructed and representational nature of ‘children overboard’ as a media story and political tool, one which promoted a continuing threat of ‘others’ to the nation in order to gain support for government policy and legitimize national security, and in so doing creating a model of Australian citizenship and identity based upon fear.

scholarly journals An analysis of spousal competence and non-compellability in terms of section 198 of the Criminal Procedure Act

De Jure ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Melissa Lazarus ◽  
Dr Franaaz Khan
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Criminal Procedure ◽  
Biblical Principles ◽  
The Right

Marital privilege is founded on the biblical principles of the union between man and wife. Thus wives were not competent or compellable witnesses against their husbands. Over the years the privilege developed in English common law. South Africa codified the privilege through Section 198 of the Criminal Procedure Act 51 of 1977 which states that spouses cannot be compelled to testify against each other unless the crime for which the accused spouse is charged appears in the categories listed in Section 195 of the Act. There are many criticisms against affording a privilege to a particular class of persons - notably that the non-compellability exception given to spouses is unconstitutional as it violates the right to equality in terms of section 9 of the Constitution. Recent media coverage at the Zondo Commission highlighted this conundrum when the ex-minister's spouse was asked to testify. This article examines the merits of the unconstitutionality argument and concludes that spousal non-compellability fails to withstand the test against unfair discrimination on the basis of marital privilege. Finally, recommendations are proposed in this regard which examine the nature and evolution of spousal competence and non-compellability in South African law.

The Second Interlude: Other Worlds

2016 ◽  
pp. 148-166
Author(s):  
Mike Ashley
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
English Speaking

This chapter charts to growth of the sf magazine in other English speaking countries, chiefly Canada, Australia and Eire, but also South Africa and Singapore. This brought other national identities into science fiction, with a wide range of approaches from Canada’s remote individuality to Australia’s recognition of its aboriginal influences.

Leaders or “Guides” of Public Opinion? The Media Role of Chinese Foreign Policy Experts

Modern China ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 009770041988273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pascal Abb
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Chinese Foreign Policy ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Think Tank ◽  
Chinese Media ◽  
Public Expectations ◽  
The Media ◽  
International Issues

This article explores the growing role of think tank experts in Chinese media coverage on international issues and determines the degree to which voices in this spectrum diverge from each other as well as the official line espoused by China’s central media organs. It combines a large-sample sentiment analysis of commentaries published by three major institutes that have developed significant public profiles with an in-depth discussion of selected pieces written by especially prolific experts. Based on the results, I argue that Chinese expert commenters sometimes enrich media coverage and show a substantial variety in opinions among them, but prevailing political constraints, skewed incentives, and a slanted media environment keep them from realizing their full potential as public intellectuals. This limits their usefulness both for improving policy outcomes and for managing public expectations about China’s rise.

scholarly journals Negotiating climate change: A frame analysis of COP21 in British, American, and Chinese news media

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 519-533 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yeheng Pan ◽  
Michaël Opgenhaffen ◽  
Baldwin Van Gorp
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Frame Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Chinese Media ◽  
Climate Politics ◽  
Media Frames ◽  
Climate Negotiations ◽  
American Media

Climate negotiations have increasingly resonated with global governance and world power relations. However, media studies of climate change have paid relatively less attention to media frames of the problem solving. This study addresses this issue by examining the media coverage of COP21 from three countries that have considerable influence on climate politics: the United Kingdom, the United States, and China. By applying an inductive frame analysis, the study identified 10 media frames embedded in the discussions on climate negotiations. A deductive analysis further assessed the prevalence of these frames. The findings suggest that the frames were significantly influenced by the values of the established and emerging powers in the international policy area. The British and American media upheld the underlying norms that have long underpinned the existing Western-led order, while Chinese media coverage manifested a rising power in need of world recognition.

scholarly journals Conditional transparency: Differentiated news framings of COVID-19 severity in the pre-crisis stage in China

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. e0252062
Author(s):  
Yipeng Xi ◽  
Anfan Chen ◽  
Aaron Ng
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
News Article ◽  
Health Reporting ◽  
Traffic Flows ◽  
Chinese Media ◽  
Social Proximity ◽  
Public Health Reporting ◽  
Media Institutions ◽  
Media Ecosystem ◽  
Media Practices

Transparency of Chinese media coverage became an international controversy when the COVID-19 outbreak initially emerged in Wuhan, the eventual crisis epicenter in China. Unlike studies characterizing mass media in authoritarian contexts as government mouthpieces during a crisis, this study aims to disaggregate Chinese media practices to uncover differences in when, where, and how the severity of COVID-19 was reported. We examine differences in how media institutions reported the severity of the COVID-19 epidemic in China during the pre-crisis period from 1 January 2020 to 20 January 2020 in terms of both the “vertical” or hierarchical positions of media institutions in the Chinese media ecosystem and the “horizontal” positions of media institutions’ social proximity to Wuhan in terms of geographical human traffic flows. We find that the coverage of crisis severity is negatively associated with the media’s social proximity to Wuhan, but the effect varies depending on the positional prominence of a news article and situation severity. Implications of the institutions’ differentiated reporting strategies on future public health reporting in an authoritarian context are also discussed.

scholarly journals The Use of “Community” in South Africa's 2011 Local Government Elections

2015 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-111
Author(s):  
Udo Richard Averweg ◽  
Marcus Leaning
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Broad Spectrum ◽  
Media Coverage

In South Africa, local government elections are held every five years, with the next ones scheduled for 2016. During the last local government elections in 2011, much media coverage was given to political parties’ manifestos and slogans. They are frequently layered with social and political references, and the terms used are often emotionally resonant across a broad spectrum of the electorate. One term frequently found in such rhetoric is “community.” This article explores the term as it was used in a number of different political parties’ manifestos during the 2011 local government elections. The authors utilise research methods that allow a neutral interrogation of the manifestos.

Black Masculinities on Trial in Absentia: The Case of Oscar Pistorius in South Africa

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 499-515 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malose Langa ◽  
Adele Kirsten ◽  
Brett Bowman ◽  
Gill Eagle ◽  
Peace Kiguwa
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Fear Of Crime ◽  
White Male ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
South Africans ◽  
White Manhood ◽  
Black Man ◽  
Rich Material ◽  
Closed Door

This article explores the social representation of black masculinities as violent in the globally publicized case of the murder by Oscar Pistorius of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. This murder and the subsequent media interest it generated highlighted the manner in which fear of crime in South Africa, particularly amongst certain sectors of the population such as white, male gun owners and gun lobbyists, (including Pistorius and his family members) contributed to assertions about their right to own guns to defend their families and possessions against this perceived threat. Such claims were made despite statistical evidence showing that black South Africans are more likely to be victims of violent crime than white South Africans. Drawing upon media coverage of the trial, this article critically discusses the intersection between masculinity and racial identity with a particular focus on gun ownership as a symbol of hegemonic white manhood, and the parallel construction of black masculinities as violent and dangerous. The Oscar Pistorius trial offers rich material for this analysis: his entire defence was based on the view that the intruder he feared was almost certainly a black man who, as a legitimate target for the use of lethal force in self-defence, deserved to die from the four bullets fired through a closed door. It is argued that in his absence, the black man was ever-present at the Oscar Pistorius trial as a threatening figure whose calling into being was revealing of how black masculinities continue to be represented, relayed and received in particular ways in post-apartheid South Africa.

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