Tell China's Story Well?

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-40
Author(s):  
Bingjuan Xiong
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Media Framing ◽  
International Communication ◽  
Online News ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Media Frames ◽  
News Website ◽  
China Daily

The development of new media transforms human communication experiences in ways that are socially, culturally, and politically meaningful. This study investigates the Chinese government's use of new media in response to an international communication crisis, the Ai Weiwei case, in 2011. Through a discourse analysis of China's official online news website, China Daily, as well as Twitter posts, most salient media frames in China's online media discourse are identified. The results suggest that online contestation of media framing in China's official media discourse contributes to the formation of new cultural expectations and norms in Chinese society and challenges the government's ability to tell its own stories without dispute. The author argues that new media foster online discussion and stimulate public debate of China's accountability and transparency in interacting with domestic and global audiences during crisis communication.

Tell China's Story Well?

2019 ◽  
pp. 451-466
Author(s):  
Bingjuan Xiong
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Media Framing ◽  
International Communication ◽  
Online News ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Media Frames ◽  
News Website ◽  
China Daily

The development of new media transforms human communication experiences in ways that are socially, culturally, and politically meaningful. This study investigates the Chinese government's use of new media in response to an international communication crisis, the Ai Weiwei case, in 2011. Through a discourse analysis of China's official online news website, China Daily, as well as Twitter posts, most salient media frames in China's online media discourse are identified. The results suggest that online contestation of media framing in China's official media discourse contributes to the formation of new cultural expectations and norms in Chinese society and challenges the government's ability to tell its own stories without dispute. The author argues that new media foster online discussion and stimulate public debate of China's accountability and transparency in interacting with domestic and global audiences during crisis communication.

scholarly journals Efek Bingkai Hasil Survei Berita Online Terhadap Heuristik Individu

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Angga Ariestya
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Media Framing ◽  
Framing Effects ◽  
Online News ◽  
Cognitive Effect ◽  
Political News ◽  
The People ◽  
The Individual

Indonesian people oftenly consume online news that present figures on survey result, not only political news but also other news, for instance, news headline stated 63 percent of the people in average agreed to cabinet reshuffle. It was not stated 37 percent of the people in average did not agree to a cabinet reshuffle which has the same meaning. An attractive online news frame will potentially get clicks from its audience. In theories, news framing effects in general has a cognitive effect on the audience, including the frame of the survey results. However, a different view says that new media presence, especially the internet and Web 2.0 technology, has changed the fundamental of mass communication, which makes the minimum effect of new media framing and difficulty to measure because the emergence of preference-based effects as a nature of the online media environment. This interesting research tries to examine the effects of framing in the realm of psychology, which is still quite rarely done in framing effects studies by using experimental quantitative methods that test individual heuristic assessments. Framing with the results of the survey turned out to have an effect on the individual heuristic who read it. The study will prove that the framing effects remain exist even in new media platforms. The findings presented in this article are expected to contribute to the development of framing theories and media effects.

Ironic Content Features in the Orthodox Media Discourse

2020 ◽  
pp. 71-86
Author(s):  
Alexandra Makarova
Keyword(s):  
Religious Discourse ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Cultural Methods ◽  
Religious Communication ◽  
The Media ◽  
To Come ◽  
Sphere Of Influence

The religious communication is the most ancient of human communication types. The pragmatic linguistics as well as rhetoric shows a special attitude to this special type of discourse. Today the Internet text with its unlimited abilities is being in the focus of linguists’ attention. That is why the orthodox journalists are covering not only print media but also the Internet that helps to widen the sphere of influence on the people’s minds and souls. The analyses show that the media context of the Orthodox sites (such as The Orthodox people laugh and etc.) includes humorous publications that prove the necessity of studying peculiarities of religious communication and humorous texts in orthodox sites. The integrative approach including content analyses, discourse and linguistic cultural methods helps the author to come to a conclusion that orthodox media texts are distinguished by intertextuality, hypertextuality, creolism, and the authors want to influence the addressee in the most effective way. To define the communicative task, the missionary function should be taken into account which is peculiar to the religious discourse.

scholarly journals Mobilization, Mass Perceptions, and (Dis)information: “New” and “Old” Media Consumption Patterns and Protest

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 205630512199965
Author(s):  
Olga Onuch ◽  
Emma Mateo ◽  
Julian G. Waller
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Online News ◽  
Consumption Patterns ◽  
Media Consumption ◽  
Mass Mobilization ◽  
Protest Literature ◽  
Frequent Consumption ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Mass Protest

When people join in moments of mass protest, what role do different media sources play in their mobilization? Do the same media sources align with positive views of mass mobilizations among the public in their aftermath? And, what is the relationship between media consumption patterns and believing disinformation about protest events? Addressing these questions helps us to better understand not only what brings crowds onto the streets, but also what shapes perceptions of, and disinformation about mass mobilization among the wider population. Employing original data from a nationally representative panel survey in Ukraine ( Hale, Colton, Onuch, & Kravets, 2014 ) conducted shortly after the 2013–2014 EuroMaidan mobilization, we examine patterns of media consumption among both participants and non-participants, as well as protest supporters and non-supporters. We also explore variation in media consumption among those who believe and reject disinformation about the EuroMaidan. We test hypotheses, prominent in current protest literature, related to the influence of “new” (social media and online news) and “old” media (television) on protest behavior and attitudes. Making use of the significance of 2014 Ukraine as a testing ground for Russian disinformation tactics, we also specifically test for consumption of Russian-owned television. Our findings indicate that frequent consumption of “old” media, specifically Russian-owned television, is significantly associated with both mobilization in and positive perceptions of protest and is a better predictor of believing “fake news” than consuming “new” media sources.

scholarly journals WAR Metaphor in the Chinese Economic Media Discourse

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chunyu Hu ◽  
Yuting Xu
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Model ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Social Resources ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Cooperative Principle ◽  
Critical Metaphor Analysis ◽  
War Metaphor ◽  
The Mind ◽  
China Daily

The economic media discourse depends upon a complex web of metaphors, among which WAR metaphor is worthy of special attention. The data used in this study is comprised of 2566 articles (about 1.2 million words) under the Economy column of China Daily published in 2014. Critical Metaphor Analysis (CMA) is used as the analytical framework to investigate WAR metaphor in the economic media discourse. This study is governed by the three steps of CMA including metaphor identification, metaphor interpretation and metaphor explanation. The results show that among the selected 62 lemmas, 40 of them have metaphorical instantiations and more than half of all the metaphorical expressions are nouns. Both social resources and individual resources influence metaphor choice. WAR metaphor has the rhetorical function as persuasion, which constructs the cognitive model of competition in the mind of the readers and arouses their emotions; on the other hand, it hides the cooperative principle of economic activities.

Hyperpartisan Sports Media in Trump’s America: The Metapolitics of Breitbart Sports

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 588-610 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Falcous ◽  
Matthew G. Hawzen ◽  
Joshua I. Newman
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Sexual Politics ◽  
Party Politics ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Sports Media ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Political Ideologies ◽  
News Website ◽  
American Society

The rise of Donald Trump has widely been seen as concurrent to the emergence of the “Alt-Right” that coalesces around intersecting themes of conservativism: White ethno-nationalist “race realism,” populism, misogyny, evangelical theocracy, border protectionism, and anti-liberalism. Media has been a key site of struggle in these developments, with attacks on mainstream media bringing into focus wider questions of truth and legitimacy in journalism. In particular, Trump’s rise has been synonymous with the heightened profile of the Breitbart News website, a purveyor of hyperpartisan, conservative political ideologies. In this article, we consider the place of Breitbart Sports within this dynamic political and media order. Our analysis of the lead-up to the 2016 Presidential election reveals the extent to which Breitbart Sports conveyed a vision of U.S. sport that promoted hard-right agendas in relation to U.S. global stewardship, veiled “race” reclamation discourses, media, immigration, social criticism, policing, sexual politics, and party politics. Breitbart Sports framing casts sport as a liberally infested cultural battleground, where conservativism is under threat. We conclude with a brief discussion about the role of new media in framing political exigencies and the role of sport in contemporary American society.

scholarly journals A STUDY OF TENSES USED IN ENGLISH ONLINE NEWS WEBSITE

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
pp. 248-258
Author(s):  
Jittra Muta ◽  
Nutprapha Dennis
Keyword(s):  
Online News ◽  
Past Tense ◽  
Present Perfect ◽  
Future Tense ◽  
Breaking News ◽  
Research Instrument ◽  
News Website ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Present Tense ◽  
Data Collections

The purposes of this study were to analyze and describe English tenses used in an online news website and to examine which types of English tenses are frequently used in an online news website. The material in this study was 20 news in Mini-Lessons from B r e a k I n g N e w s E n g l i s h .c o m. The research instrument was a checklist which determines and categorizes English tenses as past tense, present tense, and future tense. The data collections were analyzed with the frequency and percentage. The research findings of the study showed that all using of English tenses in the 20 news from the Mini-Lessons were 279 sentences; past tense were 155 sentences (56%), present tense were 120 sentences (43%), and future tense were 4 sentences (1%). The most English tenses aspect of the news were past simple tense and present tense; past simple tense, present simple tense, present perfect tense, and present progressive tense, respectively. In contrast, breaking news used the least English tenses aspect of the news was past perfect tense, future simple tense, past progressive tense, present perfect progressive tense, and future perfect tense, while there were no used past perfect progressive tense, future progressive tense, future perfect tense, and future perfect progressive tense in the 20 selected breaking news.

scholarly journals How Communication Scholars See Open Scholarship: A survey of International Communication Association scholars

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas David Bowman ◽  
Eike Mark Rinke ◽  
Eun-Ju Lee ◽  
Robin Nabi ◽  
Claes de Vreese
Keyword(s):  
International Communication ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Current State

A growing number of communication scholars have pushed for increased accountability and transparency in scholarship. While perspectives on open scholarship practices (OSPs) are noted in editorials and positions papers, we lack insights into how the larger community understands, feels about, engages with, and supports OSPs in practice. A mixed-methodological survey of International Communication Association members (N = 330) reported broad familiarity with and support for some OSPs, but less engagement with them. Respondents shared several concerns, including reservations about unclear standards, presumed incompatibility with some scholarly approaches, misuse of shared materials, and aggression from others. The reported findings inform debates around the current state and future directions of openness and transparency in the study of human communication.

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