scholarly journals How Is the Performance of Chinese News Media in Kenya? An Analysis of Perceived Audience Reception and Motivation

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Audience Reception ◽  
Chinese News Media

How to Tell the Truth without Outraging the Press?

MedienJournal ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Li Xiguang
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Stories ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government ◽  
Chinese News Media

The commercialization of meclia in China has cultivated a new journalism business model characterized with scandalization, sensationalization, exaggeration, oversimplification, highly opinionated news stories, one-sidedly reporting, fabrication and hate reporting, which have clone more harm than good to the public affairs. Today the Chinese journalists are more prey to the manipu/ation of the emotions of the audiences than being a faithful messenger for the public. Une/er such a media environment, in case of news events, particularly, during crisis, it is not the media being scared by the government. but the media itself is scaring the government into silence. The Chinese news media have grown so negative and so cynica/ that it has produced growing popular clistrust of the government and the government officials. Entering a freer but fearful commercially mediated society, the Chinese government is totally tmprepared in engaging the Chinese press effectively and has lost its ability for setting public agenda and shaping public opinions. 

scholarly journals When London Hit the Headlines: Historical Analogy and the Chinese Media Discourse on Air Pollution

2017 ◽  
Vol 234 ◽  
pp. 357-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongtao Li ◽  
Rune Svarverud
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Chinese Media ◽  
Government Action ◽  
Pollution Problem ◽  
Historical Analogy ◽  
Chinese News Media

AbstractThis article analyses how Chinese media make sense of smog and air pollution in China through the lens of London's past. Images of London, the fog city, have figured in the Chinese press since the 1870s, and this collective memory has made London a powerful yet malleable tool for discursive contestation on how to frame China's current air pollution problem, which constitutes part of news media's hegemonic and counter-hegemonic practices. Although the classic images of London as a fog city persist to the present day, the new narrative centres on the 1952 Great Smog, which was rediscovered and mobilized by Chinese news media to build an historical analogy. In invoking this foreign past, official media use London to naturalize the smog problem in China and justify the official stance, while commercialized media emphasize the bitter lessons to be learned and call for government action.

scholarly journals The Impact of the News Frames on Report of the 2020 Pandemic in China’s National Media

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Tang Hai ◽  
Zhu Zhe ◽  
Qi Lihong
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Frame Theory ◽  
Medical Community ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
News Frames ◽  
Chinese Media ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Foreign Media ◽  
Chinese News Media ◽  
The Impact

News frames is a general application of the Frame Theory in journalistic practice, and the setting of the Frame Theory in news media, to some extent, may make the news agency have more choices of the topics, more channels of the report, and more impacts on readers and audiences. It is for this reason that news media are very interested in setting up their news frame to guide their reportage. It won’t be surprised that when important affairs took place, the media set a theme for their coverage; while at the same time, audiences recognized that they are allowed to know the facts as well to evaluate the events properly. The coverage of disaster news is one of the concrete examples. However, when reading the reportage framework of the news in China, it can be seen that media would be likely to set similar frames for the focus of the report, and this potentially created complexity and difficulty in analyzing disaster news events in terms of content classification, reporting form, and news-making on effectiveness. The outbreak of the 2020 COVID-19 gathered media to work on a centralized proposal – anti-epidemic, so that textual, audio-visual contents and other forms of reporting show a diversified perspective for disaster news. This reporting from is a new challenge for Chinese news media, reflected in their practice on how Chinese government and people fought against the virus, how Chinese medical community dispatched their team to assist COVID-19 fight, and how Chinese media responded to the vilification of foreign media during that period. This paper takes three established media Hubei Daily, CCTV and China Daily as examples for an in-depth analysis.

Keep Silent, Keep Sinful: Mainstream Newspapers’ Representation of Gay Men and Lesbians in Contemporary China

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 317-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiang Chang ◽  
Hailong Ren
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
News Media ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Traditional Values ◽  
Social Instability ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Chinese News Media ◽  
The Way

From a critical discourse analysis of all gay-related news reports in five mainstream Beijing newspapers between 2010 and 2015, this article distils four dominant categories of images of gays and lesbians represented by the news media: gays as crime victims because of their presumed inherent weakness, as violent subjects, as enemies of traditional values and as a source of social instability. This means that despite legal and official recognition of homosexuality in China, it is still tainted with sin and perversion in the mainstream public discourse. The way in which the Chinese news media and journalists construct the image of the homosexual person notably differs from that in the West. Newspapers treat gay men and lesbians separately, with the former deemed socially destabilising elements of violence and promiscuity and the latter seen as closer to ‘normal’ heterosexuals in the way they think and act. In addition, Chinese news reports almost completely silence gay people who are rarely interviewed, and the few who are see only their expressions of shame or regret published. This article discusses and interprets such discursive strategies within the specific sociocultural context of Chinese society.

Climate change in China: A study of news diversity in party-sponsored and market-oriented newspapers

Journalism ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 146488491987317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ran Duan ◽  
Serena Miller
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
News Media ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Scientific Uncertainty ◽  
Chinese Media ◽  
Media Frames ◽  
Multiple Viewpoints ◽  
Media System ◽  
Media Ecosystem ◽  
Chinese News Media

Chinese news publications potentially play a crucial role in mitigating global climate change. Presently, the majority of scholars treat the Chinese news media system as one single entity. We expect, however, Chinese party-sponsored and market-oriented newspapers differ in their representation of climate change. Using the conceptual framework of news diversity, we examined how Chinese journalists reported on climate change by examining their use of media frames, source types, and multiple viewpoints in news articles. The results revealed that market-oriented newspapers were indeed significantly different by including more diverse viewpoints, conflict frames, and environmental nongovernmental organizational sources, while party-sponsored newspapers employed more domestic political, science, and scientific uncertainty frames. The results suggest that researchers should be cautious about generalizing past findings to the entire Chinese media ecosystem because it is unique, diverse, and complex.

scholarly journals Online Readers’ Comments as Popular Texts: Public Opinions of Paid Duty Policing in Canada

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Luscombe ◽  
Kevin Walby ◽  
Randy K. Lippert
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Audience Reception ◽  
Public Opinions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Core Concepts ◽  
Il Y A ◽  
Controversial Topic ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Analyse De Contenu ◽  
Popular Texts

Background  Despite paid-duty policing and associated public opinions being an increasingly controversial topic in Canadian news media, there has been limited research about them.Analysis  This article combines discourse and content analyses to examine the public opinions towards paid-duty policing in Canada expressed in the online readers’ comment sections of news articles. Conceptualizing comments as popular texts, the article discerns several themes, including police impartiality, reputation, expertise, and performance. Most comments centered on the economics of paid duty.Conclusion and implications  The article concludes by considering why economics prevailed over other themes and reflects on core concepts in the literature on online comment boards, including interactivity and counter-publics.Keywords  Public opinions; Readers’ comments; Discourse analysis; Content analysis; Audience reception; Media theory; PolicingContexte  Il y a eu peu de recherches sur les services rémunérés de la police ou sur l’opinion publique envers ceux-ci, même s’ils deviennent un sujet de plus en plus controversé dans les médias canadiens.Analyse  Nous effectuons des analyses de discours et de contenu pour examiner les sections de commentaires en ligne accompagnant certains articles sur l’actualité. En envisageant ces commentaires comme textes populaires, nous discernons divers thèmes relatifs à la police, y compris son impartialité, sa réputation, sa compétence et sa performance. La plupart des commentaires font mention de l’économie des services rémunérés.Conclusion et implications  Nous terminons notre article en considérant pourquoi l’économie a prévalu sur d'autres thèmes dans les commentaires en ligne et en nous interrogeant sur des concepts centraux dans la recherche sur ce sujet tels que l’interactivité et les contre-publics.Mots clés  Opinions publiques; Commentaires des lecteurs; Analyse du discours; Analyse de contenu; Réception publique; Théorie des médias; Maintien de l’ordre

How to Tell the Truth without Outraging the Press?

MedienJournal ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 37-51
Author(s):  
Li Xiguang
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Stories ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government ◽  
Chinese News Media

The commercialization of meclia in China has cultivated a new journalism business model characterized with scandalization, sensationalization, exaggeration, oversimplification, highly opinionated news stories, one-sidedly reporting, fabrication and hate reporting, which have clone more harm than good to the public affairs. Today the Chinese journalists are more prey to the manipu/ation of the emotions of the audiences than being a faithful messenger for the public. Une/er such a media environment, in case of news events, particularly, during crisis, it is not the media being scared by the government. but the media itself is scaring the government into silence. The Chinese news media have grown so negative and so cynica/ that it has produced growing popular clistrust of the government and the government officials. Entering a freer but fearful commercially mediated society, the Chinese government is totally tmprepared in engaging the Chinese press effectively and has lost its ability for setting public agenda and shaping public opinions. 

scholarly journals Chinese News Media Discourse of Doulas and Doula Care

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 243-252
Author(s):  
Zehui Dai
Keyword(s):  
Maternal Health ◽  
News Media ◽  
Chinese Women ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Critical Feminist ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
Chinese News Media

This article highlights the relationships among Chinese society, the discourse about doulas and doula care in childbirth, and Chinese women. The author used a critical feminist lens to analyze the discourse about doulas, doula care in childbirth, and women in Chinese mainstream news media. This analysis showed that the Chinese news media and government encouraged and promoted becoming a doula as a profession and doula care in labor in terms of cultural, social, and political factors. An argument was presented that these discourses obscure a nuanced understanding of Chinese women’s maternal health in general.

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