Contesting legitimacy in China’s crisis communication: a framing analysis of reported social actors engaging in SARS and COVID-19

IF 2.1 2区 文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION Chinese Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2022-03-16 DOI:10.1080/17544750.2022.2049835
Zhan Zhang
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Abstract The study provided a framing analysis of China Daily in its coverage of the SARS and COVID-19 pandemics. By understanding social actors as a particular frame element, the study introduced word-frequency-based cluster analysis as a method of corpus collection and generation for qualitative frame analysis. The study identified four main social actor groups and 14 news frames during the two pandemics. The discursive centrality of the Chinese government among other social actors from China Daily and the persistent positive portrait of the government’s institutional performance under the responsibility-solution frame is discussed. The results imply that China’s crisis communication did not experience much change from reporting SARS to reporting COVID-19. In particular, the drop in frame diversity and the focus on information uniformity in reporting the pandemic may have limited the effectiveness of the Chinese news media in accessing international awareness and contributing to the global meaning construction of the unfolding crisis.
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中国危机传播的合法性之争:对参与SARS和COVID-19报道的社会行为者的框架分析
摘要本研究对《中国日报》对SARS和COVID-19大流行的报道进行了框架分析。通过将社会行为者理解为一个特定的框架元素,本研究引入了基于词频的聚类分析作为一种语料库收集和生成方法,用于定性框架分析。该研究确定了两次大流行期间的四个主要社会行为体群体和14个新闻框架。本文讨论了中国政府在《中国日报》其他社会行为体中的话语中心地位,以及在责任-解决方案框架下对政府制度绩效的持续正面描述。结果表明,从报告SARS到报告COVID-19,中国的危机沟通没有发生太大变化。特别是,在报道大流行时,框架多样性的下降和对信息一致性的关注可能限制了中国新闻媒体在获取国际意识和促进对正在发生的危机的全球意义构建方面的有效性。
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