Pub Date : 2024-06-14DOI: 10.1177/20594364241262681
Peng Duan
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for reliable information and news sources. In 2020, Xinhua News Agency launched “Zhiyun,” an epidemic reporting robot that can generate COVID-19 news reports based on visual data. This development raises key issues regarding the effectiveness of machine-generated news compared to traditional sources, especially news related to major public health events such as the pandemic. Using the Cognitive-Affective-Conative Model and ANCOVA method, this paper conducts experimental research to obtain data and studies the impact of machine-made news on the audience’s attitude towards COVID-19 news. The analysis used a 2 × 2 factorial online experimental method to test the impact of two variables: “theme” and “news format.” The research results indicate that the theme and news format significantly affect the audience’s attitude towards epidemic news, and machine-generated video news received a more positive response than news written by human journalists. Based on the results of this study, it can be concluded that machine-generated news has great potential to provide accessible and reliable information during major public health events such as COVID-19. This study has significant implications for the news industry, indicating the possibility of increasing the use of machine news production in the future.
{"title":"Analyzing drivers of attitudes toward machine video news: A Xinhua Zhiyun case study","authors":"Peng Duan","doi":"10.1177/20594364241262681","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20594364241262681","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for reliable information and news sources. In 2020, Xinhua News Agency launched “Zhiyun,” an epidemic reporting robot that can generate COVID-19 news reports based on visual data. This development raises key issues regarding the effectiveness of machine-generated news compared to traditional sources, especially news related to major public health events such as the pandemic. Using the Cognitive-Affective-Conative Model and ANCOVA method, this paper conducts experimental research to obtain data and studies the impact of machine-made news on the audience’s attitude towards COVID-19 news. The analysis used a 2 × 2 factorial online experimental method to test the impact of two variables: “theme” and “news format.” The research results indicate that the theme and news format significantly affect the audience’s attitude towards epidemic news, and machine-generated video news received a more positive response than news written by human journalists. Based on the results of this study, it can be concluded that machine-generated news has great potential to provide accessible and reliable information during major public health events such as COVID-19. This study has significant implications for the news industry, indicating the possibility of increasing the use of machine news production in the future.","PeriodicalId":42637,"journal":{"name":"Global Media and China","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141340086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-06-14DOI: 10.1177/20594364241263120
G. Negro
This article aims to provide a historical dimension of the Italian public opinion on Huawei, and vice versa of the Chinese perception of Huawei’s role in Italy. Through a qualitative content analysis, the author examines Italian newspapers framing on Huawei as well as Chinese newspapers framing on the Italian telecommunication market before and after and after the signature of China—Italy memorandum of understanding in 2019. The research provides a periodization of three stages that highlights the evolution of the Chinese company in Italy and examines to what extent its activities can fit within the paradigm of imperialist actions. Based on a historical perspective, this contribution examines the perception of China’s digital infrastructure outside the Chinese borders, while also focusing on policy imaginaries through the corporate nationality theory and analyzing the rhetoric of “nationality” applied to a specific organizational behavior in the aggregation of different communities.
{"title":"The history of Huawei in Italy through the lens of corporate nationality","authors":"G. Negro","doi":"10.1177/20594364241263120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20594364241263120","url":null,"abstract":"This article aims to provide a historical dimension of the Italian public opinion on Huawei, and vice versa of the Chinese perception of Huawei’s role in Italy. Through a qualitative content analysis, the author examines Italian newspapers framing on Huawei as well as Chinese newspapers framing on the Italian telecommunication market before and after and after the signature of China—Italy memorandum of understanding in 2019. The research provides a periodization of three stages that highlights the evolution of the Chinese company in Italy and examines to what extent its activities can fit within the paradigm of imperialist actions. Based on a historical perspective, this contribution examines the perception of China’s digital infrastructure outside the Chinese borders, while also focusing on policy imaginaries through the corporate nationality theory and analyzing the rhetoric of “nationality” applied to a specific organizational behavior in the aggregation of different communities.","PeriodicalId":42637,"journal":{"name":"Global Media and China","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141341677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-05-22DOI: 10.1177/20594364241254616
Wei Wang, Shengjun Jin
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Pub Date : 2024-05-16DOI: 10.1177/20594364241255758
Stuart Davis
This article serves as an introduction to the special issue “China and the Global South: Interrogating Imperialist Ambitions.” It begins the issue by laying out the major theoretical positions developed in recent years regarding so-called “Chinese imperialism” and highlights the framing effects of the US-propagated New Cold War with China on how nations in the Global South interact with both China and the US. Finally, it briefly introduces the five articles that make up the special issue.
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Pub Date : 2024-05-13DOI: 10.1177/20594364241247253
Yuan Liang
{"title":"Book Review: of Chinese film - Realism and Convention from the Silent Era to the Digital Age","authors":"Yuan Liang","doi":"10.1177/20594364241247253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20594364241247253","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42637,"journal":{"name":"Global Media and China","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140984698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-05-10DOI: 10.1177/20594364241254626
Mayara Araujo, Afonso de Albuquerque
For decades, the geopolitical domination of the United States remained almost unquestioned. However, other countries have emerged as poles of influence in recent years, including China and Brazil. Despite this, cultural and media interaction between the two countries is still limited and often mediated by the United States. This paper explores the algorithmic representation of China by the video streaming platform Netflix and argues that the company acts imperialistically by seeking to establish monopolistic control of the global Internet television market and promoting biases that we call ‘algorithmic orientalism’. By presenting China to the Brazilian public through this lens, Netflix plays the role of cultural gatekeeper that continues to promote hegemonically American worldviews.
{"title":"Algorithmic orientalism? Netflix’s representation of China in Brazil","authors":"Mayara Araujo, Afonso de Albuquerque","doi":"10.1177/20594364241254626","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20594364241254626","url":null,"abstract":"For decades, the geopolitical domination of the United States remained almost unquestioned. However, other countries have emerged as poles of influence in recent years, including China and Brazil. Despite this, cultural and media interaction between the two countries is still limited and often mediated by the United States. This paper explores the algorithmic representation of China by the video streaming platform Netflix and argues that the company acts imperialistically by seeking to establish monopolistic control of the global Internet television market and promoting biases that we call ‘algorithmic orientalism’. By presenting China to the Brazilian public through this lens, Netflix plays the role of cultural gatekeeper that continues to promote hegemonically American worldviews.","PeriodicalId":42637,"journal":{"name":"Global Media and China","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140990639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-04-24DOI: 10.1177/20594364241244478
Junyi Ji
{"title":"Book review: The Routledge Companion to media industries","authors":"Junyi Ji","doi":"10.1177/20594364241244478","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20594364241244478","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42637,"journal":{"name":"Global Media and China","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140662764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-04-23DOI: 10.1177/20594364241247671
Tracy Ying Zhang, Alison Harvey
This special issue features five articles written by a group of established and emerging researchers, who carefully examined the challenges and opportunities for women's participation in media production across platforms and nations. Overall, the case studies in this special issue extend and broaden current conversations about gendered media-making practices by emphasizing an intersectional, transnational, and critical feminist perspective on identity, subjectivity, embodiment, and labour. Further, these studies highlight both structural barriers that women face in the global media industries as well as emergent resistant and interventionist tactics. Taken together, they demonstrate the value of local, situated analyses and expose the shared patriarchal repressions as well as opportunities of development for feminist media production within a transnational context.
{"title":"Introduction: Feminist media production and beyond","authors":"Tracy Ying Zhang, Alison Harvey","doi":"10.1177/20594364241247671","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20594364241247671","url":null,"abstract":"This special issue features five articles written by a group of established and emerging researchers, who carefully examined the challenges and opportunities for women's participation in media production across platforms and nations. Overall, the case studies in this special issue extend and broaden current conversations about gendered media-making practices by emphasizing an intersectional, transnational, and critical feminist perspective on identity, subjectivity, embodiment, and labour. Further, these studies highlight both structural barriers that women face in the global media industries as well as emergent resistant and interventionist tactics. Taken together, they demonstrate the value of local, situated analyses and expose the shared patriarchal repressions as well as opportunities of development for feminist media production within a transnational context.","PeriodicalId":42637,"journal":{"name":"Global Media and China","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140666429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-04-17DOI: 10.1177/20594364241246902
Lei Xi
This paper argues that elemental media studies, which emphasize the entanglements between humans and non-humans, can offer new avenues for addressing the challenges faced by post-humanist heritage studies. Due to the importance of tourism for heritage revitalization, this paper examines the limitations of the local tourism industry’s understanding of the water element in the context of the tourism plan of the Sangyuanwei Polder Embankment System, particularly the neglect of the destructiveness of water. It also investigates human-water interactions in the history of SPES through elemental analysis, examining how water as a medium of life has inspired human affects, feelings, actions, as well as facilitated the transformation of and communication with water through the development of water-related engineering and social institutions. By focusing on the affective aspects of the elements, as well as revisiting the histories and local knowledge, elemental aesthetics derived from elemental analysis aims to reconnect humans to the elements as media of life, thus allowing for the initiation of dialogs with heritage management and tourism. The elemental aesthetics of water for the life of heritage sites aiming at flood control has often included the destructive characteristics of water, as well as the complex feelings of fear, awe, reverence, and dedication that it stirs. Based on this, this paper also points out a possible new orientation for the future development of water-related heritage sites.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-13DOI: 10.1177/20594364241247675
Christine H Tran
Precarious careers in the games industry have long relied on the unpaid and largely feminized support of spouses and family members. This paper addresses the role of spouses and other domestic cohabitants in the production of live game broadcasts on Twitch, Amazon’s world-leading platform in live video entertainment. I introduce the heuristic of the ‘Twitch Spouse’ to underscore the crucial role that domestic partners have played as invisible workers in the wider games industry, whose precarious conditions have been extended by the rise of at-home livestreaming. Drawing from ‘playful’ interviews and ethnographic observation with 12 Twitch creators located across the United States and Canada, I delineate three themes by which the partners of Twitch streamers vitally contribute to livestreaming: collaborative space production, the management of intimacy, and timekeeping. Herein, I show how a theorization of the ‘Twitch Spouse’ will build future pathways for recognizing the intertwined struggles of domestic and digital work within the precarious horizons of the game industry. This paper argues that Twitch streamers’ conceptualizations of intimate partners’ supportive labour reinforce domesticity and visibility as co-extended forces in the evolving relevance of digital labour to contemporary capitalism.
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