Pub Date : 2022-04-14DOI: 10.1177/20594364221089987
L. Vermeeren
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Pub Date : 2022-03-08DOI: 10.1177/20594364221081327
Dani Fadillah, Luo Zhenglin, Bai Long
{"title":"Book Review: Introduction of Computational Communication by Zhang Lun, Wang Chengjun, and Xu Xiaoke","authors":"Dani Fadillah, Luo Zhenglin, Bai Long","doi":"10.1177/20594364221081327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20594364221081327","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42637,"journal":{"name":"Global Media and China","volume":"59 1","pages":"244 - 247"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77805182","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 : 2022-02-21DOI: 10.1177/20594364221081555
Lars Willnat, Zixue Tai
The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected the lives of people around the globe. As of February 2022, the coronavirus has spread to 193 countries and regions worldwide, with about 378 million known infections and over 5.6 million deaths attributable to the disease (Johns Hopkins University, 2022). While the virus’s impact on health has been devastating, the pandemic impacted nearly every aspect of public life, including nationwide “lockdowns,” dramatic declines in economic output, rampant unemployment, political disputes about masking, and thousands of news stories about the origin and consequences of the pandemic. While there are indications that the number of new infections has finally passed its peak, the social, cultural, and political consequences of the pandemic will be long-lasting. One noticeable effect of the pandemic on public life has been the growing conflict over masking and vaccination mandates in the United States and Europe. Driven by deep political divisions among politicians and citizens alike, refusals to comply with these mandates have undoubtedly increased the number of deaths attributed to the coronavirus disease. There is also little doubt that former President Trump’s frequent use of the derogatory term “Chinese virus” in his speeches, tweets, and press conferences negatively influenced public perceptions of Asians living in the United States. Trump’s efforts to blame China for the worldwide spread of coronavirus likely encouraged some Americans to not only blame Asians for the pandemic but also physically attack them. Between March 19, 2020 and September 30, 2021, Stop AAPI Hate, a research organization
{"title":"Introduction to Global Media and China’s Special Issue on COVID-19","authors":"Lars Willnat, Zixue Tai","doi":"10.1177/20594364221081555","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20594364221081555","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected the lives of people around the globe. As of February 2022, the coronavirus has spread to 193 countries and regions worldwide, with about 378 million known infections and over 5.6 million deaths attributable to the disease (Johns Hopkins University, 2022). While the virus’s impact on health has been devastating, the pandemic impacted nearly every aspect of public life, including nationwide “lockdowns,” dramatic declines in economic output, rampant unemployment, political disputes about masking, and thousands of news stories about the origin and consequences of the pandemic. While there are indications that the number of new infections has finally passed its peak, the social, cultural, and political consequences of the pandemic will be long-lasting. One noticeable effect of the pandemic on public life has been the growing conflict over masking and vaccination mandates in the United States and Europe. Driven by deep political divisions among politicians and citizens alike, refusals to comply with these mandates have undoubtedly increased the number of deaths attributed to the coronavirus disease. There is also little doubt that former President Trump’s frequent use of the derogatory term “Chinese virus” in his speeches, tweets, and press conferences negatively influenced public perceptions of Asians living in the United States. Trump’s efforts to blame China for the worldwide spread of coronavirus likely encouraged some Americans to not only blame Asians for the pandemic but also physically attack them. Between March 19, 2020 and September 30, 2021, Stop AAPI Hate, a research organization","PeriodicalId":42637,"journal":{"name":"Global Media and China","volume":"12 1","pages":"78 - 80"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82012186","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 : 2022-02-13DOI: 10.1177/20594364221078626
Dennis Nguyen, Erik Hekman
This study explores the news framing of A.I., China, and the U.S.A. in two mainstream news outlets: The Washington Post and The South China Morning Post. The main objective is to analyse how both, as parts of different discourse cultures, portray the competition for leadership in A.I. innovation between China and the U.S.A. The study takes a critical look at the media discourse on the ‘new arms race’ and what role the news play in localising global technology trends. The empirical part makes use of a combination of manual and automated content analyses. To this end, a dictionary approach that utilises Names Entity Recognition was applied to a large volume of news texts (N = 3.055) to identify recurring news frames. The findings show similarities in the perception of A.I.’s potentials and versatility but also clear cultural differences in how risks and conflicts are portrayed in both outlets. Although the Washington Post appears more critical about A.I., the South China Morning Post frames the technology as a driver of economic growth and global influence. The discussion offers a starting point for theorising the relationship between mediatisation, tech trends, cultural differences, and international politics.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-11DOI: 10.1177/20594364221074422
L. Chen
From a historical perspective, this paper examines how these Asian game companies developed during the period 2000–2010. This research attempts to discern the relationships among the East Asian game companies when they become both game buyers and providers. Based on the model of the global value chain, suggested by Gereffi and others (2005), the results show that, first, the popularity of online games in the intra-Asian market is based on a collaborative relationship, while Korean and Chinese produced games are successfully operated in other markets. Second, the online game business became segmented in East Asia when game companies, in different markets, with their own advantages, were able to play different roles in order to add value to the modular form of the global value chain. Third, the value chains are not evolving along a single trajectory, if economic interdependence among game suppliers and buyers are further examined.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-04DOI: 10.1177/20594364211073859
Yuwen Gu
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Pub Date : 2022-01-10DOI: 10.1177/20594364211073860
A. White
Angeles Times. Asian Journal of Communication, 14(1), 53–67. https://doi.org/10.1080/ 0129298042000195170 Sparks, C. (2010). Coverage of China in the UK national press. Chinese Journal of Communication, 3(3), 347–365. https://doi.org/10.1080/17544750.2010.499637 Sun, Y. (2009).Decoding China’s image: A comparison of the reporting on China in the New York times and the times, 1993–2002. Beijing, China: World Affairs Press. Yan, W. (1998). A structural analysis of the changing image of China in the New York Times from 1949 through 1988. Quality & Quantity, 32(1), 47–62. https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1004245831853
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Pub Date : 2022-01-10DOI: 10.1177/20594364211073862
C. Morgner
Since its emergence in London and New York in the late 1970s, punk music has subsequently become a global phenomenon (see Dines, Gordon, Guerra, & Bestley, 2019), spreading across the world to regions as diverse as Mexico (O’Connor, 2003), South Africa (Basson, 2007) and Indonesia (Prasetyo, 2017). In the early 1990s, punk music reached China. This book by Jian Xiao (with some co-authored sub-chapters by JimDonaghey and Paula Guerra) situates this arrival within a global context, tracing the history of punk, its meanings, norms and identity, and referencing handouts and performances that capture the punk scene. The influence of punk music is generally understood in terms of how it challenged established meanings and narratives, including capitalism and globalisation. However, most of the narratives in question related to Western contexts, and the authors note a “general lack of discussion about punk phenomena in Asian contexts” (p. 1). This opens new avenues of interpretation that are likely to be of interest to cultural sociologists who explore meaning-making and those with an interest in post-colonialism. The book’s nine chapters are organised as two main sections. The first (and longer) section investigates punk in China while the second compares the punk scenes in Indonesia and Portugal. All of the case studies emphasise the need to look beyond established narratives to understand these marginal punk scenes. As the opening chapter explains, a sub-cultural approach is inadequate in the Chinese context, where punk music is characterised by a plurality of styles and sub-genres, and its devotees come from diverse classes and professional backgrounds. To develop this pluralistic notion of punk, the authors ground their theoretical approach in Howard Becker’s notion of art worlds and Pierre Bourdieu’s cultural fields. To more fully develop their interpretation, one might have welcomed a slightly riskier approach referencing authors who look beyond established Western narratives—for instance, Homi K. Bhabha’s idea of hybridity or Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s Other—but these are surprisingly absent. Nevertheless, in acknowledging the role of the “myriad of complementary activities” (p. 8) in the production of cultural objects, the discussion of art worlds and cultural fields is somewhat adapted for the Chinese context.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-05DOI: 10.1177/20594364211060874
Janet Hui Xue
Social media platforms (SMPs) generate revenue from the automatic propertisation of data contributed by users (i.e. they process these data algorithmically to feed products and services they sell to other customers, especially advertisers). This comparative study of the UK and China builds on key law and policy documents as well as in-depth interviews with 25 experts. We find that neither the human rights–based regulatory approach in the UK nor the impact-based approach of China provides users with economically meaningful forms of redress for harm suffered due to insufficient protection of their rights as data subjects. The study reveals the reasons for this: (1) by analysing data subjects’ rights in data protection law and establishing whether these rights preserve the economic interests of data subjects pertaining to their data; (2) by spelling out the conditions under which users can exercise their rights and (3) through an in-depth analysis of the existing mechanisms, which are not suitable to protect data subjects’ economic interests during automatic propertisation. This also helps us to understand the social impacts of China’s recently approved Personal Information Protection Law. Finally, it suggests two possible ways to improve the balance between the economic interests of data controllers and data subjects.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-30DOI: 10.1177/20594364211067872
J. Hartley
Chinese policy has turned to the globalisation of communication and stories. Beyond the diplomatic ‘voice’, one of the ways that Chinese culture is reaching out to the rest of the world is through science fiction. Sci-fi can be construed as a specialist thinking-circuit for cultures to build and explore experimental models of collective action at global and planetary scale. What do its stories tell us about the globalisation of Chinese culture? When the need to ‘save the world’ has crossed over from sci-fi to science, from entertainment to activism, and from a thought experiment to imminent danger, humans as a whole face challenges of their own making: climate change, environmental pollution, pandemics, extinctions, exclusions and nuclear annihilation. Can sci-fi inspire collective action at species scale? What role will globalising China play?
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