Pub Date : 2024-03-17DOI: 10.1177/20594364241240261
Renyi He, Xiaoyun Huang
The Olympic Games are often framed by the U.S. media as political events, with the media’s preference for democratic political systems, while global health crises are often framed in a similar way, demonstrating shared concerns about human interests. When the Olympics occur during a global health crisis, a tension emerges between the ideological framing of the Olympics and the shared concern for human interests in media coverage. By analyzing New York Times coverage of the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics and the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, this study aims to show how ideological preferences in Olympic coverage interact with shared concerns about health crises. Furthermore, the analysis of this interaction leads to a rethinking of traditional journalistic norms that view journalists as detached observers.
{"title":"Shared concerns versus ideological preferences: The New York Times’ coverage of two Olympics games held in the global health crisis","authors":"Renyi He, Xiaoyun Huang","doi":"10.1177/20594364241240261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20594364241240261","url":null,"abstract":"The Olympic Games are often framed by the U.S. media as political events, with the media’s preference for democratic political systems, while global health crises are often framed in a similar way, demonstrating shared concerns about human interests. When the Olympics occur during a global health crisis, a tension emerges between the ideological framing of the Olympics and the shared concern for human interests in media coverage. By analyzing New York Times coverage of the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics and the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, this study aims to show how ideological preferences in Olympic coverage interact with shared concerns about health crises. Furthermore, the analysis of this interaction leads to a rethinking of traditional journalistic norms that view journalists as detached observers.","PeriodicalId":42637,"journal":{"name":"Global Media and China","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140235093","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 : 2024-03-13DOI: 10.1177/20594364241238635
Leanne Chang, Timothy K. F. Fung, Ho-Man Leung, Po-yan. Lai
The literature has explored age differences in health information seeking during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, there is a noticeable gap in research regarding generational variations in the underlying factors of health information scanning and sharing, as well as generational differences in the interplay of health information seeking, scanning, and sharing. This study examined: (1) differences in risk- and channel-related motivators of online health information seeking, online health information scanning, and COVID-19 information sharing among three generational cohorts: Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials; and (2) generational differences in the relationship between information seeking, scanning, and sharing. The focus on generational differences took into consideration both biological and social differences in age cohorts when comparing their information behaviors. The data came from an online survey of 1,004 Hong Kong residents. Results showed generational similarities in individuals’ more frequent information scanning than seeking and the positive relationship between information seeking and sharing. Generational differences emerged in several aspects, including the frequency of information seeking and scanning; the relationship between health status and information seeking; associations of income, health status, channel characteristics, and channel utility with information scanning; and associations of information seeking and scanning with information sharing. These findings offer insights into how risk- and channel-related factors may differ among generations or transcend generational differences in shaping individuals’ information behaviors in the historical and cultural context of COVID-19 in Hong Kong. Results of our study inform communication strategies for different generational groups in future public health crises.
{"title":"Generational differences in health information behaviors during the COVID-19 crisis: A Hong Kong study","authors":"Leanne Chang, Timothy K. F. Fung, Ho-Man Leung, Po-yan. Lai","doi":"10.1177/20594364241238635","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20594364241238635","url":null,"abstract":"The literature has explored age differences in health information seeking during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, there is a noticeable gap in research regarding generational variations in the underlying factors of health information scanning and sharing, as well as generational differences in the interplay of health information seeking, scanning, and sharing. This study examined: (1) differences in risk- and channel-related motivators of online health information seeking, online health information scanning, and COVID-19 information sharing among three generational cohorts: Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials; and (2) generational differences in the relationship between information seeking, scanning, and sharing. The focus on generational differences took into consideration both biological and social differences in age cohorts when comparing their information behaviors. The data came from an online survey of 1,004 Hong Kong residents. Results showed generational similarities in individuals’ more frequent information scanning than seeking and the positive relationship between information seeking and sharing. Generational differences emerged in several aspects, including the frequency of information seeking and scanning; the relationship between health status and information seeking; associations of income, health status, channel characteristics, and channel utility with information scanning; and associations of information seeking and scanning with information sharing. These findings offer insights into how risk- and channel-related factors may differ among generations or transcend generational differences in shaping individuals’ information behaviors in the historical and cultural context of COVID-19 in Hong Kong. Results of our study inform communication strategies for different generational groups in future public health crises.","PeriodicalId":42637,"journal":{"name":"Global Media and China","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140245828","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 : 2024-03-06DOI: 10.1177/20594364241238065
Ruoxi Liu
Drawing from seven months of fieldwork among independent artists and their communities in Guangzhou, China, in 2020–2021, this paper investigates the feminist alternative practices in response to the experiences of gender marginalisation of independent artists. Along with being sexualised and discouraged by some of their art colleagues and the public, there has been an emergence of alternative practices among female independent artists in Guangzhou, including alternative art production, space cultivation, and community development. Alternative art practices have not only diversified the expression and representation of female artists; they have also helped female and non-binary people connect to discuss gender-related issues and provide mutual support. Altogether, these expanding feminist practices, spaces, and communities have yielded everyday life strategies to negotiate and contest existing patriarchal conventions and imbalanced power relationships. My account also offers a view of changing gender politics within art communities in Guangzhou’s independent art field.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-05DOI: 10.1177/20594364241236909
Weikun Fan
This paper sets out to study how creative documentary practices deconstruct traumatic memory, and then digitalise witnessing and engagement afforded by digital technology in the award-winning online interactive documentary The Space We Hold. Premised on culture memory studies and documentary studies, the social function of the documentary in reshaping narratives and forging public engagement has been discussed in this research. Interactive documentary becomes the unique visual artistic medium that allows the wider public to bear witness and emotionally experience the meaning of a traumatic past. This interactive project is reviewed as one site of memory to answer the main research question: ‘How does hypermediacy in an interactive documentary enable this non-linear storytelling structure to reframe the narrative and identity of a community that struggles for social justice?’. Along with presenting direct provocation through the innovative hypernarrative, this interactive documentary focuses on victims’ current lives, familial feelings and their contribution in pursuit of justice, showing depth in reflection and density in life. By exploring how The Space We Hold acts as a bear and agent to enhance audience engagement, I contend that the documentary is restyled as a space that allows individual memory to intertwine with collective memory through the combination of authorial expressivity and interactive participatory. In this pragmatic and reflexive approach to bear traumatic witness, we sense the constant battle between stigmatised communities and their reinterpreting narratives.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1177/20594364241236500
F. Atchulo, Liesbeth Nonkululeko Kanis
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Pub Date : 2024-02-19DOI: 10.1177/20594364241235421
L. Tsang, Xiaotian Li, T. Tse
To not only celebrate the launch of this double special issue, but also to shine a spotlight on the variety of China as Method epistemological approaches shared by the special issue’s editors and authors, the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Hong Kong Institute of Asia Pacific Studies, the University of Amsterdam’s Media Studies Department, and Global Media and China, co-organised a hybrid symposium to generate intellectual exchanges on such a de-westernising mode of knowledge production. While the research articles in this double special issue extensively examine ‘distinct’ characteristics of China, in this introduction, we reflect on if we are essentialising China. We do not want to apply a universalist logic that exists in theories by and from the Global North to be ‘experimented on’ in the Global South; yet, we also seek to move away from ‘China exceptionalism’ and express the stance that China can only be understood in its positionality to other areas (and modes of knowledge production) of the world. Thus, this special issue seeks to further deconstruct China as Method, challenge the existing power imbalance, and pluralise knowledge production.
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Pub Date : 2024-02-12DOI: 10.1177/20594364241230860
Xinyuan Zhou, T. W. Whyke, Aiqing Wang
This study assessed Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination knowledge, willingness, and status among University of Nottingham Ningbo undergraduate students, utilizing the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) and Health Belief Model (HBM). Self-administered questionnaires covered demographics, sexual behavior, and factors influencing vaccination intentions. Quantitative and qualitative analyses included t-tests, ANOVA, Pearson correlation, logistic regression, and linear regression. Of 373 surveyed students, the HPV vaccination rate was notably higher than in previous studies (45.84%). While participants demonstrated good HPV knowledge, male students were less aware. Intentions to vaccinate were high, influenced by gender, profession, parental education, family/friend cancer history, and health status. The study confirmed TPB and HBM’s efficacy in predicting vaccination intentions, enhancing media-related aspects and perceived barriers. Gender differences in HPV information exposure, media use, and representations were identified, offering insights for optimized health communication strategies.
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Pub Date : 2024-02-12DOI: 10.1177/20594364241230860
Xinyuan Zhou, T. W. Whyke, Aiqing Wang
This study assessed Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination knowledge, willingness, and status among University of Nottingham Ningbo undergraduate students, utilizing the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) and Health Belief Model (HBM). Self-administered questionnaires covered demographics, sexual behavior, and factors influencing vaccination intentions. Quantitative and qualitative analyses included t-tests, ANOVA, Pearson correlation, logistic regression, and linear regression. Of 373 surveyed students, the HPV vaccination rate was notably higher than in previous studies (45.84%). While participants demonstrated good HPV knowledge, male students were less aware. Intentions to vaccinate were high, influenced by gender, profession, parental education, family/friend cancer history, and health status. The study confirmed TPB and HBM’s efficacy in predicting vaccination intentions, enhancing media-related aspects and perceived barriers. Gender differences in HPV information exposure, media use, and representations were identified, offering insights for optimized health communication strategies.
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Pub Date : 2024-02-07DOI: 10.1177/20594364241232757
Dennis Nguyen, Bei Wang, Bruce Mutsvairo
This study explores how African news media frame China’s role in digital technology. China’s engagement in Africa is portrayed as an ambiguous trend by Western media, which point to risks of Chinese influence. Themes of exploitation and support for autocratic regimes are common in media narratives about Chinese-African collaborations. Yet claims that China pursues a neo-colonial project in Africa seem exaggerated. While Chinese geopolitical ambitions drive its foreign policy decisions, African actors often appear absent from these discussions. African perceptions and assessments of China are nuanced, indicating a complex relationship. They point to benefits and risks with China as an economic, political, and cultural partner. It is crucial to analyze local contexts where stakeholders “get to speak” about China and technology, offering interpretative frameworks and engaging with opposing perspectives. News media are vital sites where technology narratives are conceived and circulated. The present study analyses Nigerian and Ghanaian news media as examples. Both countries share a complex history of development collaboration with China. Using a news framing approach linked to sociotechnical imageries, the study focuses on how African media discourses give meaning to digital technology and assess it in relation to foreign partners, including geopolitical implications in the Global South.
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Pub Date : 2024-02-07DOI: 10.1177/20594364241232757
Dennis Nguyen, Bei Wang, Bruce Mutsvairo
This study explores how African news media frame China’s role in digital technology. China’s engagement in Africa is portrayed as an ambiguous trend by Western media, which point to risks of Chinese influence. Themes of exploitation and support for autocratic regimes are common in media narratives about Chinese-African collaborations. Yet claims that China pursues a neo-colonial project in Africa seem exaggerated. While Chinese geopolitical ambitions drive its foreign policy decisions, African actors often appear absent from these discussions. African perceptions and assessments of China are nuanced, indicating a complex relationship. They point to benefits and risks with China as an economic, political, and cultural partner. It is crucial to analyze local contexts where stakeholders “get to speak” about China and technology, offering interpretative frameworks and engaging with opposing perspectives. News media are vital sites where technology narratives are conceived and circulated. The present study analyses Nigerian and Ghanaian news media as examples. Both countries share a complex history of development collaboration with China. Using a news framing approach linked to sociotechnical imageries, the study focuses on how African media discourses give meaning to digital technology and assess it in relation to foreign partners, including geopolitical implications in the Global South.
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