Pub Date : 2022-06-11DOI: 10.1080/17544750.2022.2083202
Kecheng Fang, Calvin Yixiang Cheng
abstract This article uses the theory of affective news to examine social media live streaming during the 2019 Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement. We argue that this specific form of affective news was enabled by the affordances of the Facebook Live platform, collectively produced by journalists who were not bound by conventional detached practices and audiences who actively engaged in emotional reactions and discussions, and offering an immersive, unpredictable, sensational, and dramatic experience of collective witnessing through the unique content and format. This case enriches our understanding of the emotional turn of journalism and provides implications for digital journalism and social movements.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-06DOI: 10.1080/17544750.2022.2081988
Cheryl S. Y. Shea, Francis L. F. Lee
abstract One important aspect of the 2019 Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement was its efforts to appeal to the international community for support. While political activists lobbied foreign governments, and overseas Hong Konger associations held rallies and other activities, many ordinary Hong Kong citizens intentionally participated in the “international front” through social-media-based public diplomacy. This article examines pro-movement public diplomacy via Twitter, identifying its common narratives and main targets. It also highlights the tension between bottom-up public diplomacy by ordinary citizens and elite-led lobbying work. Thus, the article demonstrates both the opportunities and challenges that social media have introduced to a networked social movement.
{"title":"Public diplomacy via Twitter: opportunities and tensions","authors":"Cheryl S. Y. Shea, Francis L. F. Lee","doi":"10.1080/17544750.2022.2081988","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17544750.2022.2081988","url":null,"abstract":"abstract One important aspect of the 2019 Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement was its efforts to appeal to the international community for support. While political activists lobbied foreign governments, and overseas Hong Konger associations held rallies and other activities, many ordinary Hong Kong citizens intentionally participated in the “international front” through social-media-based public diplomacy. This article examines pro-movement public diplomacy via Twitter, identifying its common narratives and main targets. It also highlights the tension between bottom-up public diplomacy by ordinary citizens and elite-led lobbying work. Thus, the article demonstrates both the opportunities and challenges that social media have introduced to a networked social movement.","PeriodicalId":46367,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Journal of Communication","volume":"27 1","pages":"449 - 462"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81966346","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 : 2022-05-16DOI: 10.1080/17544750.2022.2075904
Zheng Yang
Abstract The discourse authority of science and scientists has recently faced many challenges. This study analyzes the discourse techniques used by Chinese scientists to maintain their discourse authority in the online discussion of genetically modified organisms on Zhihu, China’s biggest knowledge-sharing network. Based on the concept of “boundary work” as a theoretical framework, we find that scientists maintain their discourse authority by using “I/we” to distinguish themselves as qualified science communicators and “you” to refer to audiences, thus building boundaries between Chinese scientists and the public. The findings also indicate that such discourse “boundary work” is a common practice among scientists who communicate their views about genetically modified organisms on Zhihu.
{"title":"How do Chinese scientists maintain their discourse authority? Critical discourse analysis of discourse “boundary work” in genetically modified organisms discussion on a Chinese knowledge-sharing network","authors":"Zheng Yang","doi":"10.1080/17544750.2022.2075904","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17544750.2022.2075904","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The discourse authority of science and scientists has recently faced many challenges. This study analyzes the discourse techniques used by Chinese scientists to maintain their discourse authority in the online discussion of genetically modified organisms on Zhihu, China’s biggest knowledge-sharing network. Based on the concept of “boundary work” as a theoretical framework, we find that scientists maintain their discourse authority by using “I/we” to distinguish themselves as qualified science communicators and “you” to refer to audiences, thus building boundaries between Chinese scientists and the public. The findings also indicate that such discourse “boundary work” is a common practice among scientists who communicate their views about genetically modified organisms on Zhihu.","PeriodicalId":46367,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Journal of Communication","volume":"59 1","pages":"90 - 107"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74386219","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 : 2022-04-21DOI: 10.1080/17544750.2022.2052130
Kun Peng, Wan-Ying Lin, Hexin Chen
Abstract This study seeks to increase knowledge regarding the consequences of deceptive self-presentation in the context of online dating. Specifically, this study investigates how online daters may react to different levels of misrepresentation in online dating and the role gender may play in the above situation. A two (degree of deception) by two (self-presenting content) by two (gender) between-subjects factorial experimental design was adopted to empirically test the cognitive, affective, and behavioral outcomes of self-presentation in online dating profiles. The results indicate that online daters showed stronger changes in emotions and action willingness when they discovered others engaging in higher degrees of deception. Women and men reacted differently when confronting misrepresentation.
{"title":"Consequences of deceptive self-presentation in online dating","authors":"Kun Peng, Wan-Ying Lin, Hexin Chen","doi":"10.1080/17544750.2022.2052130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17544750.2022.2052130","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study seeks to increase knowledge regarding the consequences of deceptive self-presentation in the context of online dating. Specifically, this study investigates how online daters may react to different levels of misrepresentation in online dating and the role gender may play in the above situation. A two (degree of deception) by two (self-presenting content) by two (gender) between-subjects factorial experimental design was adopted to empirically test the cognitive, affective, and behavioral outcomes of self-presentation in online dating profiles. The results indicate that online daters showed stronger changes in emotions and action willingness when they discovered others engaging in higher degrees of deception. Women and men reacted differently when confronting misrepresentation.","PeriodicalId":46367,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Journal of Communication","volume":"122 1","pages":"582 - 610"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80411571","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 : 2022-04-11DOI: 10.1080/17544750.2022.2053177
Yi Yang
Abstract This study explored how COVID-19 survivors construct their digital memories of the pandemic by analyzing 110 online memory narratives of COVID-19 survivors on Zhihu, China’s most popular question-and-answer platform. Social media grounded theory was used to identify themes and interpret the results. Four recurring themes emerged from the data: life during treatment, life after treatment, the role of bio/informational technologies, and the motivation for remembrance. The results show how COVID-19 survivors activated the affordances of Zhihu to record the life stories neglected in the state-led memory-making process and transformed them into prospective memories aimed at justice for such survivors. This study contributes to our understanding of how the politics of memory and the politics of platform entangle with each other in the Chinese context.
{"title":"Pandemic and memory: Online memory narratives of COVID-19 survivors in China","authors":"Yi Yang","doi":"10.1080/17544750.2022.2053177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17544750.2022.2053177","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study explored how COVID-19 survivors construct their digital memories of the pandemic by analyzing 110 online memory narratives of COVID-19 survivors on Zhihu, China’s most popular question-and-answer platform. Social media grounded theory was used to identify themes and interpret the results. Four recurring themes emerged from the data: life during treatment, life after treatment, the role of bio/informational technologies, and the motivation for remembrance. The results show how COVID-19 survivors activated the affordances of Zhihu to record the life stories neglected in the state-led memory-making process and transformed them into prospective memories aimed at justice for such survivors. This study contributes to our understanding of how the politics of memory and the politics of platform entangle with each other in the Chinese context.","PeriodicalId":46367,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Journal of Communication","volume":"8 1","pages":"611 - 634"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74086706","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 : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/17544750.2022.2052132
Francis L. F. Lee
Abstract The COVID-19 outbreak has presented huge challenges to governments around the world, but it can also be an opportunity for governments to strengthen their performance legitimacy if the pandemic can be controlled. However, the relationship between pandemic control and the public evaluation of government performance might not be straightforward. This essay puts forward a conceptual framework for understanding how a government might or might not benefit from an improvement in a pandemic situation. It distinguishes between retrospective performance evaluation and attitudes toward ongoing preventive measures and highlights the role of responsibility attribution and risk assessment alignment in shaping public opinion. Guided by the framework, this essay discusses the experience of Hong Kong in 2021, where public evaluations of the government remained largely negative despite the lack of serious outbreaks throughout the year.
{"title":"Pandemic control and public evaluation of government performance in Hong Kong","authors":"Francis L. F. Lee","doi":"10.1080/17544750.2022.2052132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17544750.2022.2052132","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The COVID-19 outbreak has presented huge challenges to governments around the world, but it can also be an opportunity for governments to strengthen their performance legitimacy if the pandemic can be controlled. However, the relationship between pandemic control and the public evaluation of government performance might not be straightforward. This essay puts forward a conceptual framework for understanding how a government might or might not benefit from an improvement in a pandemic situation. It distinguishes between retrospective performance evaluation and attitudes toward ongoing preventive measures and highlights the role of responsibility attribution and risk assessment alignment in shaping public opinion. Guided by the framework, this essay discusses the experience of Hong Kong in 2021, where public evaluations of the government remained largely negative despite the lack of serious outbreaks throughout the year.","PeriodicalId":46367,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Journal of Communication","volume":"54 1","pages":"284 - 302"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90450263","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 : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/17544750.2022.2058573
G. Zhang
Abstract Critical logistics studies find that government legitimacy has faltered due to contemporary supply chain capitalism and its logistical mediation. They also find that the ongoing pandemic has extended the government’s logistical power. This paper attempts to analyze the Macao government’s application of logistical media, the device used for the coordination of people, goods, and information during the pandemic. Three types of performance will be discussed: 1. the urban infrastructure functioned to disseminate information and mobilize people, such as the typhoon alert system; 2. location-based functions of smart cards, which have failed to track data for epidemiological surveys; and 3. the interoperability of management systems between different local governments that needed to be fixed. All of these factors complicatedly affect the legitimacy of the government rather than merely enhancing or contesting it in an either/or approach.
{"title":"Functioning, failing, and fixing: logistical media and legitimacy in Macao during the pandemic","authors":"G. Zhang","doi":"10.1080/17544750.2022.2058573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17544750.2022.2058573","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Critical logistics studies find that government legitimacy has faltered due to contemporary supply chain capitalism and its logistical mediation. They also find that the ongoing pandemic has extended the government’s logistical power. This paper attempts to analyze the Macao government’s application of logistical media, the device used for the coordination of people, goods, and information during the pandemic. Three types of performance will be discussed: 1. the urban infrastructure functioned to disseminate information and mobilize people, such as the typhoon alert system; 2. location-based functions of smart cards, which have failed to track data for epidemiological surveys; and 3. the interoperability of management systems between different local governments that needed to be fixed. All of these factors complicatedly affect the legitimacy of the government rather than merely enhancing or contesting it in an either/or approach.","PeriodicalId":46367,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Journal of Communication","volume":"15 1","pages":"303 - 316"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90530288","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 : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/17544750.2022.2054514
Jingrong Tong
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the world to uncharted waters. Governments urgently need to figure out how to best handle the global health crisis and its impact on people’s lives. As well as struggling to contain and manage the pandemic, they also face challenges in maintaining their legitimacy. The eight contributions in this special issue provide a much-needed snapshot of whether and if so, to what extent and how government legitimacy was constructed and contested through the media in Chinese contexts, including mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau, during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic between 2020 and 2021. This article discusses government legitimacy and the role of the media to provide a conceptual and contextual framework for this special issue. It will start with a discussion about the relationship between government legitimacy, crisis and the media before addressing the impact of the COVID19 pandemic on government legitimacy and the existing literature on this topic. This article will then explain the importance of focusing on Chinese contexts, followed by introducing each of the eight contributions.
{"title":"Confronting COVID-19: constructing and contesting legitimacy through the media in Chinese contexts","authors":"Jingrong Tong","doi":"10.1080/17544750.2022.2054514","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17544750.2022.2054514","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the world to uncharted waters. Governments urgently need to figure out how to best handle the global health crisis and its impact on people’s lives. As well as struggling to contain and manage the pandemic, they also face challenges in maintaining their legitimacy. The eight contributions in this special issue provide a much-needed snapshot of whether and if so, to what extent and how government legitimacy was constructed and contested through the media in Chinese contexts, including mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau, during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic between 2020 and 2021. This article discusses government legitimacy and the role of the media to provide a conceptual and contextual framework for this special issue. It will start with a discussion about the relationship between government legitimacy, crisis and the media before addressing the impact of the COVID19 pandemic on government legitimacy and the existing literature on this topic. This article will then explain the importance of focusing on Chinese contexts, followed by introducing each of the eight contributions.","PeriodicalId":46367,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Journal of Communication","volume":"71 1","pages":"145 - 155"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83348068","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 : 2022-03-28DOI: 10.1080/17544750.2022.2054517
Hong Shen
{"title":"The web of meaning: the Internet in a changing Chinese society","authors":"Hong Shen","doi":"10.1080/17544750.2022.2054517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17544750.2022.2054517","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46367,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Journal of Communication","volume":"40 1","pages":"317 - 319"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77959268","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 : 2022-03-21DOI: 10.1080/17544750.2022.2054519
Mengmeng Liu
{"title":"The politics of dating apps: gender, sexuality, and emergent publics in urban China","authors":"Mengmeng Liu","doi":"10.1080/17544750.2022.2054519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17544750.2022.2054519","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46367,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Journal of Communication","volume":"69 1","pages":"319 - 322"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85534753","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}
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