Pub Date : 2023-10-25DOI: 10.1080/01292986.2023.2271953
Yuxin Xia
ABSTRACTAs the patriotism interweaves with emotional attachment produced by cross-cultural communications, K-pop fans influenced by network nationalism will fall into the predicament of role conflict and adopt multiple coping strategies, hence providing new ideas for revealing the results of overlapped fields of politics and entertainment. Analysis of fans’ behaviors in a series of nationalistic events establishes that these fans attempting to form an emotional community across the border are caught in a dilemma of identity choice with various role expectations. The consequences of the choice are related to some factors such as patriotic cognition, fans’ immersion, fans’ expectations, patriots’ expectations, and risk perception, leading to four attitude tendencies including spontaneous patriotism, compromise patriotism, gentle star-worship, and resistance star-worship. This study argues that precautions should be taken against the tendency that network nationalism transforms into narrow nationalism and that we need to understand the political potential of fandom as a cultural community.KEYWORDS: Network nationalismrole conflictK-pop fansemotional experiencetransnational cultural consumption AcknowledgementsThe author would like to extend her gratitude to the Editors and anonymous Reviewers for their enlightening comments and suggestions on this article. She also thanks Dr Yichi Zhang from Tsinghua University for fruitful discussion and help with paper writing.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsYuxin XiaYuxin Xia received her PhD degree from the College of Media and International Culture of Zhejiang University (China) in 2023. Her research interests include cross-cultural communication, media sociology and political communication.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-18DOI: 10.1080/01292986.2023.2269423
Jiaojiao Ji, Ting Hu, Zihang Chen, Mengxiao Zhu
ABSTRACTWhile climate change discourse on Western platforms like Twitter often reveals signs of polarization and misinformation, discussions on Chinese social media remain less explored. Building on the theoretical framework of the green public sphere, this study aims to explore the features of the content (topics and veracity), the characteristics of engaged users (regular users and social bots), and the communication strategies adopted by engaged users in climate change discussions on Chinese social media. We employed machine learning methods to analyze 452,167 climate change-related posts generated by 311,214 users from 2010 to 2020 on Weibo, finding that climate change discourse concentrated on environmental and health impacts and action advocacy, and misinformation was not prevalent. Regarding the composition of engaged users, only a small proportion were social bots which concentrated on action advocacy and politics and governance, rather than skeptical and denialist discourses. In terms of communication strategies, we found that social bots on Weibo were more likely to forward a post or mention another user than regular users. This study expands our understanding of climate change discourse and the green public sphere on social media and provides insights into leveraging social bots in climate change communication in an AI-powered society.KEYWORDS: Climate changepublic discoursetopicsmisinformationsocial botssocial mediagreen public sphere Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by National Key Research and Development Program of China [Grant Number 2021YFF0901601].Notes on contributorsJiaojiao JiJiaojiao Ji (Ph.D., University of Science and Technology of China) is currently a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Communication of Science and Technology at the University of Science and Technology of China. She was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Davis (2016–2017) and a visiting scholar at Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California (2018–2019). Her interests lie in public opinion on social media, misinformation detection and correction, and computational methods.Ting HuTing Hu is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Communication of Science and Technology at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). Her current research interests include science communication and health communication on social media, computational methods in communication. Her research has been accepted by the 17th Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST2023) conference.Zihang ChenZihang Chen is a master student majoring in Software Engineering in the Institute of Advanced Technology at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in Hefei, China. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Technology from Jimei University in Xiamen, China, i
{"title":"Exploring the climate change discourse on Chinese social media and the role of social bots","authors":"Jiaojiao Ji, Ting Hu, Zihang Chen, Mengxiao Zhu","doi":"10.1080/01292986.2023.2269423","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01292986.2023.2269423","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTWhile climate change discourse on Western platforms like Twitter often reveals signs of polarization and misinformation, discussions on Chinese social media remain less explored. Building on the theoretical framework of the green public sphere, this study aims to explore the features of the content (topics and veracity), the characteristics of engaged users (regular users and social bots), and the communication strategies adopted by engaged users in climate change discussions on Chinese social media. We employed machine learning methods to analyze 452,167 climate change-related posts generated by 311,214 users from 2010 to 2020 on Weibo, finding that climate change discourse concentrated on environmental and health impacts and action advocacy, and misinformation was not prevalent. Regarding the composition of engaged users, only a small proportion were social bots which concentrated on action advocacy and politics and governance, rather than skeptical and denialist discourses. In terms of communication strategies, we found that social bots on Weibo were more likely to forward a post or mention another user than regular users. This study expands our understanding of climate change discourse and the green public sphere on social media and provides insights into leveraging social bots in climate change communication in an AI-powered society.KEYWORDS: Climate changepublic discoursetopicsmisinformationsocial botssocial mediagreen public sphere Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by National Key Research and Development Program of China [Grant Number 2021YFF0901601].Notes on contributorsJiaojiao JiJiaojiao Ji (Ph.D., University of Science and Technology of China) is currently a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Communication of Science and Technology at the University of Science and Technology of China. She was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Davis (2016–2017) and a visiting scholar at Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California (2018–2019). Her interests lie in public opinion on social media, misinformation detection and correction, and computational methods.Ting HuTing Hu is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Communication of Science and Technology at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). Her current research interests include science communication and health communication on social media, computational methods in communication. Her research has been accepted by the 17th Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST2023) conference.Zihang ChenZihang Chen is a master student majoring in Software Engineering in the Institute of Advanced Technology at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in Hefei, China. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Technology from Jimei University in Xiamen, China, i","PeriodicalId":46924,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Communication","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135884013","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 : 2023-10-06DOI: 10.1080/01292986.2023.2265401
Jarim Kim
ABSTRACTGuided by the persuasion knowledge model, this study investigated how the fit between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and a sin company that makes negative societal contributions influences consumers’ responses. Specifically, using a sample of 234 Koreans, it examined whether individual differences in need for cognition (NFC) moderate CSR-company fit and how such NFC-moderated fit affects consumers’ responses through two distinct perceived motives (i.e. public-serving motive, self-serving motive). The analysis showed that NFC moderated the fit’s influence on perceived public-serving motives, perceived self-serving motives, and attitudes toward CSR. It also indicated that the NFC-moderated fit indirectly impacted attitudes toward CSR and positive word-of-mouth intentions via perceived public-serving motives.KEYWORDS: CSRfitNFCperceived public-serving motiveperceived self-serving motivetobacco Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by Yonsei University Research Fund of 2021 [grant number #2021-22-0312]; National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIT) [grant number No.2021R1G1A1012083].Notes on contributorsJarim KimJarim Kim is an associate professor in the department of communication at Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea. She received her M.A. from Purdue University and her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research interests include public relations, strategic communication, persuasion, and health and risk communication.
{"title":"CSR-company fit in the sin industry: addressing negative contributions, NFC, and perceived motives","authors":"Jarim Kim","doi":"10.1080/01292986.2023.2265401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01292986.2023.2265401","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTGuided by the persuasion knowledge model, this study investigated how the fit between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and a sin company that makes negative societal contributions influences consumers’ responses. Specifically, using a sample of 234 Koreans, it examined whether individual differences in need for cognition (NFC) moderate CSR-company fit and how such NFC-moderated fit affects consumers’ responses through two distinct perceived motives (i.e. public-serving motive, self-serving motive). The analysis showed that NFC moderated the fit’s influence on perceived public-serving motives, perceived self-serving motives, and attitudes toward CSR. It also indicated that the NFC-moderated fit indirectly impacted attitudes toward CSR and positive word-of-mouth intentions via perceived public-serving motives.KEYWORDS: CSRfitNFCperceived public-serving motiveperceived self-serving motivetobacco Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by Yonsei University Research Fund of 2021 [grant number #2021-22-0312]; National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIT) [grant number No.2021R1G1A1012083].Notes on contributorsJarim KimJarim Kim is an associate professor in the department of communication at Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea. She received her M.A. from Purdue University and her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research interests include public relations, strategic communication, persuasion, and health and risk communication.","PeriodicalId":46924,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Communication","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135350787","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 : 2023-09-25DOI: 10.1080/01292986.2023.2261110
Yoonji Ryu, Kihan Kim, Yeayoung Noh
ABSTRACT The South Korean government has implemented a public campaign promoting sports participation for health since 2005. However, research on the communication strategies of this campaign is limited. This study examined message strategies to promote sports participation for health through two experiments. A convenient sample comprising individuals aged 18–55 years was recruited from a large public university in South Korea. The results of experiment 1 support the basic tenet of goal-framing effects that gain-framed messages are more effective than loss-framed messages in promoting sports participation, which is a typical preventive health behavior. In experiment 2, gain-framed messages for sports participation were further classified into two types: easy but small-gain (ESG) messages and difficult but large-gain (DLG) messages. Experiment 2 examined whether the persuasive impact of the two types of gain-framed messages varies according to individuals’ past sports experience levels (i.e. active vs. occasional sports participants). As predicted, ESG was more persuasive than DLG for occasional sports participants. However, the persuasive effects of ESG and DLG did not significantly differ among active sports participants. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
{"title":"Communication strategies for promoting sports participation for health: an examination of goal-framing effects in South Korea","authors":"Yoonji Ryu, Kihan Kim, Yeayoung Noh","doi":"10.1080/01292986.2023.2261110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01292986.2023.2261110","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The South Korean government has implemented a public campaign promoting sports participation for health since 2005. However, research on the communication strategies of this campaign is limited. This study examined message strategies to promote sports participation for health through two experiments. A convenient sample comprising individuals aged 18–55 years was recruited from a large public university in South Korea. The results of experiment 1 support the basic tenet of goal-framing effects that gain-framed messages are more effective than loss-framed messages in promoting sports participation, which is a typical preventive health behavior. In experiment 2, gain-framed messages for sports participation were further classified into two types: easy but small-gain (ESG) messages and difficult but large-gain (DLG) messages. Experiment 2 examined whether the persuasive impact of the two types of gain-framed messages varies according to individuals’ past sports experience levels (i.e. active vs. occasional sports participants). As predicted, ESG was more persuasive than DLG for occasional sports participants. However, the persuasive effects of ESG and DLG did not significantly differ among active sports participants. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.","PeriodicalId":46924,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Communication","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135817749","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 : 2023-09-25DOI: 10.1080/01292986.2023.2260391
Asep Achmad Hidayat, Catur Nugroho, Soni Sadono, M. Nastain
{"title":"Deradicalization communication model through preaching in the province of Yala South Thailand","authors":"Asep Achmad Hidayat, Catur Nugroho, Soni Sadono, M. Nastain","doi":"10.1080/01292986.2023.2260391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01292986.2023.2260391","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46924,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Communication","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135816685","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 : 2023-09-21DOI: 10.1080/01292986.2023.2261114
Da Wang, Yuxiang Hong
ABSTRACTSocial media provides individuals with tremendous opportunities to follow nearly unlimited influencers online, prompting scholars’ concern about confirmation bias and the need to address it. Based on data from 894 participants, this study explores the positive effect of perceived influence on confirmation bias in social media contexts and the negative moderating effect of civic online reasoning on this relationship. These findings indicate that efforts in public media literacy education for citizens must be enhanced to transform subconscious defense mechanisms into mature coping skills through critical thinking.KEYWORDS: Confirmation biasperceived influence of influencerscivic online reasoningdefense mechanismssocial media Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by National Social Science Foundation of China [grant number CIA200273], and Zhejiang Province Social Science Planning Project.Notes on contributorsDa WangDa Wang is a postdoc fellow in the School of Journalism and Communication at Renmin University of China. His research interests include media literacy, international communication and cultural studies.Yuxiang HongYuxiang Hong is an Associate Professor in the School of Management at Hangzhou Dianzi University. His research interests include cyberpsychology, risk communication, and behavioral information security.
{"title":"Impact of perceived influence on confirmation bias in social media messages: the moderating effect of civic online reasoning","authors":"Da Wang, Yuxiang Hong","doi":"10.1080/01292986.2023.2261114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01292986.2023.2261114","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTSocial media provides individuals with tremendous opportunities to follow nearly unlimited influencers online, prompting scholars’ concern about confirmation bias and the need to address it. Based on data from 894 participants, this study explores the positive effect of perceived influence on confirmation bias in social media contexts and the negative moderating effect of civic online reasoning on this relationship. These findings indicate that efforts in public media literacy education for citizens must be enhanced to transform subconscious defense mechanisms into mature coping skills through critical thinking.KEYWORDS: Confirmation biasperceived influence of influencerscivic online reasoningdefense mechanismssocial media Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by National Social Science Foundation of China [grant number CIA200273], and Zhejiang Province Social Science Planning Project.Notes on contributorsDa WangDa Wang is a postdoc fellow in the School of Journalism and Communication at Renmin University of China. His research interests include media literacy, international communication and cultural studies.Yuxiang HongYuxiang Hong is an Associate Professor in the School of Management at Hangzhou Dianzi University. His research interests include cyberpsychology, risk communication, and behavioral information security.","PeriodicalId":46924,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Communication","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136154075","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 : 2023-09-13DOI: 10.1080/01292986.2023.2257230
Jaeyoung Hur, Joonseok Yang
This paper aims to empirically investigate how South Korean newspapers define and report refugee issues. More specifically, we identify the prevalent topics and sentiments in the newspaper coverage of Yemeni refugees by using two machine learning techniques—structural topic model (STM) and Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT). The analyses show that the most prevalent topic covered in the newspapers is ‘Humanitarian residence permit’—whether the government should provide it for humanitarian reasons—, followed by the topic ‘nationalism,’ which refers to criticism and concerns about losing ‘national identity’ by accepting more foreign residents. Hence, our results show that the local newspapers are more likely to report the need for humanitarian stay permits and convey factual information such as refugee crime, while the national newspapers tend to focus on contentious issues such as ‘nationalism.’ On the other hand, we find weak evidence for the difference in covered topics in Yemeni refugee news between conservative and liberal newspapers. The findings contribute to understanding how media frames refugee problems and also have policy implications.
{"title":"South Korean newspaper coverage of Yemeni refugees: analysis of topics and sentiments using machine learning techniques","authors":"Jaeyoung Hur, Joonseok Yang","doi":"10.1080/01292986.2023.2257230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01292986.2023.2257230","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to empirically investigate how South Korean newspapers define and report refugee issues. More specifically, we identify the prevalent topics and sentiments in the newspaper coverage of Yemeni refugees by using two machine learning techniques—structural topic model (STM) and Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT). The analyses show that the most prevalent topic covered in the newspapers is ‘Humanitarian residence permit’—whether the government should provide it for humanitarian reasons—, followed by the topic ‘nationalism,’ which refers to criticism and concerns about losing ‘national identity’ by accepting more foreign residents. Hence, our results show that the local newspapers are more likely to report the need for humanitarian stay permits and convey factual information such as refugee crime, while the national newspapers tend to focus on contentious issues such as ‘nationalism.’ On the other hand, we find weak evidence for the difference in covered topics in Yemeni refugee news between conservative and liberal newspapers. The findings contribute to understanding how media frames refugee problems and also have policy implications.","PeriodicalId":46924,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Communication","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135740548","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 : 2023-09-13DOI: 10.1080/01292986.2023.2257226
Wei Huang, Yuan Wang
Militaries worldwide have adopted various social media platforms to influence, inform and build relationships with strategic publics. Guided by the organization–public engagement framework, this study conducted a content analysis to examine the Chinese military’s social media practices for reaching out to the public. It analyzed the content patterns, message features, targeted publics, and engagement levels on WeChat. This study discovered that the Chinese military mainly used WeChat for information dissemination, promotion, mobilization, and interacting with intended publics (e.g. its internal servicemen). It also found that WeChat articles that used the promotion strategy, emotional appeal, fear appeal, conversational tone, and vividness strategy generated higher levels of public engagement. Theoretical and practical implications were also discussed.
{"title":"Military’s public relations practice in the social media era: exploring the Chinese military’s use of WeChat and public engagement","authors":"Wei Huang, Yuan Wang","doi":"10.1080/01292986.2023.2257226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01292986.2023.2257226","url":null,"abstract":"Militaries worldwide have adopted various social media platforms to influence, inform and build relationships with strategic publics. Guided by the organization–public engagement framework, this study conducted a content analysis to examine the Chinese military’s social media practices for reaching out to the public. It analyzed the content patterns, message features, targeted publics, and engagement levels on WeChat. This study discovered that the Chinese military mainly used WeChat for information dissemination, promotion, mobilization, and interacting with intended publics (e.g. its internal servicemen). It also found that WeChat articles that used the promotion strategy, emotional appeal, fear appeal, conversational tone, and vividness strategy generated higher levels of public engagement. Theoretical and practical implications were also discussed.","PeriodicalId":46924,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Communication","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135740159","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 : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.1080/01292986.2023.2251131
Myoung‐Gi Chon
ABSTRACT This study aimed to predict how individuals engage in activism combatting Asian hate crimes. It is critical to understand how publics engage in anti-Asian hate crime activism because their engagement leads to collective action to solve the issue. This study applies the integrative model of activism to anti-Asian hate crimes. The results showed that situational motivation in problem solving, social media efficacy, and affective injustice were positively associated with social media activism. In addition, this study examined the mediating role of social media activism. The results revealed that social media activism partially mediated situational motivation in problem solving and offline activism. Most notably, social media activism fully mediated between affective injustice and offline activism on anti-Asian hate crimes. Therefore, the integrative model of activism presents a valuable perspective for understanding how individuals participate in activism against Asian hate crimes and the role of social media in facilitating offline activism.
{"title":"The role of social media in empowering activism: testing the integrative model of activism to anti-Asian hate crimes","authors":"Myoung‐Gi Chon","doi":"10.1080/01292986.2023.2251131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01292986.2023.2251131","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study aimed to predict how individuals engage in activism combatting Asian hate crimes. It is critical to understand how publics engage in anti-Asian hate crime activism because their engagement leads to collective action to solve the issue. This study applies the integrative model of activism to anti-Asian hate crimes. The results showed that situational motivation in problem solving, social media efficacy, and affective injustice were positively associated with social media activism. In addition, this study examined the mediating role of social media activism. The results revealed that social media activism partially mediated situational motivation in problem solving and offline activism. Most notably, social media activism fully mediated between affective injustice and offline activism on anti-Asian hate crimes. Therefore, the integrative model of activism presents a valuable perspective for understanding how individuals participate in activism against Asian hate crimes and the role of social media in facilitating offline activism.","PeriodicalId":46924,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Communication","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45385549","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 : 2023-09-06DOI: 10.1080/01292986.2023.2253272
Xining Liao
ABSTRACT The Chinese government has developed a complicated online censorship regime targeting various media with diversified techniques. Prior literature has argued that the censorship system enjoys general support in China. However, how Chinese people perceive heterogeneous online censorship mechanisms and the corresponding censored objects remains unclear. This study focused on two different online censorship mechanisms in China: the Great Fire Wall and citizen reporting. Using survey data collected in China in 2019, we established two path models to investigate the relationships between perceived media effects, attitudes toward online censorship, desire for censored information, and media being surveilled by each censorship mechanism. Our findings have important implications for understanding the complexity and nuances in censorship-related attitudes in China.
{"title":"From the eyes of censorship supporters: Chinese attitudes regarding two types of online censorship","authors":"Xining Liao","doi":"10.1080/01292986.2023.2253272","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01292986.2023.2253272","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Chinese government has developed a complicated online censorship regime targeting various media with diversified techniques. Prior literature has argued that the censorship system enjoys general support in China. However, how Chinese people perceive heterogeneous online censorship mechanisms and the corresponding censored objects remains unclear. This study focused on two different online censorship mechanisms in China: the Great Fire Wall and citizen reporting. Using survey data collected in China in 2019, we established two path models to investigate the relationships between perceived media effects, attitudes toward online censorship, desire for censored information, and media being surveilled by each censorship mechanism. Our findings have important implications for understanding the complexity and nuances in censorship-related attitudes in China.","PeriodicalId":46924,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Communication","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48488834","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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