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Ting, Tin-yuet, and 丁天悦. "The influence of globalization on foreign news: insights from German press coverage of China." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45985558.
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Yuan, Jingtao. "Chinese Newspaper Coverage of the Beijing Olympics Games: A Comparative Framing Study of Chinese Media." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10190.
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viii, 89 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.The Olympics games are not only a sport but also a media event. In 2008, China hosted the Olympics Games for the first time. The coverage of the Beijing Olympics Games in the Chinese media can reflect the characteristics of media and societal development in today's China. The study examines qualitatively the use of frames in coverage of the Beijing Olympics Games in 11 dailies and 2 weeklies in China. Four new issue-specific frames are found in the Chinese newspapers. The use of the existing six generic and five issue-specific frames are discussed in the Chinese context. The study finds that the Chinese media get more freedom in some areas that do not have direct links with politics. In the areas related to politics, the government is still controlling the media.
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Ng, Wing-tung Peter, and 吳永東. "The social construction of the Chinese youth new arrivals and crime inHong Kong newspapers: reflecting the truepicture?" Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B30252684.
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Cheng, Qijin, and 程绮瑾. "Suicide and the media in the Chinese contexts." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B49617606.
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The suicide and the media research field are generally concerned with the effect, content, and production of mass-disseminating suicide information. Most of the previous studies in the field were conducted in western countries. This dissertation is devoted to extending the research map to the Chinese contexts and moving the field forward into the new media era. It proposes a conceptual framework based on the social construction of reality theory and refines the framework through a combination of five studies.
Study 1 might be the first investigation on mass-disseminating suicide information’s effect on suicide occurrences in Mainland China, using the Foxconn suicides as a case study. It finds that the Foxconn suicides were temporally clustered and influenced by inter-person contagion within the company, as well as the newspapers’ reporting about the topic in Beijing, the nation’s capital.
Study2 examines the prominence and representation patterns of reporting the Foxconn suicides in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan in 2010 calendar year. It demonstrates that the media coverage of the Foxconn suicides in the three societies generally experienced a three-phase evolving process in 2010. Meanwhile, within every phase, the media in different societies showed differences in their representations. Furthermore, the study investigates how the representation can be influenced by news sources and social contexts and explores possible explanations why the Beijing media’s reporting influenced the occurrences of the Foxconn suicides.
Study3 compares representation of suicides in case-control psychological autopsy studies with representation of the same suicides in Hong Kong media. Considering the psychological autopsy as relatively more rigorous and validated, the comparison examines the suicide news representation’s accuracy and stereotyping tendencies. It finds a strong homogenisation of the Hong Kong newspapers in accurately reporting suicide methods but inaccurately reporting suicide risk factors, and that their reporting was problematic in stereotyping of gender-and method-specific suicides.
Study 4 is a qualitative study of 33newspaper journalists’ experiences with producing suicide news from representative daily newspapers in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Utilising the grounded theory method, it extracts how the journalists construct media reality of suicide within a social context. The study summarises criteria of suicide news values, identifies three types of key agents which are often engaged by the journalists in constructing suicide news, and also generates a comparative framework of suicide news production in the Chinese contexts.
Study 5 examines what suicide-related information is easily accessible online in Mainland China and Hong Kong and compares it with its counterparts in English. It explores how the comparative framework proposed by Study 4 can also be applied to understand the nature of the online suicide information and serves as a bridge connecting the thesis with future studies on suicide and the new media.
The five studies collectively contribute to understanding the nature and mechanism of constructing media reality of suicide in the Chinese contexts. By applying the research findings, suicide prevention professionals would be able to develop context-sensitive strategies to cooperate with the media and prevent suicide.published_or_final_version
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Mukundu, Rashweat. "A critical discourse analysis of the coverage of operation "Restore Order" (Operation Murambatsvina) by Zimbabwe's weekly newspapers, the state-owned The Sunday Mail and the privately owned The Standard, in the period 18 May to 30 June 2005." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002925.
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On May 16 2006 the government of Zimbabwe embarked on a clean-up programme of urban centres, destroying informal human settlements and informal businesses. This operation, which the government called operation "Restore Order", resulted in the displacement of nearly one million people and left thousands of families homeless. This study is a discussion and an analysis of the coverage of the clean-up operation by two of Zimbabwe's leading Sunday newspapers, The Sunday Mail and The Standard. The Sunday Mail is owned by the Zimbabwe government and The Standard is privately owned and perceived to be oppositional to the current Zimbabwe government. The two newspapers, therefore, covered the clean-up operation from different perspectives and often presented conflicting reports explaining why the clean-up operation was carried out and the extent of its impact on the lives of millions of Zimbabweans. The chosen research approach is the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) framework as developed by Fairclough (1995). Using CDA, this study seeks to find out and expose the underlying ideological struggles for hegemony between different social and political groups in Zimbabwe and how the newspapers became actors in this process. This process is made possible by looking at how news reporting is organised in the two newspapers, issues of language use, sourcing and external factors that influenced the coverage of the operation.
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Zhang, Li Na. "From press agentry to public information : analyzing coverage of public health crises in China's newspapers." Thesis, University of Macau, 2004. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b1636348.
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Hsu, Pu-Shih Thomas. "The Chinese-Canadian news presses' coverage of Canada's recognition of the People's Republic of China and its effects on the Vancouver Chinese community, 1968-1972 /." Burnaby B.C. : Simon Fraser University, 2005. http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/handle/1892/2358.
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Chiu, Ming-wah, and 趙明華. "Resistance, peace and war: the Central China Daily News, the South China Daily News and the Wang Jingwei Cliqueduring the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2005. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3624689X.
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Cheng, Xiaojing. "Chinese metaphors in political discourse : how the government of the People's Republic of China criticizes the independence of Taiwan." CardinalScholar 1.0, 2009. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1467028.
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This dissertation discusses various underlying conceptual metaphors used to describe the issue of Taiwan’s independence in the PRC media in light of Conceptual Metaphor Theory. The conceptual metaphors underlying linguistic expressions that are used to depict the independence issue in Chinese for a total number of nineteen concepts are examined. It is also argued that the conceptual bases for some chengyu, fixed expressions in Chinese, can be explained within Conceptual Metaphor Theory, but others cannot since some of the conceptual mappings constructed are context specific. The secondary metaphors found in some chengyu are based on the original association of one domain with another in the allusion or historical story. In short, this study provides empirical evidence for Conceptual Metaphor Theory in that the use of metaphor is extremely prevalent in at least one genre of Chinese political writing. It also examines Chinese chengyu from a cognitive point of view.Department of English
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Dai, Cuixiang. "A path to social upheaval : media and the construction of revolutionary fashion." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2010. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/1175.
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Leung, Chi Mei Christine. "Diversity, news source and the politics of production in the Chinese media : 5 Ps stakeplayers' influences on disability news content in Beijing and Hong Kong's press between 1982-2005." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2008. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/930.
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Dumm, Elena. "Show No Weakness: An Ideological Analysis of China Daily News Coverage of the 2019 Hong Kong Protests." Wittenberg University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wuhonors1617884910805174.
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雷惠明. "對比《東方日報》與《大公報》的自由行框架的異同." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2005. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/679.
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Vava, Blessing. "China in Africa: China’s media image in Zimbabwe: the case of the Herald and NewsDay." Thesis, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/24588.
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A research report submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Journalism and Media Studies, 2017This study investigates China’s media image in Zimbabwe. It does so through the lens of two leading newspapers: The Herald and NewsDay during the intense election campaign period of 2013. It deploys both quantitative and qualitative content analysis of newspaper articles drawn from The Herald and NewsDay in order to investigate the image of China in the Zimbabwean media. In terms of theoretical underpinnings, it draws from various media and communication theories. These include the broad area of image studies and framing theory to understand the media-constructed image of China before, during and after the 2013 electioneering period. These communication theories are tested and applied as a means of gaining insights into how the media shape images of China in Zimbabwe and in Africa generally. The findings of this study suggests that during this period the media image of China was projected in a more positive light in The Herald when compared to the negative images and depictions in the NewsDay. It shows that the economic consequence frame dominated the coverage of China thereby portraying the East Asian country as an economic partner, donor, economic saviour, development source and investor in Zimbabwe. The study also reveals that the construction of the media image of China is influenced by interplay of several factors such as the editorial slant of news producers, economic and political pressures influencing the polarised media environment in Zimbabwe.
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Chari, Tendai Joseph. "Press-citizen interface in a fragile society: mapping press and citizen discourses on election violence during presidential and parliamentary elections in Zimbabwe, 2000-2013." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/22743.
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Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Media Studies, 2016Many African countries have been holding regular elections since the “Third Wave” of democratisation which reintroduced multi-party politics on the African continent, but few of these elections meet the democratic litmus test, due to, among other factors, the prevalence of election violence. The press has been justifiably or unjustifiably indicted for these imbroglios on account of alleged transgressions linked to its overt or covert incitement to violence. In the ensuing political contestations, citizens bear the burden of diminished prospects of credible information occasioned by a highly politicised press. In the Southern African region, there is no better case to illustrate the entanglement of the press in electoral contestations than Zimbabwe. This study is a qualitative exploration of press and citizen discourses on election violence during the presidential and parliamentary elections held in Zimbabwe between 2000 and 2013. A Foucauldian discursive analytic approach was used to analyse the representation of election violence in two-state-owned and four privately-owned newspapers during presidential and parliamentary elections held over the specified period spanning thirteen years. The study also examined how these press discourses interrelate with citizen discourses. Empirical data were drawn from a corpus of archival textual data comprising hard news and feature articles published in The Herald, The Sunday Mail, The Zimbabwe Independent, The Financial Gazette, Newsday and the Daily News. In-depth interviews were conducted with purposively targeted journalists and editors from the selected newspapers. In addition, in-depth-interviews were held with twenty-one (21) regular newspaper readers who were also politically engaged citizens. The main observation was that press representation of election violence was marked by antagonistic discursive practices reflective of the rivulets of political and ideological bifurcation. Consequently, competing and politically expedient journalistic philosophies emerged. The state-owned press used a model of ‘national interest’ journalism while the privately-owned press preferred the ‘human-rights’ model which crystallized into an over-arching ‘activist journalism’. This ‘activist’ journalistic approach found expression through an array of anti-democratic press discursive practices epitomised by selectivity, silence and salience, the consequence of which was that citizens were starved of credible and impartial information. This thesis argues that the anti-democratic discursive practices deployed by the press camps blunted the citizenry’s critical engagement with the exact motivations, causes and manifestations of election violence. These anti-democratic discursive practices have a potential to engender a culture of political intolerance with long-term consequences that predispose society to political conflict rather than consensus building.
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Mandizvidza, Lisborn Webster. "Interrogating the role of Zimbabwe‟s print media in environmental reporting." Thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/24736.
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Text in EnglishThe study aimed to explore the coverage of environmental news by Zimbabwe‟s print media. The research is premised on the admission that the press covers environmental issues in their reportage. However, the study revealed that there are challenges obtaining in environmental reporting by the three weeklies, namely; Daily News on Sunday, The Financial Gazette, and The Sunday Mail. The use of content analysis and critical discourse analysis in analysing the environmental news stories helped to highlight the shortcomings of media houses and journalists as depicted by their choice of words or phrases, the inclusion as well as exclusion of certain viewpoints. The study analysed environmental news in themes such as imminent decimation of wildlife through poaching, climate change, violation of wetlands, destruction of forests, and land reclamation. To aid the understanding and appreciation of environmental reporting by the press, the study utilised three media theories, namely, agenda-setting, development media theory, and framing. Chapter one focused on introducing the context of the study, as well as justifying it, and adopted the qualitative research method for the study. Chapter two gave an extended review for the study. Chapter three provided the research methodology. Chapter four analysed environmental stories published by the Daily News on Sunday.Chapter five analysed environmental stories which were published in The Financial Gazette.Chapter six gave an analysis of environmental news published in The Sunday Mail. Chapter seven concluded the study by giving a summary of the central argument of the study which was that the Zimbabwean press fell short in effectively and efficiently sourcing, selecting and disseminating environmental news. The chapter proffered some recommendations which point to some areas which require further studies.
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"An empirical analysis of press monitoring in China's publicly traded companies." 2008. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5896779.
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Yin, Xiani.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 58-59).
Abstracts in English and Chinese.
ABSTRACT --- p.ii
摘要 --- p.iii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --- p.iv
ABSTRACT --- p.ii
Chapter Chapter 1. --- Introduction --- p.8
Chapter Chapter 2. --- Literature Review --- p.14
Chapter Chapter 3. --- Institutional Background of the Political Control of Chinese Media --- p.19
Chapter Chapter 4. --- Data and Sample Selection --- p.24
Chapter 4.1 --- Data source --- p.24
Chapter 4.2 --- Sample selection --- p.25
Chapter 4.3 --- News collection --- p.28
Chapter Chapter 5. --- Summary Statistics --- p.29
Chapter Chapter 6. --- Methodology --- p.33
Chapter 6.1 --- Event study --- p.33
Chapter 6.2 --- Using CAR to calculate the overall market response after earnings announcement --- p.36
Chapter 6.3 --- Measuring announcement date effects on stock performances --- p.36
Chapter 6.4 --- Measuring news effect using CAR and Statistical Inference --- p.37
Chapter Chapter 7. --- Empirical Results --- p.39
Chapter 7.2 --- Overall market response after the earnings announcement --- p.42
Chapter 7.3 --- Market reaction to official earnings announcements --- p.43
Chapter 7.4 --- Market reaction to news report ´ؤ event study --- p.44
Chapter 7.5 --- Differentiate higher circulation news effects on the market from lower circulation news --- p.47
Chapter 7.6 --- Differentiate regional publications news effects on the market from national publications news --- p.48
Chapter 7.7 --- Relationship between the number of news items and Cumulative Abnormal Return --- p.49
Chapter 7.8 --- Relationship between “news influence coefficient´ح and Cumulative Abnormal Return: --- p.51
Chapter 7.9 --- "Relationship between “news influence coefficient´ح, CAR, and number of restructuring activities in the second year" --- p.53
Chapter 7.10 --- "Relationship between the number of restructuring activities, CAR, different news influence coefficient, and the third year ROE change" --- p.55
Chapter Chapter 8. --- Conclusion --- p.57
Tables --- p.61
Table 1 Summary Statistics on Basic Information of the Sample --- p.61
Table 2 Summary Statistics on ROE Change --- p.61
Table 3 Two-sample Mean Comparison Test of the Earnings Performance Between the Subgroup with Negative News and the Subgroup Without Negative News --- p.62
Table 4 Statistics about the number of restructuring activities of the companies with negative news --- p.63
Table 5 Daily Average CAR over Different Periods --- p.64
Table 6 Two-sample Mean Comparison Test --- p.65
Table 7 Average Abnormal Returns From 3 Days Before Announcement to 10 Days After Announcement --- p.66
Table 8 Abnormal Returns on the First Headline News Date and First Negative News Date --- p.67
Table 9 Cumulative Abnormal Returns 10 Days After the First Headline News and First Negative News in a Clean Comparison --- p.68
Table 10 Cumulative Abnormal Returns 10 Days After the First Headline News and First Negative News --- p.69
Table 11 Comparisons of the CAR Between Higher and Lower Circulation News --- p.71
Table 12 Comparisons of CAR Between Regional and National First Headline News --- p.72
Table 13 Linear Regression Results With Dummy Variables --- p.73
Table 14 Linear Regression Results with Number of News Items --- p.77
Table 15 Linear Regression Results With “news influence coefficient´ح --- p.80
Table 16 Poisson Regression Results with Number of News --- p.84
Table 17 Linear Regression Results with Number of News --- p.86
Table 18 Final Event Study Results --- p.88
"Figure 1: Average CAR across Sample over (-3, 90) Days" --- p.92
Appendix 1: Sample Companies --- p.93
Appendix 2: Record of News Reports for Each Firm --- p.96
Appendix 3: Number of Restructuring Activities During the Second Year --- p.99
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"The concern of a nation's face: evidence in the Chinese press coverage of sports." 1989. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5886176.
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"The role of news in a changing power structure: a study of press coverage of political reforms in Hong Kong." Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1989. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5886143.
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"Covering AIDS in China: a study of People's daily and Southern weekend, 1985-2001." 2003. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5891501.
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Tang Le.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2003.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 102-116).
Abstracts in English and Chinese.
Abstract (in English) --- p.i
Abstract (in Chinese) --- p.ii
Chapter Chapter 1 - --- Introduction --- p.1
Chapter 1.1. --- The AIDS epidemic in China --- p.1
Chapter 1.2. --- The media system in China --- p.5
Chapter Chapter 2 - --- Literature Review --- p.14
Chapter 2.1. --- AIDS coverage in previous studies --- p.14
Chapter 2.2. --- Framing --- p.19
Chapter 2.3. --- Significance of this study --- p.26
Chapter Chapter 3 - --- Research Design --- p.28
Chapter 3.1. --- Research hypothesis --- p.28
Chapter 3.2. --- Research method --- p.30
Chapter Chapter 4 - --- Results --- p.36
Chapter 4.1. --- Discourse analysis --- p.36
Chapter 4.2. --- Content analysis --- p.49
Chapter Chapter 5 - --- Conclusion and Discussion --- p.67
Chapter 5.1. --- Conclusion1 --- p.67
Chapter 5.2. --- Conclusion2 --- p.71
Chapter 5.3. --- Discussion of reasons --- p.77
Chapter 5.4. --- Implications --- p.85
Note --- p.93
Appendix --- p.96
Bibliography --- p.102
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"Framing China: a study of selected American newspapers' coverage of the Hainan crisis, 2001." 2006. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5896503.
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Lam Kwan Heung.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 135-137).
Abstracts in English and Chinese; appendices in English with some Chinese.
Abstract --- p.ii-iv
Acknowledgement --- p.v
Table of Contents --- p.vi
Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1-6
Chapter Chapter 2 --- Literature Review --- p.7-22
Chapter Chapter 3 --- Research Methods --- p.23-35
Chapter Chapter 4 --- An Overview on Hainan --- p.36-46
Chapter Chapter 5 --- Framing of Hainan --- p.47-92
Chapter ´Ø --- International law and order
Chapter ´Ø --- U.S. peacekeeping surveillance
Chapter ´Ø --- Victimized U.S
Chapter Chapter 6 --- Framing of China --- p.93-125
Chapter ´Ø --- China's skewed media
Chapter ´Ø --- China as a problematic communist state
Chapter ´Ø --- China as a secretive military power
Chapter ´Ø --- China's aggression towards Taiwan
Chapter ´Ø --- China's buying off U.S. politicians
Chapter Chapter 7 --- Conclusion --- p.126-134
Bibliography --- p.135-137
Appendices --- p.138-182
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Gadzikwa, Wellington. "Tabloidisation and the coverage of political issues in Zimbabwe - the case of Joice Mujuru." Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/24739.
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The study critically explored the tabloidisation of political news in Zimbabwe by focussing on the coverage of the expulsion of Joice Mujuru from ZANU PF and government by selected newspapers. The study analysed three national dailies across the ownership divide; The Herald, Daily News and NewsDay. The objective of the study was to establish whether or not the decline in standards of journalism and performance in Zimbabwe could be attributed to tabloidisation. The study employed a qualitative methodology through qualitative content analysis and in-depth interviews to assess whether the framing reflected tabloid or broadsheet journalism styles. The framing of Joice Mujuru by The Herald was pejorative and derisive as she was depicted as corrupt, traitor, inept and a simplistic thinker who cannot handle issues to do with statecraft. Daily News sympathised with Joice Mujuru as a victim of chauvinistic factional politics in ZANU PF, especially, after the death of her husband, General Solomon Mujuru. The study argued that Joice was also depicted as a brave leader who could challenge for the office of the president, if she formed a coalition with MDC –T leader Morgan Tsvangirai. Daily News sought to counter all the negative framing of Joice Mujuru by The Herald. NewsDay framing was sympathetic, like Daily News but was more inclined on creating an image of a moderate leader in Mujuru, one who would be acceptable to all Zimbabweans because she had the critical liberation war credentials that Tsvangirai lacked and Mujuru’s perceived abilities to extricate the country from the economic challenges by mending relationships with the West. Despite the diametrically opposed frames in terms of The Herald versus Daily News and NewsDay, all the newspapers are undergoing the damaging process of tabloidisation by employing tabloid styles and formatting in their political news coverage through sensationalism, trivialisation and emotionalism. It was argued that the media needs self-introspection and recommitment to ethical and objective journalism as the watchdogs of society.Communication
D. Litt. et Phil. (Communication)
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"A new dynamic of gender discourses?: a textual analysis of the representation of Shengnü in television dramas and women's magazines' websites." 2013. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5884344.
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Ling, Qi.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2013.
Includes bibliographical references.
Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web.
Abstracts also in Chinese.
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"How is nationalism framed in mainland China media with different levels of government control: case study of Sino-Japanese relationship." 2006. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5892939.
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Chiu Yuen Ming Vivian.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 82-87).
Abstracts in English and Chinese.
Chapter Chapter 1 - --- Introduction --- p.1
Chapter 1.1 --- Overview --- p.1
Chapter 1.2 --- Significance --- p.7
Chapter Chapter 2 - --- Literature review --- p.8
Chapter 2.1 --- Definition of nation --- p.8
Chapter 2.2 --- History of Chinese nationalism --- p.8
Chapter 2.3 --- From state nationalism to popular nationalism --- p.16
Chapter 2.4 --- Three levels of Chinese nationalism --- p.17
Chapter 2.5 --- Media and nationalism --- p.17
Chapter 2.5.1 --- Media in China- newspapers --- p.20
Chapter Chapter 3 - --- Framing --- p.22
Chapter 3.1 --- Overview --- p.22
Chapter 3.2 --- Four different frames --- p.24
Chapter 3.2.1 --- National self respect --- p.27
Chapter 3.2.2 --- National self strengthening --- p.28
Chapter 3.2.3 --- Co-operation with Japan --- p.30
Chapter 3.2.4 --- National humiliation --- p.31
Chapter 3.3 --- Framing Sino-Japanese relationship --- p.33
Chapter Chapter 4 - --- Methodology --- p.35
Chapter 4.1 --- Theoretical concern --- p.35
Chapter 4.2 --- Case study --- p.35
Chapter 4.2.1 --- First case study: the Mukden incident --- p.36
Chapter 4.2.2 --- Second case study: Junichiro Koizumi's visit to Yasukuni Shrine --- p.37
Chapter 4.3 --- Media text --- p.39
Chapter 4.3.1 --- People's Daily --- p.40
Chapter 4.3.2 --- Global Times --- p.42
Chapter 4.3.4 --- Southern Metropolis News --- p.45
Chapter 4.4 --- Data and sampling --- p.47
Chapter 4.5 --- Content analysis --- p.49
Chapter 4.6 --- Hypothesis --- p.50
Chapter 4.7 --- Coding categories and schemes --- p.54
Chapter 4.8 --- Coding training --- p.55
Chapter Chapter 5 - --- Results --- p.57
Chapter 5.1 --- Overview --- p.57
Chapter 5.2 --- Quantitative results --- p.59
Chapter Chapter 6 - --- Discussion --- p.67
Chapter 6.1 --- Analysis --- p.67
Chapter 6.1.1 --- National self respect --- p.68
Chapter 6.1.2 --- National self strengthening --- p.70
Chapter 6.1.3 --- Co-operation with Japan --- p.72
Chapter 6.1.4 --- National humiliation --- p.74
Chapter 6.2 --- Implications --- p.76
Chapter 6.3 --- Limitations and further study --- p.78
Chapter 6.4 --- Conclusion --- p.80
Bibliography --- p.82
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"News framing in crisis: a study of Hong Kong's press coverage of the 1989 pro-democracy movements in China." Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1990. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5886552.
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by Tak-hung Fung.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1990.
Bibliography: leaves i-v.
ABSTRACT
CHAPTERS
Chapter 1. --- Introduction --- p.1
Chapter 2. --- News framing
Chapter 2.1 --- The Concept of News Frames --- p.4
Chapter 2.2 --- The Formation of News Frames --- p.5
Chapter 3. --- Routine Mode Vs Crisis Mode
Chapter 3.1 --- Definition of Crisis --- p.14
Chapter 3.2 --- Framing the News: Routine and Crisis --- p.15
Chapter 3.3 --- Routine Mode vs Crisis Mode: A Comparison --- p.19
Chapter 4. --- The Press Structure in Hong Kong
Chapter 4.1 --- The Political Press --- p.21
Chapter 4.2 --- The Commercial Press --- p.22
Chapter 4.3 --- Framing Chinese News: The Routine Mode --- p.23
Chapter 5. --- "Hypotheses, The Case and Methodology"
Chapter 5.1 --- Hypotheses --- p.27
Chapter 5.2 --- The Case --- p.28
Chapter 5.3 --- Research Method --- p.31
Chapter 6. --- Dissensus in Routine Mode: The First Stage
Chapter 6.1 --- Key Events During the First Stage --- p.34
Chapter 6.2 --- The Leftist Press --- p.35
Chapter 6.3 --- The Commercial Press --- p.43
Chapter 6.4 --- The Rightist Press --- p.46
Chapter 6.5 --- Summary --- p.49
Chapter 7 --- From Routine To Crisis: The Second Stage
Chapter 7.1 --- Key Events During the Second Stage --- p.54
Chapter 7.2 --- The Leftist Press --- p.55
Chapter 7.3 --- The Commercial Press --- p.68
Chapter 7.4 --- The Rightist Press --- p.74
Chapter 7.5 --- Summary --- p.77
Chapter 8 --- Consensus In Crisis
Chapter 8.1 --- Key Events During the Third Stage --- p.79
Chapter 8.2 --- Framing The Crisis --- p.79
Chapter 9. --- Return To Normalcy
Chapter 9.1 --- The Leftist Press --- p.90
Chapter 9.2 --- The Commercial Press --- p.95
Chapter 9.3 --- Reporting the Anniversary Under the Routine Mode --- p.96
Chapter 10. --- The Newsroom In Crisis
Chapter 10.1 --- The Leftist Press --- p.99
Chapter 10.2 --- The Commercial Press --- p.108
Chapter 10.3 --- The Rightist Press --- p.112
Chapter 11. --- Discussion and Conclusion --- p.113
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Mushore, Washington. "Media construction of reality : a critical analysis of the reportage of land reform in Shona and English Zimbabwean newspapers : the case of Kwayedza, The Herald, The Daily News and The Daily Mirror, 2000-2008." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/10201.
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The study critically explored the language of reportage of the Zimbabwe Land Reform programme as presented in selected Shona and English newspapers in Zimbabwe. The study focused on Kwayedza, The Herald, The Daily News and The Daily Mirror. The objective was to find out whether or not the verbal and visual languages used in reporting the Land Reform programme left readers more knowledgeable about the programme, and then adopt a critical attitude towards the Land Reform exercise. The study used qualitative textual analysis to unpack the language frames used in representing Land Reform in the selected newspapers. Some relevant critical voices from readers were also enlisted in order to support or complicate interpretations of how Land Reform was portrayed in the selected stories.
Kwayedza and The Herald unequivocally supported the Land Reform. This official stance was contested in Chapter Four in which The Daily News adopted an ideological position opposed to both the idea of the Land Reform and the confiscatory way the land was repossessed. The Daily News’ extremely negative criticism of the Land Reform was challenged and then modified in The Daily Mirror. The Daily Mirror criticised both the government’s extremely supportive view of the Land Reform. The Daily Mirror also openly criticised The Daily News for refusing to acknowledge the historical inevitability and necessity of the Land Reform. The Daily Mirror advanced a perspective that suggested that Land Reform programme should benefit the masses more than the elites. It was argued that in contexts of political change such as that of Zimbabwe, newspapers take a stance and support particular ideological interests.African Languages
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Umejei, Emeka Lucky. "Troubled watchdogs: the paradox of journalism in Chinese media orgnanisations based in Africa." Thesis, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/24518.
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A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, March, 2017.This thesis examines how African journalists negotiate the tension between their understanding of journalism and the actual practice of journalism within the context of Chinese media organisations based in Africa. Adopting the Shoemaker and Reese (1996) hierarchy of influences model and using interviews with African journalists in Kenya and content analysis, I examine this tension within the framework of the relationship between role conception and role performance. China has framed its media expansion into Africa on the premise that it aims to tell the ‘true African story’ to global audiences. This is consistent with China’s Africa policy promising mutuality and equality between China and Africa. However, the findings indicate an African and a Chinese level of gatekeeping and journalistic agency exist within Chinese media organisations based in Africa. These levels often coexist, but they also collide, resulting in Chinese interests and ideas prevailing over those of African journalists, and often in a type of journalism that de-emphasises African belonging and identity. This study represents an original contribution to the debate on the relationship between role conception and role performance, from a non-western perspective. It demonstrates the ways in which the relationship between role conception and role performance within Chinese media organisations in Africa is hinged upon conditional autonomy in relation to the typology of stories. The elements of the hierarchy of influences model are more active when Chinese interests are present in a story than when they are absent. Consequently, the editorial policy of ‘positive reporting’ promoted by Chinese media organisations is more active in the coverage of activities related to China than non-China content. This thesis enriches the five levels of analysis in Shoemaker and Reese’s hierarchy of influences model. This study proposes language as a level of influence straddling media routines and organisation influences, when applied to Chinese media organisations in Africa. This thesis also contributes to the ideologisation debate on Chinese media expansion into Africa. While the debate has been dominantly framed through the Manichean prism of positive or negative, this thesis proposes Chinese media expansion into Africa will result in a hybrid form of journalism professionalisation in which Western and Chinese journalistic traditions co-exist on the continent.
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"Odjectifying a health crisis: risk exemplar, news making and social risks = 健康危機的客觀化 : 風險範例、新聞建構、與社會風險." 2014. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b6116103.
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我們身處於一個充滿風險的社會。金融海嘯、核能危機、全球暖化、食品問題等，在說明社會步向現代化的後遺症，正如何為人類帶來更難預測的風險，並無孔不入般影響我們的日常生活(Beck, 1992)。在這理論基礎上，本文將探究新聞製作於建構風險的角色，並提出一個名為「客觀化」(objectification) 的過程---新聞媒體如何在科學專家的意見眾說紛紜、對風險難有最終定案之下，把有關社會風險的新聞論述詮釋為客觀的社會事實。我尤其探討風險範例的建構---一些有關風險的新聞事件其後演變為重要範例，並影響日後類似事件的新聞論述。為求以實證方法探究風險「合理化」的過程，我將以香港(中華人民共和國的特別行政區) 的新聞論述如何回應2009年全球豬流感危機作為案例。豬流感是香港經歷2003年非典型肺炎危機(又稱「沙士」) 的重創後，首次面對的全球疫症危機。香港新聞如何呈現豬流感疫情，亦深受「沙士」時的歷史回憶、經驗及後遺所影響。故此，這案例有助我研究風險範例於風險「合理化」時的作用。我從香港報章隨機抽樣出有關豬流感的新聞論述的樣本，並透過內容分析和文本分析，研究香港新聞如何敍述豬流感危機，以及相關敍述所包含的意識形態。我亦走訪了當年採訪豬流感新聞的新聞工作者、有份向傳媒提供專家意見的醫學專家、以及負責制定香港政府防控豬流感政策的官員，以了解建構豬流感風險背後的社會互動。
本文的研究顯示，香港有關豬流感危機的新聞論述，是如何奠基於「沙士」這風險範例而建構。豬流感起來襲初時，新聞論述廣泛地藉「沙士」的經驗去詮釋豬流感可能帶給香港的後果。新聞工作者於「沙士」時的採訪經歷，亦成為他們報道豬流感新聞時尋找醫學專家意見的參照經驗，尤其是當醫學專家意見紛紜、新聞工作者要判斷誰人的意見較有權威去界定健康風險之時。本文主要闡述新聞的建構於社會回應風險時所起的關鍵作用，從而帶出這於風險社會理論、以及當我們探究新聞媒體及傳播於現代風險社會的角色時，仍未受足夠重視的重要層面。
We are witnessing the formation of a risk society, with financial instability, nuclear catastrophes, global warming, and food crises, and just to give a few examples, becoming parts of our everyday life in an age of risk characterized by uncertainties stemming from system failure of modernization (Beck, 1992). In the light of this theoretical concern, in this study I shall scrutinize how news making plays its role in the construction of risk. This, I suggest, is a process of risk objectification ---how news media justifies its discourse of social risk by making social facts upon uncertainties and inconclusive scientific opinions. Specifically, I shall focus on the creation of risk exemplar. That is, some news events become critical exemplar that would shape the news construction of subsequent crises of similar sources.
To look into the process of risk objectification empirically, I shall examine what were the main features of the news discourse in Hong Kong, a Special Administrative Region of China, in reaction to the global health crisis of Swine Flu in 2009. Swine Flu was the first pandemic crisis encountered by Hong Kong after its devastating suffering from the epidemic of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2003. The news representation of Swine Flu was influenced by the historical memory, experience and legacies of SARS and this helps illustrate how risk exemplar contributes to risk legitimization. I carried out content and textual analysis respectively on a random sample of Hong Kong’s newspapers for the purpose of analyzing the key narrations of Swine Flu and the underlying ideological packages of such narrations. I also conducted in-depth interviews with journalists, medical experts and public officials who were deeply involved in the news making of Swine Flu so as to uncover the social dynamics in the process of risk construction.
Key findings of this thesis highlight how the health crisis of Swine Flu was staged by the risk exemplar of SARS. Experience of SARS was widely drawn upon for making sense of the potential impacts of Swine Flu when it first broke out. It was also the key reference for journalists when seeking expert advices, particularly when identifying those who are more authoritative among different opinions in defining the nature of the risk. It is my argument that news making plays a critical role in the shaping of the social reactions to a risk. My analysis thus adds an important, but somehow unduly neglected, dimension to theory of risk society and our understanding of the role of news media and communication in contemporary risk society.
Detailed summary in vernacular field only.
Detailed summary in vernacular field only.
Detailed summary in vernacular field only.
Chan, Chi Kit.
Thesis (Ph.D.) Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2014.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 240-250).
Abstracts also in Chinese.
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"Remembering the Tiananmen incident: a longitudinal study of media representations in Hong Kong, 1989-1999." 2000. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5890365.
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Li Yee Ching, Magdalene.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 154-160).
Abstracts in English and Chinese.
Acknowledgments --- p.i
Abstract --- p.ii
Chapter Chapter 1: --- Introduction
Overview --- p.1
Research Objective --- p.5
Conceptualization --- p.7
Organization of the paper --- p.11
Chapter Chapter 2: --- Communication and Collective Memory
Overview --- p.13
Collective Memory and Social Changes --- p.20
Collective Memory and Political Changes --- p.22
Mass Media and Collective Memory --- p.23
Chapter Chapter 3: --- Research Design
Discourse Analysis of the Representation of June4 --- p.31
Data Analysis --- p.34
Chapter Chapter 4: --- Initial Frames of Remembrance of the Tiananmen Incident in1989
The Structure of the Available Past --- p.38
The 1989 Pro-Democracy Movement in Beijing --- p.40
Framing the June 4 Incident in the Hong Kong Context --- p.45
Contextualizing the 1989 Pro-democracy Movement --- p.56
June 4 and the Hong Kong Media --- p.61
Chapter Chapter 5: --- The First Anniversary of the Crackdown in1990
Commemoration and Collective Memory --- p.66
The Commemoration Project of June4 --- p.67
The Media as a Field of Memory --- p.68
Cultivating Collective Memory --- p.70
Interpreting the Changes in Memory --- p.77
Chapter Chapter 6: --- The 5th Anniversary of June 4 in1994
The Script of the June 4 Anniversary --- p.80
The Commemoration Project in1994 --- p.81
Shifting Media Representations of Key Players --- p.83
Subdued Commemoration of the Media --- p.91
The Context of Changes in the June 4 Memory --- p.93
The Role of the Media --- p.96
Chapter Chapter 7: --- The June 4 Incident Commemoration on the Eve of the1997 Handover
Contradictions in the Memory of June4 --- p.101
Media's Coverage and the June 4 Commemoration --- p.103
Representation of Major Actors in1997 --- p.104
Media's Interpretation of the Meaning of June4 --- p.113
Interpreting the Changes --- p.115
Chapter Chapter 8: --- Commemorating the June 4 Incident in a Chinese City The 10th Anniversary of June4
Ambiguous Definition of the June 4 Incident --- p.120
The Media and the Mnemonic Dispute --- p.124
The Wider Context of the 10th Anniversary --- p.128
Remembering to Forget: Interpreting the Changes in1999 --- p.131
Chapter Chapter 9: --- Conclusions: The People Will Not Forget --- p.136
Bibliography --- p.154
Appendix 1: Survey on People's Opinion on the June Fourth Incident --- p.161
Appendix 2: Protocol for Textual Analysis --- p.163
Appendix 3: Interview Protocol --- p.164
Appendix 4:Interviewee Profile --- p.165