Audience engagement with news on Chinese social media: A discourse analysis of the <i>People’s Daily</i> official account on WeChat

Wu, Geqi; Chun-lei, Pan

doi:10.1177/17504813211026567

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“…In fact, the effects of social media on a society are a well-studied phenomenon. However, for the millions of people worldwide with visual impairments, participating in these visual-centric platforms poses significant accessibility challenges that have historically excluded blind people from full usage and engagement [13]. By enabling people to communicate and share information, social media plays a critical role in strengthening the bonds between the communities, spreading critical information.…”

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confidence: 99%

Integration of Smart Cane with Social Media: Design of a New Step Counter Algorithm for Cane

Messaoudi,

Menelas,

Mcheick

2024

IoT

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This research introduces an innovative smart cane architecture designed to empower visually impaired individuals. Integrating advanced sensors and social media connectivity, the smart cane enhances accessibility and encourages physical activity. Three meticulously developed algorithms ensure accurate step counting, swing detection, and proximity measurement. The smart cane’s architecture comprises the platform, communications, sensors, calculation, and user interface layers, providing comprehensive assistance for visually impaired individuals. Hardware components include an audio–tactile interaction module, input command module, microphone integration, local storage, step count module, cloud integration, and rechargeable battery. Software v1.9.7 components include Facebook Chat API integration, Python Facebook API integration, fbchat library integration, and Speech Recognition library integration. Overall, the proposed smart cane offers a comprehensive solution to enhance mobility, accessibility, and social engagement for visually impaired individuals. This study represents a significant stride toward a more inclusive society, leveraging technology to create meaningful impact in the lives of those with visual impairments. By fostering socialization and independence, our smart cane not only improves mobility but also enhances the overall well-being of the visually impaired community.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integration of Smart Cane with Social Media: Design of a New Step Counter Algorithm for Cane

Messaoudi,

Menelas,

Mcheick

2024

IoT

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“…Chinese state media use social media platforms to confront these challenges (Huang and Lu, 2017). For instance, new organizations publish news on their websites and Weibo and WeChat accounts (Wu and Pan, 2021). Chinese state media have moved to social media and transitioned from didactic hard persuasion to softened emotion management.…”

Section: China State Media's Digitalizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, the social media accounts of Chinese state media have changed the old model of "you broadcast, and I watch" to a model that encourages interaction with audiences (Huang and Lu, 2017, p. 3). However, although news media have adopted digitalization, this has failed to transform their official, exclusive, and professional nature (Wu and Pan, 2021;Zhang, 2021). Liu and Zhou (2011, p. 218) noted that although the Weibo accounts of Chinese state media serve as a tool to capture the public voice, a platform to collect sources, and a channel to obtain social news, they also serve as propaganda tools to facilitate the spread of positive news and manage crises.…”

Section: China State Media's Digitalizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The softening of Chinese digital propaganda: Evidence from the People’s Daily Weibo account during the pandemic

Zhang

Shao

2023

Front. Psychol.

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IntroductionSocial media infuses modern relationships with vitality and brings a series of information dissemination with subjective consciousness. Studies have indicated that official Chinese media channels are transforming their communication style from didactic hard persuasion to softened emotional management in the digital era. However, previous studies have rarely provided valid empirical evidence for the communicational transformation. The study fills the gap by providing a longitudinal time-series analysis to reveal the pattern of communication of Chinese digital Chinese official media from 2019 to 2022.MethodThe study crawler collected 43,259 posts from the People’s Daily’s Weibo account from 2019 to 2021. The study analyzed the textual data with using trained artificial intelligence models.ResultsThis study explored the practices of the People’s Daily’s Weibo account from 2019 to 2021, COVID-19 is hardly normalized as it is still used as the justification for extraordinary measures in China. This study confirmed that People’s Daily’s Weibo account posts are undergoing softenization transformation, with the use of soft news, positive energy promotion, and the embedding of sentiment. Although the outburst of COVID-19 temporarily increased the media’s use of hard news, it only occur at the initial stage of the pandemic. Emotional posts occupy a nonnegligible amount of the People’s Daily Weibo content. However, the majority of posts are emotionally neutral and contribute to shaping the authoritative image of the party press.DiscussionOverall, the People’s Daily has softened their communication style on digital platforms and used emotional mobilization, distraction, and timely information provision to balance the political logic of building an authoritative media agency and the media logic of constructing audience relevance.

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“…Surfing the Internet through mobile phones has become one of the most frequently used communicative modes for the public to access social news and information. In China, WeChat (WēiXìn, micro-message) is the most popular social media app, with more than 1.17 billion active users by the first quarter of 2020 (Wu & Pan, 2021;Zhu, 2019). WeChat integrates diverse services and functions, including messaging, socialization, mobile payment, etc.…”

Section: Wechat Official Account As a Media Communicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Communicating Public Health Crisis: Mobile Social Media as a Multimodal Discourse in Times of COVID-19

2023

jpda

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Mobile social media have been conceptualized as a multimodal discourse that employs semiotic resources to represent public health communication in the context of the pandemic (COVID-19). This study considers Malaysia’s third COVID-19 wave in retrospect and seeks to investigate how this epidemiological crisis in Malaysia is visually communicated on mobile social media. Based primarily on Coleman’s (2010) concept of visual framing and van Leeuwen’s (2008) visual actor network, the present investigation is conducted as a qualitative inquiry from a critical social semiotic approach into 280 pictures presented on a popular WeChat Official Account in China (Weimalaysia (微大马). Much evidence is observed that visuals on mobile social media selectively emphasize certain features of the pandemic crisis in Malaysia. The findings indicate that Malaysia has an acceptable level of control over the pandemic and is generally positive in its outlook on combating COVID-19. The visual misinformation related to “intolerance” elements is not found. Findings not only testify the significance of visuals as valuable information resources in public health crisis communication but also demonstrate the effective role of WeChat official accounts, as a new mobile media discourse, in information dissemination and meaning construction on and around COVID-19.

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Audience engagement with news on Chinese social media: A discourse analysis of the People’s Daily official account on WeChat

Cited by 16 publications

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Integration of Smart Cane with Social Media: Design of a New Step Counter Algorithm for Cane

Integration of Smart Cane with Social Media: Design of a New Step Counter Algorithm for Cane

The softening of Chinese digital propaganda: Evidence from the People’s Daily Weibo account during the pandemic

Communicating Public Health Crisis: Mobile Social Media as a Multimodal Discourse in Times of COVID-19

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