Breast cancer coverage in China and the United States: a comparative analysis of wire service news stories

Liu, Bing-Ying; Ley, Barbara L.; Brewer, Paul R.

doi:10.1080/17544750.2011.565676

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“…H2 projected a higher tendency at VOA to integrate human interest content than Xinhua, a pattern seen in comparative studies of U.S. and Chinese media (e.g. Beaudoin 2007;Liu, Ley, and Brewer 2011). The findings also support that hypothesis.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 66%

“…One early study doesn't find much variance in the emphasis on human interest angles, which foreground personal stories and narratives relevant to the issue, across Chinese and American newspapers (Luther and Zhou 2005). This pattern changed in latter studies though, with some pointing to U.S. outlets' higher tendency to employ a human interest emphasis compared to Chinese outlets when covering the SARS pandemic (Beaudoin 2007), breast cancer (Liu, Ley and Brewer, 2011), and economy (Zhao and Xiang 2019). Covering breast cancer in 2008, for instance, AP was more likely than Xinhua to invoke personal stories, ranging from the experiences of public figures with the disease to advocacy efforts by celebrities.…”

Section: News Coverage In Chinese and Us Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

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Soft Power Journalism: A Visual Framing Analysis of COVID-19 on Xinhua and VOA’s Instagram Pages

Damanhoury

Garud-Paktar

2021

Digital Journalism

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The coronavirus pandemic has been a battleground for China and the U.S. to score political points on international media. With outlets from both countries exemplifying distinct media systems, the coverage is very likely to differ between Chinese and U.S. media. Previous studies point to key differences across the two, with Chinese media being more pro-government, more focussed on the African community, and less reliant on reporting that emphasizes personal stories and negative economic impacts. Using visual framing as a theoretical lens, this study explores the intersection of soft power and journalism in Xinhua and Voice of America's (VOA) visual coverage of the coronavirus pandemic on Instagram. A quantitative and qualitative visual analyses of 1911 photographs reveals that Xinhua serves as a prototypical soft power media organization that projects pro-government narratives and downplays negative economic and social consequences of the crisis, while VOA operates as an aggregator of content from predominantly Western sources that viewers can consume elsewhere, hence making its coverage redundant and likely less effective and coherent. The study discusses the implications of both photojournalistic approaches on the global media market.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Section: News Coverage In Chinese and Us Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

Soft Power Journalism: A Visual Framing Analysis of COVID-19 on Xinhua and VOA’s Instagram Pages

Damanhoury

Garud-Paktar

2021

Digital Journalism

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“…When covering SARS, the Associated Press (AP) used more human interest frames to tell personal stories than China's Xinhua News Agency (Beaudoin, 2007). Similarly, AP featured more personal story frames than Xinhua did when covering breast cancer in China (Liu, Ley, & Brewer, 2011). Taken together, these studies suggest that episodic framing as a journalistic storytelling device routinely used in Western news media may be less prevalent in Chinese media.…”

Section: Thematic and Episodic Framing Of Health Issuesmentioning

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Thematic and Episodic Framing of Depression: How Chinese and American Newspapers Framed a Major Public Health Threat

Zhang¹,

Jin²

2017

AJMMC

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Given the health threat of depression in China and the US, as well as the importance of media framing for public understanding of the issue, this paper comparatively analyzed how Chinese and American newspapers thematically and episodically framed depression from 2000 to 2012. Grounded in the theoretical framework of frame building, we also attempted to shed light on how cultural values and organizational constraints influenced the ways in which media framed depression. Results showed that Chinese newspapers framed depression more thematically than American newspapers. American newspapers of national influence used more thematic framing than newspapers of regional/local influence. Despite an overall tendency of thematic framing, Chinese newspaper framing of depression became increasingly episodic over time. Implications for framing research and mental health communication are discussed.

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“…54 Similarly, AP featured more personal story frames than Xinhua did when covering breast cancer in China. 55 AIDS coverage by the official People's Daily also ignored individual victim cases. 56 Issue responsibility attribution may be more complex in Chinese health news framing, with the presence of contingency factors such as types of responsibilities (e.g., causal or problem-solving) and media organizations (e.g., state vs. local media).…”

Section: Media Framing and Responsibility Attribution Of Health Problemsmentioning

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Framing Depression

Zhang

Jin

Tang

2014

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

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As the first study of Chinese newspaper coverage of depression over the past twelve years, this paper analyzed how state-controlled Party press and market-oriented City press framed depression and attributed responsibilities at individual and societal levels. The study also explored how cultural and organizational factors influenced frame building. Findings indicate that print news coverage utilized more thematic than episodic framing. However, there was a gradual decrease in thematic and increase in episodic framing over time. Chinese newspapers placed more problem-solving (but not causal) responsibilities on the society. City press was less likely than Party press to make societal-level responsibility attributions.

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Breast cancer coverage in China and the United States: a comparative analysis of wire service news stories

Cited by 6 publications

References 27 publications

Soft Power Journalism: A Visual Framing Analysis of COVID-19 on Xinhua and VOA’s Instagram Pages

Soft Power Journalism: A Visual Framing Analysis of COVID-19 on Xinhua and VOA’s Instagram Pages

Thematic and Episodic Framing of Depression: How Chinese and American Newspapers Framed a Major Public Health Threat

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