Do Chinese Internet users care about news? Tracking news consumers on the Internet in a metropolis 2009–2011

Shen, Fei; Liang, Hai

doi:10.1080/17544750.2013.816755

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“…Under the ideological control of the Communist Party, the Chinese government prohibits commercial news websites from engaging in interviews and independent reporting [6]. Commercial ones aggregate news catering to the audiences to get traffic and three strategies could be adopted: improving in-depth thematic coverage, taking advantage of user-generated content, and promoting soft-news that related to entertainment, sports, and "less serious" social incidents and news which is not necessarily political [7]. Therefore the commercial news websites could introduce alternative voices to the public discourse [8].…”

Section: Media Environments In Chinamentioning

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Network Agenda-Setting in Contemporary China

Shen,

Han

2023

Atlantis Highlights in Computer Sciences

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The theory and empirical researches of network agenda-setting are relatively mature, but lack explanatory power in the Chinese context. This study takes the "Anshun bus accident" in July 2020 as a case and conducts an empirical study on network agenda-setting to examine its explanatory power in the Chinese context, exploring the relationship between media agenda and public agenda, as well as the interrelationship between different media agendas. Using Weibo as the research platform, 64 media reports from central official media (People's Daily), local official media (The Paper), and commercial media (Sina News), as well as 1280 Weibo comments and replies are analyzed for content, and co-occurrence matrixes of media and public attributes are formed. The QAP function in UCINET 6 software is applied for social network analysis to test the correlation between agendas. The study reveals that all three types of media have network agenda-setting effects on the public, with official media having a stronger effect than commercial media. At the same time, official media agendas are likely to affect commercial media agendas.

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Section: Media Environments In Chinamentioning

confidence: 99%

Network Agenda-Setting in Contemporary China

Shen,

Han

2023

Atlantis Highlights in Computer Sciences

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“…Under the influence of China's political system, official media have been playing a dominant role in the development of China's media industry [ 25 ]. However, semi-privatized commercial media do publish original content by offering additional information as an alternative to official propaganda (for details of semi-privatized commercial media in China, see [ 26 ]). For example, some semi-privatized commercial media like Sina covered stories that addressed the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic during the prepandemic period between January 1 and 20, 2020 [ 27 ].…”

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Intermedia Agenda Setting amid the Pandemic: A Computational Analysis of China’s Online News

Wang

Shi

2022

Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience

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Based on Intermedia Agenda Setting (IAS), the current study examines how official media and semi-privatized commercial media on the Weibo platform covered the COVID-19 pandemic in China. Both supervised machine learning and time series analysis were employed to analyze 350,059 Weibo posts released by 3,883 news sources between December 2019 and April 2020. Our results indicated that, in this nonwestern state-regulated China media environment, official and semi-privatized commercial media had a significant reciprocal relationship in news coverage. Both of them focused on “treatment on patients,” “work resumption,” and “propaganda and mobilization.” Importantly, this paper sheds light on the value of the fine-grained level of agenda in IAS research. Using a fine-grained analysis, we separately investigated the effects of official and semi-privatized commercial media on predicting the pandemic prevalence, referring to the number of confirmed cases reported in real time. Implications and future directions were further discussed.

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When politics intervenein non-political news flow

Zhang

2020

ASJ

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Abstract While intermedia agenda-setting scholars have examined the process from a global perspective, trans-regional intermedia agenda setting, especially in non-western context, remains understudied. By analyzing the time-series data of news coverage on air pollution, a non-political topic, from online news media in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan from 2015 to 2018, this study revealed a triangular first-level agenda-setting relationship among the three regions and identified the changing agenda setters across years, which disproves the imperialistic stereotype that there is a one-way control from mainland China media. The study also revealed the significant yet unconventional moderating effect of the political stance of news organizations in the trans-regional information flow. This study contributes to the intermedia agenda-setting literature by introducing the method of controlling the real-life situation in the Granger Causality test and by showing that non-political issues can also be politicalized in the salience transferring process.

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Do Chinese Internet users care about news? Tracking news consumers on the Internet in a metropolis 2009–2011

Cited by 7 publications

References 53 publications

Network Agenda-Setting in Contemporary China

Network Agenda-Setting in Contemporary China

Intermedia Agenda Setting amid the Pandemic: A Computational Analysis of China’s Online News

When politics intervenein non-political news flow

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