Political Myth as Strategic Communication: Analysis of Chinese Dream’s Rhetoric and English News Media’s Interpretation

Zhong, Lingzi; Zhang, Juyan

doi:10.1080/1553118x.2015.1105229

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“…The sizes of data sets range from small to moderate due to the fact that large data sets are intractable for manual analysis even if the text units are short. The range is well illustrated by the studies by Zhong and Zhang (2016) and Xiang (2013) which concern 63 and 4250 units of analysis, respectively.…”

Section: Prior Quantifications Of China’s Image In Western Mediamentioning

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“…The main body focuses on European and US media coverage of China. Most studies conclude that China is portrayed either selectively or negatively (see, for instance, Peng, 2004; Willnat & Luo, 2011; Xiang, 2013; Zhang & Cameron, 2003; Zhong & Zhang, 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Prior studies that specifically focus on China’s media image mostly consist of small-to-moderate data sets. In these studies, the sample size ( N) ranges from 63 (Zhong & Zhang, 2016) to 4250 (Xiang, 2013). Moreover, the bulk of the prior studies have analyzed US-based specific newspapers such as the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal .…”

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Automated quantification of Reuters news using a receiver operating characteristic curve analysis: The Western media image of China

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Pahikkala

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Global Media and China

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Country images are increasingly popular but controversial policy concepts. The Western news media image of China is consequently a well-explored academic subject. This study contributes to the discussion by considering the news stream of an international news agency to contrast prior studies that analyze small-scale data sets. An automated dictionary method is proposed to analyze two Reuters data corpora RCV1 (1996-1998) and TRC2 (2008-2009) (N = 1,386,000). The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve is employed and its development over time is statistically analyzed. China's media image was found to be relatively positive in comparison with Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. The results also suggest that economy provides a greater positive impact on the China's image in Western media than culture, while politics has a negative impact. The results of the automated method are similar to those of a previous study in which a moderately sized data set was manually examined. This suggests that automated sentiment analysis can provide equally reliable observations as manual analysis but with smaller labor costs.

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Section: Prior Quantifications Of China’s Image In Western Mediamentioning

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Section: Prior Quantifications Of China’s Image In Western Mediamentioning

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Automated quantification of Reuters news using a receiver operating characteristic curve analysis: The Western media image of China

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“…Since 2012, for example, the country developed political narratives about 'the Chinese Dream' and 'national rejuvenation', presenting a political myth to both domestic and international audiences to justify China's rise as a prosperous and powerful nation. 74 The myth lays out a multi-layered policy agenda in which strategic communications plays a major role, both domestically and globally. It focuses on multiple objectives, such as (1) raising the per capita income of its citizens, (2) strengthening social welfare to maintain internal stability, (3) projecting culture to promote the country's values, and (4) improving environmental conditions, all ensuring the continuity of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).…”

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Strategic Communications as a tool for great power politics in Venezuela

Lima¹

2019

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Since the Cold War, Latin America has escaped any confrontation between the great powers. However, in the last decade, this scenario appears to have changed because of the increased presence of extra-regional actors. Recent developments in Venezuela dramatically illustrate this. China and Russia have become defining actors in Venezuela's domestic dispute, using it as a platform for their global interests. The current crisis involves not only the power resources of traditional international competition-diplomatic, economic, and military-but also new means in the informational and cyber environment. This paper analyses the balancing strategies of China and Russia in Latin America and the role of their strategic communications. It argues that China and Russia employed two divergent balancing strategies to counter US regional hegemony in the Americas, and that each state projected strategic communications particular to each type of balancing. Consequently, China employs communications to ensure resources for its economic development, and to gain influence, presenting itself as a credible and responsible non-Western great power. Russia, meanwhile, employs information campaigns as part of hybrid warfare to promote hard balancing, to pressure United States hegemony in the Americas, and to reduce NATO's influence in Eastern Europe.

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“…Estudos diversos mostram a presença de uma mitologia política com ampla vitalidade, como sugerem estudos -e a enumeração aqui não tem pretensão de exaustividade -realizados por Ávila Neto (2012), Garcia (2018), Onge (2018), Zhang e Zhong (2016), Kranert (2018), Reid (2017) e Zglobiu (2017) em países de quatro continentes. Essas pesquisas sugerem não apenas uma expansão da utilização de narrativas míticas na política como também sua potencialidade nos estudos da área e mesmo em uma concepção mais ampla de política.…”

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Possibilidades e limites do conceito de “mito político”: aspectos genealógicos e operacionais da noção nos estudos de Comunicação

Hoffmann¹,

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Marques

2020

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O que é um mito político? Embora a expressão seja relativamente corrente nos estudos de comunicação política, não parece ter sido problematizada com a mesma frequência. Este artigo delineia alguns aspectos da noção com vistas a compreender alguns de seus significados e usos da literatura atual sobre estudos políticos. O conceito, empregado como operador interpretativo e epistemológico, ainda demanda um maior tensionamento em termos de sua gênese e potencial hermenêutico. A partir de pesquisa bibliográfica, este texto sublinha três aspectos da ideia: (1) uma genealogia inicial do conceito, enfatizando a articulação entre “mito” e “política”; (2) a questão contemporânea do “mito” nos estudos de comunicação política e (3) as tensões entre mito e entretenimento em uma sociedade midiatizada. Esses argumentos são enquadrados nos debates sobre mídia e política.

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Political Myth as Strategic Communication: Analysis of Chinese Dream’s Rhetoric and English News Media’s Interpretation

Cited by 10 publications

References 22 publications

Automated quantification of Reuters news using a receiver operating characteristic curve analysis: The Western media image of China

Automated quantification of Reuters news using a receiver operating characteristic curve analysis: The Western media image of China

Strategic Communications as a tool for great power politics in Venezuela

Possibilidades e limites do conceito de “mito político”: aspectos genealógicos e operacionais da noção nos estudos de Comunicação

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