Seeking Channels for Engagement: Media Use and Political Communication by China's Rising Middle Class

Wang, Xin

doi:10.1142/s0219747209000247

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“…Limited press freedom indicates the absence of independent journalism, low quality of news, and lack of transparency, thus curbing the development of informed public discourse (Sen, 1999). Under such circumstances, citizens are motivated to seek additional channels for information dissemination, opinion expression, and engagement (Pestin 2011;Wang, 2009;Wei et al, 2014). For instance, citizen journalism in nondemocratic contexts contributes a great deal to the circulation of public opinion both online and offline, and sometimes, impacts how mainstream media cover social and political issues (Goode, 2009;Moyo, 2009).…”

Section: Media Environment and News Engagementmentioning

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Does political efficacy equally predict news engagement across countries? A multilevel analysis of the relationship among internal political efficacy, media environment and news engagement

Luqiu

2019

New Media & Society

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This study serves as the first to examine the mechanism of news engagement with regard to the three proposed dimensions (i.e. overall news engagement, user-user news engagement, and user-content news engagement) across 36 countries. We employed hierarchical linear modeling to test how internal political efficacy and media environment—both political and technological, shape news engagement based on the multinational cross-sectional survey data ( N = 72,930). The findings showed that internal political efficacy was positively associated with news engagement. Press freedom was negatively associated with user-content news engagement; Internet penetration was negatively associated with the three indicators of news engagement. Press freedom negatively moderated the effect of internal political efficacy on user-content news engagement. The study advances our understanding about the individual and contextual mechanisms of news engagement. It also renders significant implications for news organizations to consider the role of media environment while practicing engagement.

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Section: Media Environment and News Engagementmentioning

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Does political efficacy equally predict news engagement across countries? A multilevel analysis of the relationship among internal political efficacy, media environment and news engagement

Luqiu

2019

New Media & Society

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“…Upper class could be defined as a group of people who are well educated, own business, earn more than their needs, have very safe future in terms of finances and they enjoy luxuries. Middle class is defined as a group of people who possess high level of education, professional skills and a relatively stable and high income (Wang, 2009). They usually lack luxuries but they enjoy a stable life style.…”

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Cultivation of Fear Through Media: Analysis to Reveal Relationship between Perception about COVID 19 and Socio-economic Background of Media Consumers

Manzoor

Safdar

2020

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COVID-19 is the pandemic that has been experienced by the whole world presently. The present research sought to explore how media is cultivating fear among heavy and light users of upper, middle, and lower socio-economic background. Theoretical support for the present research was taken from the theory of cultivation analysis. Twenty-one residents of Multan belonging to upper, middle and lower socio-economic background were selected through snowball sampling technique and interviewed through WhatsApp by the researchers. The interview data was analyzed through NVIVO 10. Eight themes emerged out of the interview data and it was observed that media was cultivating fear among the users of upper and middle socio-economic backgrounds as they were using media for longer periods of time while media users of lower socio-economic background were not very fearful of this pandemic. The results supported that media has strong cultivation effects regarding COVID-19.

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“…Commercial interest began to influence the news (Wang, 2009;Zhao, 1998). In 1978, business management was introduced to media institutions by the State Ministry of Finance, particularly focusing on The People's Daily and seven other newspapers in Beijing.…”

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Media coverage and government policy of nuclear power in the People's Republic of China

Wang

2014

Progress in Nuclear Energy

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Seeking Channels for Engagement: Media Use and Political Communication by China's Rising Middle Class

Cited by 11 publications

References 24 publications

Does political efficacy equally predict news engagement across countries? A multilevel analysis of the relationship among internal political efficacy, media environment and news engagement

Does political efficacy equally predict news engagement across countries? A multilevel analysis of the relationship among internal political efficacy, media environment and news engagement

Cultivation of Fear Through Media: Analysis to Reveal Relationship between Perception about COVID 19 and Socio-economic Background of Media Consumers

Media coverage and government policy of nuclear power in the People's Republic of China

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