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Changes Of Urban And Rural Communication In China: Research On Urbanization News Of People's Daily (1949-2009)

Posted on:2012-09-22Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:D YueFull Text:PDF
GTID:2218330338963650Subject:Journalism
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Urbanization is an inevitable trend of society's progress, which has great significance to the economic development and evolution of society of China. Urbanization is not only the radical method to change dual economy to a whole, but also helps to narrow the gap between the country and city and realize sustainable development.After the policy of reforming and opening, urbanization in China is accelerating, has accomplished notable achievements. As urbanization has become the focus of China, urbanization news in media is increasing in recent years. Most of the researches about urbanization and the media take urbanization as the background, analyze how the media change to suit all kinds of changes caused by urbanization. The thesis takes a different angle, analyzes the text to find out how the media report urbanization.As China's most authoritative official newspaper, urbanization news in People's Daily can represent government's attitude to urbanization most. The thesis regards urbanization news of People's Daily from 1949-2009 as the research object, applying the frame theory to analyze the sample. First of all, uses the method of quantitative analysis to analyze the content from the following eight aspects:number of news, genre of news, category of news, tone of news, source, theme of news, geographical distribution, urban and rural distribution, describing the frame of urbanization news of People's Daily. Second, divides the text into four stages. First, uses the method of quantitative analysis to analyze from the perspective of horizontal, examining the news frame of each stage. Then analyzes the news from the qualitative point of view, interpreting the text to find out the influence about urbanization to urban, rural, urban and rural communication. Finally, examines the changes of four stages in news from the perspective of vertical, analyzing the changes of frame of urban, rural, urban and rural communication.The full text is divided into six parts:The first part is introduction of background. Clarify the research background and the purpose of the study, introduce the main research method briefly.The second part is illustration of theory. First review related research about urbanization at home and abroad; then summarize associated documents of frame theory from origin of frame, meaning of frame and media frame.The third part is analysis of the whole urbanization news of People's Daily. Use the method of quantitative analysis to analyze urbanization news of People's Daily from the following aspects:number, genre, category, topic and other dimensions, describe the frame, conclude the role of urbanization news of People's Daily in the process of urbanization.The forth part is analysis of every stage of urbanization news of People's Daily. Divide the 61 years into four stages according to characters in every stage of urbanization, examine the frame at each stage of urbanization news from the horizontal angle; then interpret the news, analyze how urbanization affect urban, rural, urban and rural communication.The fifth part is analysis of changes of the four stages in news from the perspective of vertical, examining the changes of frame of urban rural, urban and rural communication.The sixth part is conclusion of urbanization news of People's Daily. Summarize the character through the analysis of urbanization news of People's Daily, find out the deficiencies.
Keywords/Search Tags:frame theory, People' s Daily, urbanization, urban and rural communication
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