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A Study Of Framing Of Reports On China By Chinese Language Media Overseas

Posted on:2016-12-28Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:R N SunFull Text:PDF
GTID:2298330467996445Subject:Communication
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America is one of the places where overseas Chinese Newspapers originated, and well developed during these years. Coverage on China by those media has a profound effect on Ethnic Chinese’s impression of China and its national identity.Sampling134reports on Fourth Plenary Session of Eighteenth CPC Central Committee, including80reports from The China Press and54reports from World Journal in October, the research is designed to discover news frame of Chinese political reporting on Chinese Language Newspaper overseas. It concerns three research questions:1. How do the Chinese language media in America report the Session?2. What are the news frames of The China Press and World Journal?3. What are the factors that may influence the way the two newspapers frame the event?Based on framing theory in communication, the article has done a content analysis on reports of The China Press and World Journal from six aspects:amount and newspaper layout, type of news, topics, news source, perspectives and tendency.The results indicate that reports on two newspapers are similar in some aspects: length of article, type of news, editing news more than covering stories and the neutral tendency on the whole, while they presents two different news frames. The China Press presents a comprehensive news frame, focusing on the publicity of the meeting and its achievements, and World Journal holds a decentralized news frame, emphasizing covering the officials involved in corruption, especially Zhou Yongkang and Xu Caihou. Media position, editor guidelines and identity of journalist affect the framing of reports by The China Press and World Journal. We should be aware that problems exist among Chinese language media while reporting China. Maintain and even expand readership in a more competitive media world, overseas Chinese media need to be more professional and objective on Chinese issues. China should enhance the communication with overseas media, both officially and privately for better cultural identity among ethnic Chinese and better national images in the world.Originality of this thesis lies in two ways:1. Few existing research compares two Chinese media in the U.S.,2. Few media study focus on Fourth Plenary Session of Eighteenth CPC Central Committee, not to mention overseas Chinese newspapers.Limitations of this research are that, results of comparative study of two newspapers may fail to be applied to all overseas Chinese language media, and the difficulty to get the statistics up to date. Also, it is beyond my academic ability to figure out the underlying causes of the framing of report due to limited background.
Keywords/Search Tags:Chinese language media overseas, The China Press, World Journal, framing analysis
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