| News Apps emerged in the trend of mobile networks and smart phones. It is a fast and convenient way of transmitting news with rich content, interactive sharing, customized news feeding and multimedia presentation. It has enriched its types and attracted many users within its development of six years, and has become a new hotspot App after Weibo and Wechat. Big-Data Research’s latest survey shows that, by the end of 2014, there were 830 million smart phone users in China, of which 59.6% were users of news Apps.In the age of mobile networks, news Apps are providing the “information flow” as the material for constructing “pseudo-environment”, shaping audiences’ views of the real world, and thus shouldering the responsibility of molding public opinions. Therefore, conducting a long-term research of the news provided by news Apps, to find out the laws of news selection, news frame and agenda setting, is helpful to understanding and analyzing the current media and public opinion environment, as well as providing suggestions for improving the quality of news in news Apps.Considering their dominant position in market share, this thesis selects Tencent News App, Netease News App and Sohu News App as the commercial news App sources of news samples. In order to conduct a comparative study between the commercial and governmental news Apps, CCTV news App is also included as the governmental news App source of news samples. By encoding and categorizing the news samples, this thesis analyzes and summarizes the characteristics of news frame and agenda setting in the news samples, describes the “pseudo-environment” that constructed by the sample news Apps, and tries to find the connections and differences in terms of news frame and agenda setting between these two kinds of news Apps.This thesis manages to conclude the dominant frames for events and characters, analyses the characteristics of form and content of agenda setting, and based on that, find out that the “pseudo-environment” described by the news Apps tends to be negative. On the other hand, the news frame and agenda setting of the commercial news Apps and governmental news Apps tends to be similar.At last, this thesis gives suggestions for improving disadvantages of the mainstream news Apps in terms of news frame and agenda setting. |
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