Research On Newspaper Coverage Of School Bullying In Mainland China

In recent years,bullying in campus has been reported for many times.Except for casing physical injuries to under-age children,bullying also has indescribable influence on their mental health.Currently bullying issue in campus in China has been increasingly prominent,leading to general attention and concern from society.This study is based on the theory of social conflict and by aid of risk communication and framed-structure analysis to analyze related reports from newspapers and journals.The first chapter mainly introduce the basis of choosing samples and the standards of categorizing.The second chapter analyze the social communication mechanism of the related reports from the perspectives of the reason why the incident turns into public incident from the claimed "accidental injuring incident" by the school,audience behavior mechanism and media behavior mechanism in the communicating of the incident."Zhongguancun Second Primary School" touch the pain point of the society in a long term,which is also the concentration of reflection in campus of the complicated social contradictions.The widely reported incident arouse the empathy of the public and form the spectators of the incident as the result of emotional appeal and control.On the other side,media construct the framework of the risk communication by surpassing risk information,monitoring risk environment,transferring risk focus and coordinating risk sequence.Chapter 3 and chapter 4 use the research method of content analysis and text analysis,from the perspectives of news report and content separately,by analyzing the characters of the number of media reporting,reporting genre,information source,reporting tone,reporting perspectives and reporting topic of "Zhongguancun Seconf Primary School Incident" ,it is concluded that the related reports have such characters: numerous media reports and short reporting cycle,mainly in the form of commenting,information and communication style,information sources mainly come from journalists' interviewing and writing,basic tone is positive public opinion and focus on improving school management.Reporting topics are concentrated and language styles are various.In the end,based on previous summary and analysis,the author suggests to pursue various reporting perspectives and to enrich reporting topics,balance information sources and pay attention to the minority,to track following reporting more intensively and make reporting as part of social reality as well as to adjust the relationship between nation and media to lower the risk of news production.Hopefully this study could shed some light to the news and journal reports about bullying in campus.