| In the information society,the media has the power to construct reality;in disaster events,the "pseudo-environment" constructed by the media influences people’s cognitive outcome of specific objects.This study takes the construction of Wuhan people’s identity in online COVID-19 news as the starting point,focuses on the discursive strategies of news text production and reconstruction of social group identity,analyzes how news reports as a "meaningful practice system" construct Wuhan people’s Identity in COVID-19,and digs into the cultural structure and order in the current macro-social context.This thesis provides a reference for the news media to rationally construct the image of the disaster carrier and rebuild social consensus.This thesis is based on identity theory from the perspective of media construction and cultural studies,and uses text mining and discourse analysis to conduct research.From microscopic linguistic analysis,mesoscopic discourse structure strategies,and macroscopic socio-cultural significance,it comprehensively analyzes the discourse construction of Wuhan people’s collective identity in COVID-19 by online news media.On the specific path,this study selected more than230,000 news related to the Wuhan COVID-19 from December 23,2019 to May 31,2020 through the keyword search of the Chinese news database of Nanjing University,and then retained 11,317 reports about Wuhan people between January 2020 and May 2020 in the form of keyword screening and manual review as the research sample,and conducted text mining on the above samples The results were combined with the data results to summarize the constructed images of Wuhan people in the news texts,and the more typical reports were selected for discourse analysis in terms of textual content,discourse practices,and cultural logic to analyze the discourse strategies of media construction and the cultural motivations behind it.Research findings:(1)The news texts about Wuhan people revolve around six themes of front-line reality,authoritative interpretation,government control,resumption of work and production,COVID-19 treatment,and support from all sides;(2)The news content is mostly positive emotional expressions and reports,and the number of reports is closely related to national policy deployment and the current situation of COVID-19;(3)the news texts focus on ordinary people from all walks of life,and Wuhan people are described as " the infectious source of disease for social control and governance ","the vulnerable people who bear the suffering of COVID-19 ","the reborn people who receive social help ",and "national citizens who know how to be grateful and dedicated ";(4)News reports show a trend of changing from independent individuals to collective heroes,focusing on the people of Wuhan who work together to fight COVID-19 on the front line,The people of Wuhan have shaped the collective identity of "heroic people" as a whole;(5)News reports use the political metaphor of "People’s War" to connect individuals and groups to symbolize the social and national identity of Wuhan people;(6)News constructs a community of society and the country through the four cultural dimensions: the evocation of the archetype in the historical context,the defense of the mainstream in the political context,the public rationality in the social context,and the emotional rendering in the personal context;(7)The collective identity of Wuhan people further strengthens the community identity of society and the country,highlighting the cultural identity of society and the country;(8)The political control and professionalism forces in the news show an orderly synergy,reflecting a politically-led news negotiation and complicity.We find that news media reports on the image of Wuhan people are not only limited to the depiction of social facts,but also tend to transform the group’s actions against COVID-19 into group spirit,which is closely combined with the collective content of national development,national destiny and social construction,Strengthening the community identity of the society and the country behind the collective heroes. |
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