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Book Review: Psychophysiological Measurement and Meaning: Cognitive and Emotional Processing of Media Global Media and China (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-18 Yuqing Zhu
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Performing fear in television production: Practices of an illiberal democracy Global Media and China (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Renyi He
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Book review: The Routledge Companion to media industries Global Media and China (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Junyi Ji
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Introduction: Feminist media production and beyond Global Media and China (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Tracy Ying Zhang, Alison Harvey
This special issue features five articles written by a group of established and emerging researchers, who carefully examined the challenges and opportunities for women's participation in media production across platforms and nations. Overall, the case studies in this special issue extend and broaden current conversations about gendered media-making practices by emphasizing an intersectional, transnational
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Water as elemental medium and heritage: The case of Sangyuanwei Polder embankment system Global Media and China (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Lei Xi
This paper argues that elemental media studies, which emphasize the entanglements between humans and non-humans, can offer new avenues for addressing the challenges faced by post-humanist heritage studies. Due to the importance of tourism for heritage revitalization, this paper examines the limitations of the local tourism industry’s understanding of the water element in the context of the tourism
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Twitch spouse: Livestreaming and the legacy of spousal labour in the video game industry Global Media and China (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Christine H Tran
Precarious careers in the games industry have long relied on the unpaid and largely feminized support of spouses and family members. This paper addresses the role of spouses and other domestic cohabitants in the production of live game broadcasts on Twitch, Amazon’s world-leading platform in live video entertainment. I introduce the heuristic of the ‘Twitch Spouse’ to underscore the crucial role that
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Remediated memory, digital witnessing and engagement: A qualitative analysis of the interactive documentary ‘The Space We Hold’ Global Media and China (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Weikun Fan
This paper sets out to study how creative documentary practices deconstruct traumatic memory, and then digitalise witnessing and engagement afforded by digital technology in the award-winning online interactive documentary The Space We Hold. Premised on culture memory studies and documentary studies, the social function of the documentary in reshaping narratives and forging public engagement has been
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Does ChatGPT change artificial intelligence-enabled marketing capability? Social media investigation of public sentiment and usage Global Media and China (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Vu Minh Ngo
The recent advent of ChatGPT has stirred substantial attention and debates, potentially altering the dynamics across various industries, notably marketing. This pioneering study delves into the public reactions and applications of ChatGPT within marketing realms. Leveraging a text-mining methodology, a corpus of over 600,000 tweets harvested before and after ChatGPT’s launch from January 2021 to April
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Care(lessness) in precarious journalism, before and during the pandemic: Freelancers’ work-life experiences and coping strategies Global Media and China (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Mirjam Gollmitzer
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, interest in care as a potential remedy for a variety of issues and crises, such as improving global health justice or creating more “caring” educational systems, has increased across academic disciplines. This article contributes to this literature from the perspective of journalism studies. It explores whether the notion of care captures and addresses one facet of the
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Data sovereignty and platform neutrality – A comparative study on tiktok’s data policy Global Media and China (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Chunmeizi Su, Wenjia Tang
Digital sovereignty has attracted growing attention as governments around the world attempted to exert national influence over international platforms. Agenda of nation-states becomes apparent when...
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Strategic Stories: Weaponized or Worldmaking? Global Media and China (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-19 John Hartley
The deployment of strategic stories, that is, stories designed to prevail over adversaries, is at work in domestic politics as well as in diplomacy. In both cases, the strategy has two aims: to cre...
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EU digital economy competition policy: From ex-post to ex-ante. The case of Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, and Meta Global Media and China (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Nicholas Nicoli, Petros Iosifidis
Since 2007, the European Commission (EC) has opened numerous competition cases regarding Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, and Meta (AAAM). Enforcement, however, has remained elusive, prompting a new regula...
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The role of citizens in platform governance: A case study on public consultations regarding online content regulation in the European Union Global Media and China (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-04 Charis Papaevangelou
This article proposes to start considering the role that citizens play in platform governance as a way of critically reflecting on issues of inclusivity in and effectiveness of current decision-mak...
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Determinants of escape from echo chambers: The predictive power of political orientation, social media use, and demographics Global Media and China (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-23 Chi Kit Chan, M M Zhao, Paul SN Lee
This study aims to understand the determinants of escape from echo chambers. Social media users can control the content to which they are exposed by confining their contacts to like-minded individu...
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The weaponization of private corporate infrastructure: Internet fragmentation and coercive diplomacy in the 21st century Global Media and China (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-12 Juan Ortiz Freuler
In the early 1990s, US leaders promoted the internet as post-nation “global information infrastructure.” However, throughout the 2000s, critical internet infrastructure became centralized under the...
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Book Review Global Media and China (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-06-29 Shasha Wang
Qing Cao, Doreen Wu and Keyan G. Tomaselli (eds), Brand China in the Media: Transformation of Identities (Routledge, 2020), 248 pp. £36.99 (paperback), £120.00 (hardback) and £31.44 (e-book). Contributors: David Feng, Dezheng Feng, Doreen Wu, Duncan Harte, Hugo de Burgh, Ian Weber, Jiayu Wang, Jieyun Feng, Lejin Zhang, Natalia Riva, Patrick Ng, Peng Wu, Qing Cao, Qiyun Han, Shaoyan Ding and Yanan Li
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Online Fiction Writers, Labor, and Cultural Economy Global Media and China (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-05-31 Wei He, Lei Lin, Anthony Fung
This paper explicates a new form of cultural economy, namely individual cultural economy, with the case of online writing platform. Critical studies of creative workers on online platforms have rev...
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Influenced or to be influenced: Engaging social media influencers in nation branding through the lens of authenticity Global Media and China (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-05-26 Xiufang (Leah) Li, Juan Feng
Social media influencers are emerging as a new force in shaping public discourse and raising public awareness of socio-political agendas in the digital space. This paper explores the role of influe...
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Book Review: Introduction of Computational Communication by Zhang Lun, Wang Chengjun, and Xu Xiaoke Global Media and China (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-08 Dani Fadillah, Luo Zhenglin, Bai Long
The term “Big Data” has gained familiarity in the previous year in various academic forums, but its history dates to the early 1960s. Additionally, statistics have shown that “global citizens” became conversant with their data and analysis during those years (Asri, Mousannif, & Moatassime, 2019). What exactly does “Big Data” mean? This is a term used to represent the vast amount of structured and unstructured
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Book Review: Transmedia in Asia and the Pacific: industry, practice and transcultural dialogues Global Media and China (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2022-01-10 Andrew White
As a relatively nascent field, the study of transmedia is dominated by a small number of western academics writing from a mainly western perspective. To a certain degree this is reflected in this edited volume, with many of the contributors referencing University of California Professor Henry Jenkins, a pioneer in the field. But, while this is not the first collection to consider transmedia practices
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Collectivism and Altruistic Behavior: A Third-Person Effect Study of COVID-19 News Among Wuhan Residents Global Media and China (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2021-10-18 Yicheng Zhu, Ran Wei, Ven-Hwei Lo, Mingxin Zhang, Zongya Li
This study examines the third-person effects of COVID-19 news among Wuhan residents during the peak of the outbreaks in the city. Using data collected in a telephone survey of 1,071 Wuhan residents, results show that respondents believed others were more influenced by the COVID-19 news. However, the more the respondents systematically processed the news through elaboration and the more they were oriented
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Smartphone-based visual normativity: Approaches from digital anthropology and communication studies Global Media and China (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2021-07-28 Daniel Miller, Xinyuan Wang
In this special issue, we would like to take this opportunity to demonstrate the value and strength of a conversation between digital anthropology and communication studies around the topic of visual communication and the use of the smartphone.
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Book Review: Tim Jordan, The Digital Economy. Global Media and China (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2021-06-09 Dave Elder-Vass
Tim Jordan’s book is organised around the surprisingly difficult question, ‘what is the digital economy?’ (p. 1). He approaches it through five case studies and two theory chapters before turning to policy recommendations inspired by his analysis. The case studies look at the search and advertise model, social media sites, disintermediation by companies such as Uber and Airbnb, fully free digital services
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Introduction: Creative labour in East Asia Global Media and China (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2020-12-22 Jeroen de Kloet, Jian Lin, Yiu Fai Chow
In this introduction to this special issue on creative labour in East Asia, we explore how the creative industries discourse, and related debates around creative labour, continue to be haunted by a Eurocentric cum Anglocentric bias. The critical language of this discourse often directs all discussion of “inequality”, “precarity” and “self-exploitation” of creative labour towards a critique of “neoliberalism”
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K-pop boot camps in choreographic co-creative labor Global Media and China (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2020-12-22 Kai Khiun Liew, Angela Lee
The worldwide popularity of South Korean popular music has generated global consumer demand for variations of its grueling training regimen offered by talent recruitment agencies and dance studios. Using the case study of the South Korean popular music boot camps offered by the Australia-based agency, The Academy, this article seeks to frame these performative engagements along more cosmopolitan notions
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Performing healthy ageing through images: From broadcasting to silence Global Media and China (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2020-11-27 Marília Duque
This article addresses the centrality of images in the definition of a new paradigm for ageing, when health (measured by autonomy) becomes a condition for freedom (associated with youth). Based on a 16-month ethnography conducted with older people (aged 50–80) in a middle-class district in São Paulo, Brazil, I found that smartphones empower older people to craft a health identity by engaging and producing
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Fragmented industrial structure and fragmented resistance in Korea’s digital game industry Global Media and China (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2020-06-13 Changwook Kim, Sangkyu Lee
This article is part of the special issue Creative Labor in East Asia. By exploring specific political, economic, and institutional conditions promoting actually existing precarity in Korean digita...
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Book Review: X Zhang, H Wasserman & W Mano (Eds.), China’s Media and Soft Power in Africa: Promotion and Perceptions and K Batchelor & X Zhang (Eds.), China-Africa Relations: Building Images Through Cultural Cooperation, Media Representation and Communication Global Media and China (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2020-05-11 Yuan Ping
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Introduction: Historicizing globalization—Popular musics in Asia and beyond Global Media and China (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Qian Zhang, Anthony Fung
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Bruce Lee as gladiator: Celebrity, vernacular stoicism and cinema Global Media and China (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2019-09-01 Lindsay Steenberg
This article situates Bruce Lee’s films and star persona in the context of wider patterns in global genre cinema of the 1960s and 1970s. I argue for a connection between the Western reception of Lee’s films and those of the mid-century Italian sword and sandal films, beginning with the Colosseum fight between Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris that concludes Way of the Dragon (1972). From the dojo fights of
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Game of text: Bruce Lee’s media legacies Global Media and China (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2019-09-01 Paul Bowman
This article situates Bruce Lee at the heart of the emergence of ‘martial arts’. It argues that the notion ‘martial arts’, as we now know it, is a discursive entity that emerged in the wake of media texts, and that the influence of Bruce Lee films of the early 1970s was both seminal and structuring of ‘martial arts’, in ways that continue to be felt. Using the media theory proposition that a limited
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Lessons of the dragon: Bruce Lee and perfectionism between East and West Global Media and China (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2019-09-01 Kyle Barrowman
This article endeavors to understand the work of Bruce Lee, particularly his appearance on the US television series Longstreet (1971–1972), with reference to the philosophical concept of perfectionism. Although in extant scholarship Lee has often been presented as an anti-Confucian figure, this article reexamines Lee’s Confucian connections vis-à-vis perfectionism. By virtue of an investigation into
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Nation-states, transnational corporations and cosmopolitans in the global popular music economy Global Media and China (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2019-08-13 Keith Negus
This article assesses changing debates about globalisation in light of the growth of digital media. It stresses how popular music is shaped by enduring tensions between nation-state attempts to control territorial borders, the power of transnational corporations aiming to operate across these borders and emergent cosmopolitan practices that offer a cultural challenge to these borders. It outlines how
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The role of city rankings in local public policy design: Urban competitiveness and economic press Global Media and China (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2019-06-01 Alberto Carrera Portugal
The objective of this research is to identify the factors that determine the capacity of city rankings published in the economic press—particularly The Economist Intelligence Unit and AméricaEconomía—to not only trigger social dialogue about the ratings different territories attain but also to enrich the public debate on the “competitive city model” and influence the design and implementation of local
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New perspectives on citizen journalism Global Media and China (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Xin Zeng, Savyasaachi Jain, An Nguyen, Stuart Allan
In the aftermath of the South Asian tsunami of 26 December 2004, the term ‘citizen journalism’ swiftly gained currency with global news organisations finding themselves in the difficult position of being largely dependent on ‘amateur’ photographs, video footage and eyewitness accounts to tell the story of what was transpiring on the ground in the most severely affected areas. Despite its ambiguities
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‘Shanghai is burning’: Extravaganza, transgender representation and transnational cinema Global Media and China (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2018-12-01 Hongwei Bao
This article offers a critical analysis of Matthew Baren’s 2018 film Extravaganza, a documentary about drag scenes in Shanghai. By focusing on some drag performers represented in this film, in tandem with an examination of the social and industry contexts of the film, as well as my interviews with the filmmaker and performers, I problematise the gender identity of the performers and the national identity
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The impact of monetization on the public functions of Weibo Global Media and China (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2018-09-01 Lize Zhang, Weiyu Zhang
Operating as a commercial business with public functions, Weibo’s pursuit of profits has to be balanced with the demands of citizen users. This article examines how the dynamics between increasing profits and preserving public interest manifests itself in Weibo’s monetization and how the dynamics impacts Weibo’s public functions. Drawn on evidence collected through participant observation and 19 in-depth
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Hegemonic media and inequality in Brazil Global Media and China (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2018-06-01 Raquel Paiva
In Brazil, the traditional media crisis coincides with the historical moment of weakening political liberalism and the transit of the rational idea of the people in favor of a still obscure mass of population, redefined and fixed by the expanded market. There is a general perception that the forms of representation or framing of the social–political field, dating to the 18th and 19th centuries, cease
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Book Review: Henry Jenkins, Mimi Ito and danah boyd, Participatory Culture in a Networked Era Global Media and China (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2018-03-01 Lei Wang
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When press freedom meets national interest: How terrorist attacks are framed in the news in China and the US Global Media and China (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2017-09-01 Ying Roselyn Du, Lulu Li
This cross-nation, multi-event study examined 142 news stories from CCTV and CNN on two major terrorist attacks in China and the United States. It aimed to unveil how press system and national interest come into play in influencing media coverage of terrorism. Framing analyses were conducted in terms of attitude toward local government and perpetrators, news origin and source, coverage theme, definition
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Interview with Professor John Ellis Global Media and China (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2017-06-01 John Ellis
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Casting an ‘Outsider’ in the ritual centre: Two decades of performances of ‘Rural Migrants’ in CCTV’s Spring Festival Gala Global Media and China (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2017-05-29 Yan Yuan
Recent years have seen the rise of the ‘processual approach’ in media ritual studies, which focuses on the making of media rituals through various ‘ritualised actions’ rather than assuming them as isolated events distinctive to ordinary broadcasting. This article advances this line of argument by shedding light on a previously less-discussed form of ritualised action: the ritualised casting. It examines