This study assessed the media visibility, a composite measure of attention and prominence, of China's President Xi Jinping's first 3-year governance in The New York Times. The assessment was based on the content analysis of 317 news articles focusing on Chinese President. Qualitative content analysis was used to identify three major frames, 12 mid-level frames, and 18 subframes. Quantitative content analysis was used to measure the attention, prominence, and the combination of these two parameters of these frames. The findings showed that The New York Times employed multiple frames to report Chinese President, and the two frames with the highest media visibility are (Domestic) Campaigns and Strategies and China-United States (relations), rather than Human Rights. Keywords Attention, Chinese President, governance, media visibility, prominenceWith the rapid economic growth, China has become the second largest economy in the world and exerted increasing influence on global affairs. Several studies showed that Western media paid more attention on China and employed a much broader range of frames to report China than before (e.g.

Applying the grounded theory approach, this study identified three major themes-business, soft power, and whitewashing-in the US media coverage of "The Great Wall" film, which is the biggest co-production between Hollywood and China in history. It also discussed the interconnections among the three themes and the implications of these interconnections. The connection between business and soft power revealed China's strategy of enhancing its soft power through business collaborations with Hollywood. The connections between whitewashing and business, and between whitewashing and soft power, suggested the dialectical dynamics among them. This complex dynamics would influence the soft power of both China and the United States.

Abstract.With the popularization and development of the Internet and the extensive use of electronic products, Self-media has become an important part of people's lives, profoundly affecting people's way of life and communication. And the current higher vocational students are influenced by the most profound influence from Self-media, which is bound to the current ideological and political education of the students cannot be ignored, and even impact. Based on the analysis of higher vocational students, this paper expounds the positive and negative influence of We-media popularization on these students' ideological and political education, and explores the countermeasures and methods to enhance the effectiveness of ideological and political education in higher vocational colleges.With the development of Internet technology, micro-blog, We chat, QQ and other information technology has been very widely used. These Self-media have become the important communication methods of the students in higher vocational colleges, and also have a great influence on the current ideological and political education. Therefore, this paper will first analyze the basic characteristics of the media, on the basis of revealing the positive influence from the media for ideological and political education and the negative effect of dialectical analysis of its advantages and disadvantages, and then according to these negative effects and puts forward some countermeasures and suggestions. It is expected that this paper will provide the inspiration for the relevant higher vocational colleges to carry out the ideological and political education of students in the background of the media age. Analysis of Basic Characteristics of Self-mediaAs a new type of communication, Self-media has many new features that are not existed in the traditional communication channels. Some of the main includes the following aspects.Participation in the Autonomy. From the background of the media technology, everyone can become the information provider. Higher vocational students can also through the mobile phone, Internet and other forms, to participate in the information acquisition and transmission process. That means Self-media is convenient for higher vocational students to access information, no longer rely on schools and parents information, many higher vocational students to obtain information even far more than the parents and teachers, and the content of information is difficult to fully grasp by educators. Autonomy is one of the important characteristics of Self-media. In addition, in Self-media environment, his participation of the main body is equal, it can be both the recipient and disseminator of information, and accessed the same information, which may also have the same negative impact. The traditional information channels haven't this equality.Complexity of Information. Self-media is carrying the complicated information, and it is very rich and varied video, web pages, pictures, sounds, etc., all kinds of information can be spread through Self-med...

This study applied a concept originated from economics, representative agent, to build the connection between the diffusion of innovations theory (DIT) and the technology acceptance model (TAM). A new model was proposed based on this notion. This model lays the foundation for the investigation of the correlations between socioeconomic variables and innovation diffusion variables. The empirical study investigated the relationships between socioeconomic variables and fixed broadband and mobile broadband diffusion variables in the countries of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

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