A Change of Lens: A Call to Compare the Media in China and Russia

Meng, Bingchun; Rantanen, Terhi

doi:10.1080/15295036.2014.997831

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“…For CGTN, the 2015 Tianjin blasts presented challenges in giving a voice to those affected while adhering to the 'correct political direction'. Economic reforms over the past 40 years have driven commercialisation of China's media system, which today is influenced both by the party-state and the market system (Meng & Rantanen, 2015). CGTN's global outreach means it has the additional responsibility of maintaining credibility in the eyes of its international audiences while satisfying government's demands and Chinese viewers' expectations at home.…”

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The dichotomy of China Global Television Network’s news coverage

Fearon

Rodrigues

2019

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Although much is made of the universalisation of ‘US-style’ journalism around the world and Chinese journalists’ shared professional values with counterparts in liberal-democratic countries (Zhang, 2009), the effect of these trends on journalism in China is yet to be fully explored. Using the 2015 Tianjin blasts as a case study, this article investigates China Global Television Network (CGTN) and CNN International’s coverage of the disaster. The empirical study finds that despite their overlapping news values, the two networks’ opposing ideological objectives contributed to different framings of the Tianjin blasts. Although CGTN, as a symbol of Chinese media’s presence on the world stage, has clearly travelled far from its past era of party-line journalism, it still hesitates to apportion responsibility to those in power. The authors argue that CGTN is increasingly torn by its dichotomous role as a credible media competing for audience attention on the world stage, and a vital government propaganda organ domestically.

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The dichotomy of China Global Television Network’s news coverage

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Rodrigues

2019

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“…To avoid measuring non‐Western societies using a Western yardstick (Meng & Rantanen, ), we deliberately moved back and forth between Shanghai and London examples of outdoor advertising. We were interested in similarities and differences identified by genuine comparison, rather than provision of a Eurocentric “first in Europe, then elsewhere” type analysis (Chakrabarty, , p. 7).…”

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The Maternal in the City: Outdoor Advertising Representations in Shanghai and London

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Meng

2017

Communication, Culture & Critique

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This article examines representations of mothers in Shanghai and London outdoor advertising. We treat their display of motherhood as a regulatory space where ideas about the maternal and fantasies of the “good life” under neoliberal rationality are formulated and normalized. Situating Shanghai and London outdoor advertisements within their respective media cultures, we identify two common themes: (a) mothers as self‐responsible individuals managing the family, and (b) public display of maternity and intimate family life. We discuss similarities and differences in depictions of motherhood and the purportedly normative ideas about the “good life” they suggest. We argue that outdoor advertising acts as a visual disciplinary space regulating fantasies of the “good life” that millions of city dwellers consume, but rarely realize.

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“…What goes hand in hand with methodological nationalism in communication research is a systemic view of the media. Media systems are equated with nation‐states in terms of their histories, territories, languages, and cultures, even though most nation‐states consist of people with differing cultural backgrounds and dialects or languages (Meng & Rantanen, ). Secondly, to conceptualize the media as a national system is to adopt a container model that presumes an equal distribution of resources inside a national boundary.…”

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“…We want particularly to emphasize their historicity and their contested nature. We have previously criticized comparative research that tackles only the present, the chosen frozen moment (Meng & Rantanen, ). Here we propose to draw comparisons by referring not only to different spaces, but also to different times, so as to better capture processes of contestation and change.…”

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“…From Four Theories of the Press to Comparing Media Systems , the comparison of different media systems and journalistic practices has often presupposed a normative goal of liberal democracy. That is to say, institutional and professional norms in Western liberal‐democratic countries are usually the yardstick against which media arrangements in other countries are measured (Nerone, ; Meng & Rantanen, ).…”

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The Worlding of St. Petersburg and Shanghai: Comparing Cultures of Communication in Two Cities Before and After Revolutions

Meng

Rantanen

2015

Communication, Culture & Critique

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In this article we propose an alternative model for comparative communication research. We first make the case for comparing cities, especially worlding cities outside what is traditionally called the "West." We then explicate what we mean by comparing cultures of communication and why this offers an opportunity to reevaluate methodological nationalism and the cultural dynamics of worlding. We go on to use Shanghai and St. Petersburg as two historical examples to demonstrate how worlding cities (a) compel us to see cultural hybridization as a historical process; (b) offer good opportunities to observe contested elements of cultures; (c) make it possible to analyze cities as texts that are always connected with, but not necessarily contained by the nation.

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A Change of Lens: A Call to Compare the Media in China and Russia

Abstract: Original citation:Meng, Bingchun and Rantanen, Terhi (2015) A change of lens: a call to compare media in China and Russia.

Cited by 17 publications

References 36 publications

The dichotomy of China Global Television Network’s news coverage

The dichotomy of China Global Television Network’s news coverage

The Maternal in the City: Outdoor Advertising Representations in Shanghai and London

The Worlding of St. Petersburg and Shanghai: Comparing Cultures of Communication in Two Cities Before and After Revolutions

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