COVID-19 news reporting and engaging in the age of social media: Comparing <i>Xinhua News Agency</i> and <i>The Paper</i>

Chen, Zenan; Xu, Xiaoge

doi:10.1177/20594364211017364

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“…Finally, our assumption checks in Study 2 regarding media pervasiveness and tone indicate that for Chinese consumers, media are both more pervasive and more positive compared with U.S. consumers’ perceptions of their media. Thus, we validate prior research on the role of Chinese media ( Chen and Xu 2021 ; Zhang 2014 ; Zhao et al 2020 ) as well as our own assumptions that Chinese media narratives are likely to be more positive and pervasive due to their role as the Party's mouthpiece. While this is more of a minor contribution, the findings nevertheless indicate that consumers in China and the United States encounter differences in their respective media, which helps explain observed differences in downstream effects.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 82%

“…However, these discussions are still monitored and sometimes censored ( Feng and Yuan 2014 ; Nip and Fu 2016 ). Thus, although social media offers more freedom and greater power to word of mouth in communication and is considered market-oriented, the Chinese government has been successful in keeping social media within its “orbit” ( Zhao 2000 ), such that it does not deviate much from the general parameters set by the government ( Chen and Xu 2021 ).…”

Section: Literature Review and Research Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Differences in these governmental and societal roles between China and the United States have led to differences in their respective media environments. Research suggests that during the COVID-19 pandemic, Chinese legacy media have focused on setting positive tones to instill confidence and quell public fears, in line with the government's priority of social harmony and political stability ( Chen and Xu 2021 ). Although social media has some leeway in catering to the needs of its audiences, it still needs to operate within the Party's “orbit” and present a united front with legacy media in guiding public discourse toward political stability during the pandemic.…”

Section: Literature Review and Research Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This causes people to become more susceptible to misinformation and to overestimate the negative consequences of the crisis ( Ji and Kim 2020 ). In contrast, the significant, negative serial mediation effect of social media information seeking for Chinese consumers suggests that during national crises, Chinese media's content and messaging align with the government's priority of political stability through maintaining a positive and assertive tone to instill confidence and allay fears ( Chen and Xu 2021 ; Zhao et al 2020 ).…”

Section: Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Roles of Legacy Versus Social Media Information Seeking in American and Chinese Consumers’ Hoarding During COVID-19

Sheng¹,

Ketron²

2022

Journal of International Marketing

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Through two studies conducted with cross-cultural samples (the US and China), this research examines the psychological mechanism of consumer hoarding during COVID-19. Findings from Study 1 suggest that consumer hoarding is affected by legacy and social media information seeking, perceived scarcity, and scarcity attributions differently in the US vs. China. For China, while social media information seeking has a negative downstream relationship to hoarding, legacy media information seeking has a positive relationship with hoarding. In the US, only social media information seeking has a positive relationship with hoarding. Further, these effects are significant when consumers attribute the scarcity responsibility to insufficient supply but not high demand. Study 2 shows that when the cause of scarcity is stated directly, perceived scarcity increases hoarding intention for Chinese consumers when the scarcity cause is due to supply but not demand, whereas US consumers’ hoarding intention does not vary with the scarcity cause. The findings underscore cross-cultural differences in how legacy and social media information seeking influence consumer hoarding and highlight implications for situations in which hoarding is likely.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 82%

Section: Literature Review and Research Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Literature Review and Research Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Studymentioning

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The Roles of Legacy Versus Social Media Information Seeking in American and Chinese Consumers’ Hoarding During COVID-19

Sheng¹,

Ketron²

2022

Journal of International Marketing

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“…The strict regulations on traditional media along with the top-down ideological discourse initiatives make political coverages on central government mostly positive. For example, content analyses of traditional Chinese media coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic have revealed a general positive portrayal of the party’s leadership and the benevolence of the central government (Chan & Fung, 2021; Chen & Xu, 2021). Exposure to such content should contribute to higher levels of political trust, especially at the central government level, because the central government controls propaganda.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring the effects of traditional media, social media, and foreign media on hierarchical levels of political trust in China

Zhang

2022

Global Media and China

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Although there is a consensus that mass media play an important role in the rise and fall of political trust in Western democracies, existing research on media use and political trust in China achieved relatively inconclusive findings. By using two surveys conducted in China in 2013 and 2018, we examine the effects of media use, including traditional media, social media, and foreign media, on Chinese citizens’ trust in their central and local governments. Our research shows that traditional media usage such as watching TV and reading newspapers is positively associated with citizens’ trust in the central government but is not related to their trust in local governments. Social media usage is negatively associated with trust in local governments but not with trust in the central government. Using VPNs to access foreign media is negatively associated with Chinese citizens’ trust in the central government but does not affect their trust in local governments. We explain why different types of media have such contrasting effects on political trust in central versus local Chinese governments and discuss the theoretical and empirical implications of these findings.

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The media's coverage and framing of hospital reforms: The case of Germany

Berger,

Eriksen,

Wiedicke

et al. 2024

J Public Health (Berl.)

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Aim In Germany, a long-lasting debate about the need for a hospital reform, including centralisation, now resulted in reform plans. As cutbacks to essential services such as hospitals are an emotional topic, the public should be properly informed, which is a central role of the media. Based on a media analysis of a large-scale hospital reform in Denmark, showing that the media’s reporting might have had an agenda-setting effect, we analysed the media’s coverage and framing of restructuring the hospital landscape in German newspapers. Subject and methods A systematic search identified relevant articles in national and regional newspapers. The coverage between January 2018 and January 2023 was analysed regarding quantity and main theme (agenda-setting). Each article’s title and main text were analysed for tone and whether it focused on episodic (single events) or thematic (broader context) framing. Results A total of 705 newspaper articles (592 regional, 113 national) were included. Both regional and national newspapers mainly used episodic framing. Regional newspapers mostly reported on single closures of hospitals or departments. The tone of the title and main text in national newspapers was mainly negatively depicted, which applied to less than half of the articles in regional newspapers. These differences were, however, not statistically significant. Conclusion Results indicate higher agenda-setting effects in regional compared to national newspapers. However, the overall high amount of episodic framing can result in less attribution of responsibility to policy-makers, thereby conserving the status quo. To succeed, a media strategy might help to raise problem awareness among the public.

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COVID-19 news reporting and engaging in the age of social media: Comparing Xinhua News Agency and The Paper

Cited by 13 publications

References 49 publications

The Roles of Legacy Versus Social Media Information Seeking in American and Chinese Consumers’ Hoarding During COVID-19

The Roles of Legacy Versus Social Media Information Seeking in American and Chinese Consumers’ Hoarding During COVID-19

Exploring the effects of traditional media, social media, and foreign media on hierarchical levels of political trust in China

The media's coverage and framing of hospital reforms: The case of Germany

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