Framing and Ideology: A Comparative Analysis of U.S. and Chinese Newspaper Coverage of the Fourth United Nations Conference on Women an the NGO Forum

A contrastive study on the representation of “Made in China” in Chinese and U.S. newspapers

“…The Chinese media and journalists are regarded as instrumental to helping government maintain political stability and build a harmonious society (Beaudoin, 2007;Feng et al, 2012). With the commercialization of the media in China, there is a loosening grip of government control and more space for journalistic engagement (Akhavan-Majid and Ramaprasad, 1998;Gleiss, 2016). Party ideology is now expressed through the marketized media, which makes its profits by fulfilling political functions (Liu and Yao, 2015).…”

“…Geography is an important influential factor, as the media reports focused on the countries where they are produced sometimes apply different evaluative criteria when dealing with same issues in other geographical locations. Their coverage of foreign countries contains more value judgments (Gans, 1979), and international news coverage often reflects capitalist and anticommunist values (Akhavan-Majid and Ramaprasad, 1998;Wu, 2006;Zeng et al, 2015). Zhang and Wu (2017) summarized the dynamic image of China in the Western media from the eighteenth century.…”

China’s environmental pollution crisis: A comparative analysis of newspaper coverage of the Songhua River Spill

“…4 As a typical representative of Western media, U.S. media are supposed to play the roles of the 'fourth estate', carefully watching state actors, publicizing instances where politicians abuse their power, and offering the information conducive to critical citizenship (Jacobs and Townsley, 2011;Schultz, 1998). Globally, U.S. journalists see their roles as promoting press freedom or open communication as well as aiding the cause of democracy movement worldwide, particularly by covering protest movements against political authoritarianism and maintaining a skeptical attitude toward the initiatives of authoritarian governments (Akhavan-Majid and Ramaprasad, 1998;Luther and Zhou, 2005;Wu, 2006).…”

“…Drawing upon previous work that also used a large body of news reporting to examine public discourse (Benson and Saguy, 2005;Jacobs and Townsley, 2011;Smith and Howe, 2015), I adopted similar strategies of textual analysis that highlighted narrative features of employment, temporality, indeterminacy of meaning (Polletta, 1998). 5 The tactics included close reading of newspaper articles repeatedly, identifying the recurring patterns, compiling long-term data to track the discursive development and possible shifts over time. I took extensive notes, created analytic memos about how emerging themes and concrete events were discussed, refined memos by revisiting all relevant newspaper articles, and finalized memos to be incorporated into this manuscript.…”

Straddling the Wall: Comparative Framing of Trump’s Border Wall in U.S. & Mexican Newspapers

“…Previous research has investigated these transnational issues by comparing the news content from two or more countries. Issues such as environmental concerns (Duan & Takahashi, 2017;Liobikienė et al, 2017;Olive & Delshad, 2017), nuclear weapons (Jang, 2013), climate change (Konieczna et al, 2014;Lück et al, 2018;Shehata & Hopmann, 2012), migration/immigration (Cooper et al, 2021;Di Renzo, 2017;Lawlor, 2015), war and conflict (Camaj, 2010;Pantti, 2013;Zhang & Hellmueller, 2017), social justice (Akhavan-Majid & Ramaprasad, 1998;Elena, 2016;Harlow & Johnson, 2011), and the economy (Kaiser & Kleinenvon Königslöw, 2017) have been studied.…”