Participation and Control

Morlandstø, Lisbeth; Mathisen, Birgit Røe

doi:10.1080/21670811.2016.1195133

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“…Target readers have been empowered to influence the editorial agenda of the press on new media platforms by expressing their preferences and thoughts using interactive functions, such as the like and share button (Morlandstø & Mathisen, 2017). Therefore, the audience's needs and preferences must be considered if an outlet wants to succeed in the battlefield of social media.…”

Section: Young and Highly Educated Readersmentioning

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Presenting China’s image through the translation of comments: a case study of the WeChat subscription account of Reference News

Zeng

2021

Perspectives

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Facing the challenges and opportunities brought by the launch of the WeChat subscription account in 2012, Reference News (hereafter RN), a Chinese official news agency publishing selected translated foreign news, has responded quickly, becoming one of the most successful WeChat accounts. Among the various contents produced by RN's WeChat account, there is a type of news report that quotes social media comments posted by foreign netizens on China-related topics. This study investigates the translation of those comments. Using a dataset containing news articles quoting translated comments published between 1 August 2019 and 31 July 2020, we analysed the selection of news topics and comments and investigated the translated comments by drawing on appraisal theory (Martin & White, 2005) and framing strategies (Baker, 2006). It was found that RN tends to cover more soft news and quotes positive comments towards China. These selected comments were then rendered and reframed to play up the pro-China stance in the original and presented to the readers with screenshots of their source texts. In a highly marketized, digitalised, and competitive social media context, these strategies have facilitated RN's efforts to represent China's positive global image among foreign netizens to their WeChat account followers.

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Section: Young and Highly Educated Readersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Presenting China’s image through the translation of comments: a case study of the WeChat subscription account of Reference News

Zeng

2021

Perspectives

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“…The media are also keen to encourage readers to visit their debate sites. The democratic value of a more diverse public debate has emerged (Morlandstø and Mathisen, 2017). Media companies -and advertisers -are also increasingly interested in stimulating audience engagement, as this is indeed a way to increase profits.…”

Section: Audience: Empowered To Participate In Public Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

How has Storytelling in Contemporary Journalism been Impacted by Digital Technology?

2022

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As one of the most significant parts of journalism, storytelling has inevitably been affected by technological advances in digitaltechnology. This paper discusses the impact of digital technology on journalism in terms of content, channels, specialist media outlets and audiences. The analysis shows that digital technology has indeed expanded the scope of storytelling content, that new and updated technologies threaten traditional narratives, and that it has empowered ordinary users to create. But it has also resulted in the prevalence of fake news and challenges to journalistic professionalism, with the entire framework of storytelling in journalism remaining in the hands of authoritative bodies.

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“…In the new social mediaenabled public sphere, the heterogeneous publics interact and participate in the debate. They also impact on the editorial agenda through likes and shares (Morlandstø & Mathisen, 2017).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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“…Digital technology creates new public spheres where the audience can interact, intervene and participate. Audiences are empowered to impact on the editorial agenda through likes and shares (Morlandstø & Mathisen, 2017). As spatial metaphors such as networks, fields, or spheres indicate, the lines between professional and citizen, and between one organization and another have blurred (Reese, 2016).…”

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Mediatization of conflict in the social media era: A case study of Sino-Indian border crisis in 2017

Zhang

2019

Journalism

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Inspired by the concepts of Arrested War and actor–network theory, this study has traced and analyzed four main actors in the wars and conflicts in the social media age: social media platform, the mainstream news organizations, online users, and social media content. These four human and nonhuman actors associate, interact, and negotiate with each other in the social media network surrounding specific issues. Based on the case study of Sino-Indian border crisis in 2017, the central argument is that social media is playing an enabling role in contemporary wars and conflicts. Both professional media outlets and web users employ the functionalities of social media platforms to set, counter-set, or expand the public agenda. Social media platform embodies a web of technological and human complexities with different actors, factors, interests, and relations. These actor-networks and the macro social-political context are influential in the mediatization of conflict in the social media era.

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Participation and Control

Cited by 14 publications

References 24 publications

Presenting China’s image through the translation of comments: a case study of the WeChat subscription account of Reference News

Presenting China’s image through the translation of comments: a case study of the WeChat subscription account of Reference News

How has Storytelling in Contemporary Journalism been Impacted by Digital Technology?

Mediatization of conflict in the social media era: A case study of Sino-Indian border crisis in 2017

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