How Do Chinese Media Frame Arab Uprisings: A Content Analysis

Media and Communication

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Shiming Hu¹  Weipeng Hou¹  Jinghong Xu¹ 

[1] School of Journalism and communication, Beijing Normal University

关键词: Arab uprisings;    Chinese media;    content analysis;    news framing;   

DOI  :  10.17645/mac.v9i4.4466

学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Cogitatio Press

【 摘 要 】

Employing content analysis, this study compares the coverage of the Arab uprisings by the People’s Daily (the official news‐paper of the Communist Party of China) and Caixin Net (a typical commercial media) with statements from the ChineseForeign Ministry in the last decade. It shows that the overall attention given to Arab uprisings in the People’s Daily andCaixin Net declined during the period, but there were shifts in the framing of the conflicts, presentation of issues, and posi‐tions. The article demonstrates and analyses how the approach and outline of the conflicts in the People’s Daily changedfrom disaster to criticism, and then to comparison—its position towards the events generally negative—and how CaixinNet moved from a disaster to a contextual framing of the events, its position tending to be neutral.

【 授权许可】

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