New Delhi faces severe air pollution and is projected to become the world’s most populous city by 2030, and, as a result, public discussion of smog has intensified on X. This study analysed more than 100,000 X posts to examine public perceptions of the causes, solutions and effects of air pollution. Framing analysis revealed notable differences between citizen discourse and mainstream media narratives. Users most often blamed crop stubble burning and holiday fireworks rather than vehicles or industrial emissions. Suggested solutions emphasized stronger environmental enforcement and green initiatives. The impact of air pollution on public life and the economy, including lost wages and missed school days, was discussed more frequently than its direct effects on public health.
Since the official launch of the ‘culture going out’ strategy in the 2000s, scholarship has largely examined China’s cultural globalisation as a state-led project. However, from the late 2010s, a second wave—known as chuhai (‘going into the sea’)—has emerged, marked by changing political and economic contexts, new participants and different forms of cultural exports. This article examines the key characteristics of this phase, highlighting the growing roles of digital platforms, entertainment products and grass-roots cultural disseminators. It argues that these developments reshape China’s cultural globalisation and offer a more nuanced understanding of the state’s evolving soft power strategy.
A reflective overview of Cees Hamelink’s contribution to global communication is presented in this article. The discussion highlights his contributions to the field through his main concepts, theoretical advances and viewpoints. In various ways, his intellectual work, as the discussion will advance, expresses his enduring commitment and advocacy for a more human-centred global communication regime. The discussion contends that despite the well-documented historical inequities that have frequently characterized advances in the field, Hamelink’s work merits more inspection and appreciation if the ideal of an egalitarian and humanistic regime of global communication is to be realized.
Climate change and nationalism have traditionally been viewed as opposing forces because nationalism is often territorially bounded, while climate change transcends borders. This study examines the intersection of climate reporting and three forms of nationalism – that is, economic, resource and green nationalism – in India by analysing the coverage of Conference of the Parties (COP) summits in The Hindu and The Times of India before and after the Narendra Modi government’s rise in 2014. The findings show a shift from economic nationalism to green nationalism during the Modi regime, supported by the frames of leadership, sustainability and cultural superiority. Simultaneously, resource nationalism remained strong, highlighting the tensions emerging out of development priorities and climate action.
