This study explicates and examines a hypothesized discrepancy in public perceptions of the normative roles of journalists and evaluations of journalists’ actual performance. We argue that journalistic functions and public perceptions are mutually constituted, a point that has been largely ignored in existing journalism studies literature. We theoretically connect the expectation-evaluation gap with the public assessment of media credibility in a model that involves the moderation effect by depth of news engagement. Contextualized in Hong Kong during the COVID-19 period, the study conducted a random sample survey of 603 residents. Results of data analyses supported all our hypotheses: (1) a salient expectation-evaluation gap exists; (2) the wider the gap, the lower the media credibility ratings; (3) cognitive engagement in news consumption is an important condition in the process. Findings mark an epistemological break from the traditional one-way approach in journalism studies, and could potentially inform the journalist-audience literature, public policy and the media industry.

This study aims to investigate how media from China and the United States construct the ongoing technological conflicts between the two countries. While concerns and disagreements over technological development are primarily political, their interpretations are cultural and ideological. Conceptually, we merge literature from international relations, social psychology, and media studies into a full model centered on the concept of "de-otherness." Empirically, we carried out a depth qualitative text analysis of two mainstream newspapers: The New York Times in the United States and China Daily in China. Results show that the narrative construction in the media of both countries is strikingly political, a position tactfully concealed by opinion writers who try to divert attention toward moral and social progress aspects of technology. With a host of frames ranging from threat to theft, the mutual de-otherness reflects a shift of discursive emphasis on global technological development to exclusive de-globalization.

Digital emotional contagion shapes how emotions spread and align among participants in the online community. This phenomenon is especially evident in the real-time interactions of tourism live streaming. However, little is known about how emotional contagion unfolds during these real-time interactions. Given that, this study seeks to examine the generative mechanisms of emotional contagion in tourism live streaming. Study One used dynamic time warping and panel vector autoregression to analyze the contagion process across 105 tourism live streaming sessions. Study Two applied BERTopic modeling to identify emotionally contagious topics engaging streamers and viewers. The findings deepen the theoretical understanding of digital emotional contagion by highlighting its interactivity, multi-directionality, and synchronicity. It also reveals the complex interplay between positive and negative emotional contagion and contagious topics. These insights help digital marketers understand the direction and characteristics of emotional contagions, and effectively foster viewers' emotional engagement for community building and loyalty.

This paper employs an Internet of Things (IoT) automatic control scheme to achieve unmanned maintenance of vegetation on high slopes. Through timed irrigation and interval-based irrigation control methods, the irrigated area becomes an optimal environment for plant growth. The entire system can c

This study examines the transforming power of aggregation in a traditional newsroom based on the practice theory approach. Through ethnographic observations of aggregated news production in action in a local legacy press, we were able to detect various symbolic and material sources of institutional change attributable to aggregation. Some of our findings confirmed the prescriptions of practice theory; some extended it; and some partially negated the existing model due largely to the lack of a goodness-of-fit between the Western theory and the unique Chinese media ecology. We found that a new news order has emerged at the expense of professional quality of journalism, causing massive depletions of resources traditionally reserved for news beats, background research, maintaining the network of news contacts, and depth investigation. As a concrete practice of the highly politicized campaign for media convergence in China, aggregation is re-defining news making, practitioner identity and the cultural authority of journalism. Theoretical implications of this research are discussed.

"Un-news" is a Chinese newsroom jargon that refers to the process as well as the product of aggregation. It encapsulates clashes between digital and legacy journalism, challenges posed by and responses to technologies in the media industry. It differs from aggregation news elsewhere because of dynamic media environment in China. This ethnographic study closely analyzes manifestations of "un-news" churned out by digital aggregators who have to work under management of legacy print journalists and editors in a local Chinese press. The hierarchy of influences model is used to decompose the meanings and complexities of "un-news." Fieldwork observations have confirmed our expectations that the hierarchy model remains structurally valid, although the content and meaning of influence have changed drastically within each level.

This chapter investigates the problem of classroom-newsroom disjunction from the neo-institutionalist point of view. This chapter dissects the sources of disjunction into their ontological and epistemological components, which subsume three disjunctions: The normative vs. the actual; change vs. status quo; and major vs. minor in curriculum. In the process, the role digital technology plays across the three dimensions is closely examined. In-depth interviews of in-school journalism undergraduate students and journalism faculty with extensive industry experiences revealed that while practically all interviewees acknowledge the existence of the three disjunctions, opinions differ concerning the sources of the problem and its potential solutions. Most, however, agree that digital technology holds the potential to bridge the gap.

This research integrates construal level theory with news production strategies by exploring the joint effects of distance and editorial commitment on news narratives. In content analyzing the coverage of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) by four newspapers in China and West, we investigate determinants of choice of principled or personalized accounts in storytelling. The findings showed that editorial commitment was low and power reliance high when the site of event was far away, leading to the use of higher construals in Western news texts than in Chinese newspapers. This study contributes to the unexplored relationship between news production and construal level theory.

In the context of the current global Internet, the “One Belt One Road” strategy is currently the highest top-level strategy in my country. It is highly valued at home and abroad, and it is also a new round of comprehensive opening up in China. Conducting research on cross-cultural communication in my country’s local universities under the background of the “One Belt and One Road” has great theoretical value for promoting the influence spread of China’s local universities’ cross-cultural communication under the strategic background of this new era and the development of “Belt and Road” cooperation priorities. The purpose of this article is to study the influence of the “Belt and Road” on the cross-cultural communication of local colleges and universities in the context of the Internet. This article analyzes the related concepts of cross-cultural communicative competence, and introduces the related theoretical basis of competence training. Then, based on the analysis of local colleges and universities, a reasonable questionnaire of cross-cultural communicative competence was formulated for a local college to investigate, and it pointed out the main problems in the intercultural communicative competence of local college students. Finally, it analyzes the characteristics of international students’ cross-cultural communication and their influencing factors, and uses this as a basis to formulate effective suggestions for the enrollment, teaching and management of Chinese students. Research shows that “for better employment opportunities” accounted for 41.7%, ranking first, and still the main motivation for students to study in China. Interviews revealed that the reason is that after intercultural communication, students have gradually adapted to the way of life and learning in China, and their Chinese level has also been fully improved.

This article reports a case study on how government-sponsored native advertising influences everyday practices of journalism and journalists' role identification in China. The process is the result of the state attempt to centralize control in response to digitalization that is, changing the press landscape. Building on social identity theory, we undertook an ethnographic fieldwork in a local party newspaper to observe how news organization and journalists make sense of the changes. Analyses show that, in addition to gains in material resources, the politics of native advertising also symbolizes new salient values for journalists whose professional identity swings between idealism and realism. The complexity of the phenomena under study reveals a plurality of meanings of the interplay among native advertising, journalistic routines, and the ever-shifting state-media relationship in China.

This study investigates the impact of social media on journalistic identity presentation in China. We empirically link micro conceptions of journalists and macro changes in media ecology through ethnographic observations of daily routines in a party press. Specifically, our scrutiny of Chinese journalists' use of WeChat Moments, an equivalent of Twitter, uncovered patterns showing that media organizations' increasing dependence on state subsidies has resulted in the decline of professional ideals and forced journalists to gravitate to utilitarian values in their professional and commercial pursuits. The resulting precarity of malleable multiplicity identity creates tensions between self-branding and propaganda goals. Findings point to a change in the direction of Chinese journalism toward an increasing yielding to the influence of new media technology and the tightened grip of ideological control. This study enriches existing discussions on multiplicity of social media and liquid identities in information industry.

This article reports on research into the relations between reporters and sources in a Chinese newspaper in a transitional period brought about by the diffusion of smartphones and instant messaging. The article adopts the theoretical framework of political economy, supplemented by elements of the classic sociology of journalism that emphasize the routinized nature of journalist-source relationships. It argues that in the newspaper studied here the nature of that relationship is changing. The article reports on the ways in which technological changes have weakened the link between the reporter and her colleagues in the newsroom, which has been an important source of countervailing pressure to the influence of sources. It also shows how the economic effects of new technologies have forced the newspaper to increase its reliance on paid content and how reporters are expected aggressively to solicit this from their sources. Overall, both the reporters and the newspaper have become much more source-dependent than previously. The article closes with a discussion of how far these findings can be generalized, both within China and more broadly.

New communication technologies have reshaped traditional news dissemination mechanisms. Currently, with micro-communication gradually becoming the mainstream form of communication, it is necessary to establish a newspaper micro-communication capability evaluation system to meet the needs of media convergence. An analysis of currently existing problems with newspapers' micro-communication capabilities is based on an evaluation of its current micro-communication capabilities. This can provide rational suggestions for enhancing newspapers' micro-communication capabilities and achieve effective results.

Chinese newspapers are beginning to feel the effects of digital media both on their circulations and advertising revenues. In contrast to the west, where newspaper circulation has been problematic for some years, this represents a new situation since they have enjoyed 25 years during which both circulation and advertising grew very rapidly. The response of Chinese newspapers has some similarities with that experienced in the West, and notably the United States, but it also has major differences. Newspapers elsewhere have responded to the situation primarily as economic units, but in China, the political dimension has had a central role. The article reviews the comparative impact of the crisis and gives an overview of the Chinese response in terms of cost cutting, raising new revenues and changing journalistic practices. Alongside the technological and economic factors, it notes that the Xi leadership has taken a much more interventionist stance on editorial content and that this has further constrained newspapers’ possible responses. It concludes by considering some of the implications of the changed situation and the ways in which newspapers have responded to it.

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