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  • Feeling the catastrophe: the interplay between emotional story-telling and journalistic authority in the televisual construction of natural disasters

    • Authors: Chiaoning Su (2020)

  • Natural disasters not only create physical damage but also disrupt social norms. Studying disasters and their media representations thus reveals how a society establishes and maintains its political structure and cultural values. Focusing on Typhoon Morakot, Taiwan’s deadliest typhoon on record, this study employs a ritual view of communication to examine its first week of television coverage. The study found that a variety of televisual practices, such as the interruption of commercials, live reporting, visualization of emotions, and cinematic vignettes, have been used to symbolically repair a shaken society. This case study adds to the literature of disaster journalism as it improves...
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  • From perpetual foreigner to national hero: a narrative analysis of US and Taiwanese news coverage of Linsanity

    • Authors: Chiaoning Su (2014)

  • Linsanity was the buzzword of 2012 even for those who did not follow sports news. The term was coined when Jeremy Lin, an undrafted player in the National Basketball Association (NBA), seemingly came from nowhere to resuscitate the New York Knicks following a disappointing season start. Yet, Linsanity signifies a more complex phenomenon than sudden fame. As the first Taiwanese-American in the NBA, Jeremy Lin’s racial background made him an anomaly on the American basketball court and a hero to Taiwanese. Media portrayal of Linsanity in the US and Taiwanese contexts thus provides a rich and unique case that enables analysis of mediated constructions of ethnicity, nationalism, and iden...