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  • A content analysis of research on China in top-ranked communication journals from 1995 to 2014: a comparison with other Asian countries

    • Authors: Xun (Sunny) Liu; Xuan Liang; Pei Zheng (2016)

  • Scholars have recently turned their attention to China with its rapidly growing economic power. This present study analyzes and compares communication research on China in 14 top-ranked journals over the past 20 years. Our analysis reveals patterns, trends, and gaps in communication research on China during this period. The results indicate that China has received more scholarly attention with publication numbers increasing from 4 articles in 1995 to 13 articles in 2014. China is the most-researched East Asian country. Its research article numbers are twice that of the second-most-researched country, South Korea. China’s political system was the most-used rationale in the research art...
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  • First and second-level agenda-setting in the 2014 Indian general election: a time-series analysis of party-media relation

    • Authors: Hans-Christian Baumann; Pei Zheng; Maxwell McCombs (2018)

  • The role of the press as a political watchdog is crucial to the functioning of democracy. Especially in the run-up to elections, voters depend on the media’s presentation of parties and candidates to make informed, responsible choices at the ballot box. But who, then, influences the news media? Empirical evidence in the United States and Europe suggests that political party campaigns and election coverage in the news media are interconnected and influence each other. This study tests whether such agenda-setting effects between party campaigns and the media also take place in the general elections in the world’s largest democracy, India. India’s western-type political system has a dis...
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  • Mapping the field of communication technology research in Asia: content analysis and text mining of SSCI journal articles 1995–2014

    • Authors: Pei Zheng; Xuan Liang; Guanxiong Huang; Xun Liu (2016)

  • Given the critical role of communication technologies in Asia’s robust economic, cultural, and technological performance in the current century, this study maps the landscape of communication technology research in Asia of the recent two decades. Using a combination of content analysis and text mining-based semantic network analysis, this paper reviews 272 articles on Asian communication technology published in SSCI communication journals between 1995 and 2014. Our results show that East Asia was the most studied region in this field. Internet was the most popular keyword, and it was also the most studied communication technology followed by mobile phone, information communication tec...