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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 technologies, and social media. Adopting a variety of methodologies and balancing between qualitative a...
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Authors: Robert S. Hinck; Jacquelyn N. Manly; Randolph A. Kluver; William J. Norris (2016) - Chinese leaders have attempted to alleviate international anxiety about its rise to global prominence describing its development as a ‘peaceful rise’ or ‘peaceful development’. Most recently, Chinese leaders have begun deploying a new term, the ‘New Style of Great Power Relations’ (新型大国关系). The purpose of this study is to examine the treatment of the ‘New Style of Great Power Relations’ as a political slogan within the Chinese media as a means to shape a geopolitical worldview among Chinese citizens and international actors. Researchers identified 541 articles from 25 different Chinese media sources selected to represent varying levels of government influence and editorial perspectives. This study found the concept primarily intended to engage the United States by stressing cooperativ...
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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 articles. More China-focused studies used a critical/interpretative approach and fewer used mixed appro...
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Authors: Yalan Huang (2016) - Chinese university students’ promotion and performance of the feminist play The Vagina Monologues in 2013 triggered a heated debate and a strain of misogyny in social media, which demonstrate how people perceive feminism in China. Through quantitative content analysis and qualitative text analysis of 533 online comments on this feminist activity, this paper investigates the conflicts and contradictions within feminism in China and four frames (meaning packages) are identified. Three of them, namely the ‘public–private conflict’ frame, the ‘Western-Chinese conflict’ frame, the ‘class conflict’ frame, were employed to express opposition, whereas only one feminist frame held a supportive stance. Feminism in China is found to be perceived as morally deviant, foreign-rooted, and intertwined w...
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Authors: Yue Zheng; Elmie Nekmat; Ran Wei (2016) - With a total of 2.5 billion subscribers, Asia’s leadership in worldwide mobile communication calls for a systematic review of the academic research on mobile communication in Asian countries. By reviewing 120 articles published in 18 top-ranking refereed journals from 1995 to 2015, this study identified a prominent increase in research output covering multiple subfields over the past 20 years, marked by accelerated growth beginning from 2005. This rise appears to be a product of global scholarship. Limitations in the current Asian mobile communication literature were also discussed, regarding the overemphasis on East Asian countries, the lack of a unified theoretical framework, and the reliance on one-shot research designs. Directions are provided for future research to refine the s...
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Authors: Jie Xu; Guanxiong Huang (2016) - This study provides a longitudinal content analysis of peer-reviewed research articles on Asian public relations in 8 leading communication journals published over the past 20 years (1995– 2014, n = 162). Several content features of the journal articles were examined, including authorship, institution, theory presence and application, topic areas, methods, and contributions and limitations. Results revealed an increasing productivity especially from Asia-based scholars and the popularity on topics concerning public diplomacy. The analysis also indicated that most articles were theory-driven and survey was the most frequently used method. Experimentation and advanced statistical analyses have been gaining momentum as well. Implications of these findings were discussed with the goal t...
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Authors: Seok Ho Lee (2016) - This study investigated how newspapers adopted partisan branding as a product differentiation strategy under pressure of intense market competition, through cases of conservative dailies in South Korea. Despite academic interest in news media’s partisanship, only a few studies attempted to conduct analysis at the organizational level. Drawing on the hierarchy of influences model as a main theoretical framework, the present study examined how partisanship of newspapers was related to the social and economic forces. Evidence demonstrated that conservative bias increased as market competition intensified. Conservative bias was positively associated with the ideological mood of the conservative group, and the revenue decreased as conservative newspapers carried stronger conservative bias....
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Authors: Shuhua Zhou; Yeojin Kim; Yunjuan Luo; Fei Qiao (2016) - Agenda setting is one of the most recognized communication theories. This thematic analysis aims to provide an overview of agenda-setting publications in China and Korea. Results indicated that the output of agenda-setting research was impressive in both countries. Korean studies mirrored U.S. studies in terms of topical focus, but research in China narrowly concentrated on social issues. Chinese agenda-setting research was typically a-theoretical and lacking in methodological diversity, while such problems were less acute in Korean studies. More studies have moved on to the Internet and social media in both countries. Implications are discussed and new directions for future research are suggested.
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Authors: C. S. H. N. Murthy (2016) - ‘Mindful journalism’ is all about offering an ‘alternative paradigm’ of media ethics to ‘domi-nant paradigm’ for practicing journalists/media academics through a holistic approach that Buddha laid down for mankind 2500 years ago. Predicated on conditioning one’s own mind, ‘mindful journalism’ draws its principles of universality and ethical anchoring from the Buddhist philosophy and phenomenology. As everyone is aware, Buddhism is both a way of life as well as a spiritual path.
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Authors: Hồ Sĩ Quý (2023-12) - Khoa học xã hội Việt Nam ra đời muộn, nhưng được thừa kế những di sản khoa học cùng với những phương pháp nghiên cứu hiện đại của các Trung tâm khoa học phương Tây có mặt tại Việt Nam từ trước đó, và đặc biệt, được thừa kế trí tuệ của cha ông trong lịch sử nghìn năm văn hiến - dựng nước và giữ nước Việt Nam. Với lịch sử 70 năm của Viện Hàn lâm Khoa học xã hội Việt Nam, giới khoa học xã hội Việt Nam đã có những đóng góp nhất định, góp phần làm nên những thắng lợi trong các cuộc kháng chiến giành độc lập dân tộc và bảo vệ chủ quyền đất nước, trong giai đoạn chuyển đổi kinh tế thoát ra khỏi khủng hoảng, trong quá trình hội nhập quốc tế, phát triển văn hóa và xây dựng con người...
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