Networked Framing: Chinese Microbloggers’ Framing of the Political Discourse at the 2012 Democratic National Convention
Autor: | Richard W. Leeman, Min Jiang, King-wa Fu |
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Rok vydání: | 2015 |
Předmět: |
Linguistics and Language
Microblogging Communication 05 social sciences Media studies 050801 communication & media studies Political communication Language and Linguistics 0506 political science Education Convention Politics 0508 media and communications Framing (social sciences) Foreign policy Elite 050602 political science & public administration Social media Sociology Social science |
Zdroj: | Communication Reports. 29:87-99 |
ISSN: | 1745-1043 0893-4215 |
DOI: | 10.1080/08934215.2015.1098715 |
Popis: | Social media use has complicated the conduct of foreign affairs by producing unintended audiences and opinions. This study examines Chinese Sina Weibo users’ framing of the political discourse of the 2012 Democratic National Convention (DNC). We found influential independent users and alternative commercial media, rather than official media, dominate the framing of the DNC political discourse on Sina Weibo. Elite Chinese microbloggers have a good understanding of U.S. electoral politics, with the “social media contest” frame and issues related to China and Asia receiving particular attention. Our exploration suggests traditional framing research needs to consider a new form of “networked framing” that relies on the interactions between elite and nonelite users and algorithmic aggregations afforded by new digital platforms. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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