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The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics took place when American public opinion about China was already predominantly negative as media reports had a lot of highlights of human rights violations happening in China. Besides, earlier, the global image of China was undermined by the COVID-19 pandemic. In this study, we explored whether American public opinion about the Olympics and China can be influenced by images of the Olympics shared in the media. Findings from the 2 × 2 between-subject experimental design suggest that the opinions about the Olympics can be predicted by people's beliefs about China's role in the global pandemic. In addition to that, our findings suggest that pre-existing opinions and feelings held by most of the population can mitigate the effects of visual primes. © The Author(s) 2023.
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The press, as a culturally structured system, contributes to the formation of audience self-images – defining one's domestic identity – and hetero images – defining the Other. Using journalistic translation and journalism studies, this contribution explores the national image provided by the Italian press in news translated into English by the Ansa news agency website during the current COVID-19 pandemic. The few studies on news translations including the English-Italian language pair studied the linguistic characteristics of translated language (i.e. universals), thus making the analysis of national image in news translation an unexplored area. The methodological framework will be based on Critical Discourse Analysis' qualitative approach as well as two essential concepts from Journalism Studies. To begin with, the concept of gatekeeping can be used to explain the various flows of information and news provided in translated articles. Second, understanding the framework of news manipulation and rewriting will be made possible by understanding the concept of frame. The goal is to disclose how the Italian national image is communicated. © 2022 Masarykova Univerzita. All rights reserved.
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Although there has been an increasing number of studies investigating media representations of the COVID-19 outbreak around the world, less international attention has been given to Chinese media outlets' coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak than that of their western counterparts. This study employs corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis to investigate how China is linguistically represented in a state-run English-language news media. The analysis reveals that China is respectively represented as a victim, a fighter, and a cooperative/supportive country with ideological implications for global solidarity and humanitarianism. This study sheds light on the effective use of discursive strategies in promoting international cooperation and building a national image amid a global health crisis. The value of using corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis to examine national image is also highlighted. © The Author(s) 2023.
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This study aims to conduct a framing analysis of Chinese and American media coverage of Chinese COVID-19 vaccine. Since 2021, China exports or donates vaccines to developing countries, arousing the attention of Chinese and American media. The competition between China and the USA over national image extends to the vaccine field. Media framing is a powerful tool to construct a national image. It is worth comparing how Chinese and American media use framings to construct national images on vaccine issues. This study conducts a framing analysis of news coverage in People's Daily (PD) and The New York Times (NYT) on Chinese COVID-19 vaccine from January to March 2021 to determine how the media use specific framings to construct national images. The results show PD favors official action and cooperation frames, constructing the discourse of "public goods” and "cooperation” and shaping a fair and cooperative China image;while NYT favors official action, conflict and skepticism frames, constructing the discourse of "diplomatic tool” and "competition” and shaping a selfish and competitive China image. A positive image is helpful for China to reposition itself in global public opinion and enhance its soft power, while a negative discourse deconstructs the positive China image and counterbalances China's vaccine diplomacy. © 2022 Asian Media Information and Communication Centre.
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A community often relies on memorials as a physical manifestation of their stance on a significantly fortunate event or even a traumatic one - despite the constant debate on dedicating a certain number of resources and effort to memorialize the latter, given the destructive effects it causes in our daily life. This debate is even more relevant in light of the global COVID-19 pandemic. This paper analyzed several examples of post-pandemic memorials, the historical and scientific contexts, as well as the varying attitudes of communities surrounding them. These analyses will refer to prior studies on the roles of memorials and monuments within the construction of memory and history, as well as the natural responses to grief and loss based on Freud's 1917 essay "Mourning and Melancholia". This paper emphasizes on how pandemics - particularly the current one - changes lifestyles and the way communities occupy public and domestic spaces, as well as where memorials stand in this transformed architectural field. © 2022 Novel Carbon Resource Sciences. All rights reserved.
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This study aims to understand the impact of six success factors of K-pop on the national image of Korea perceived by global viewers and SNS citizenship behavior. In addition, this study seeks to validate the impact of the national image of Korea/SNS citizenship behavior, as defined in the foregoing, on tourist behavioral intention. Our analysis was conducted within the theoretical frameworks of the SERVQUAL, Image Theory, and the Theory of Planned Behavior. To that end, 1247 global viewers (eight countries) who have listened, watched and searched for information on K-pop are surveyed. Four statistical programs (SPSS/SmartPLS/GSCA Pro/JASP) are used for regression analysis and structural equation modeling. The results indicate the following. (1) Four K-pop success factors (producers, casting, producing/promotion, and contents) demonstrate a statistically significant positive influence on national image. (2) Two K-pop success factors (casting and producing/promotion) demonstrate a statistically significant positive influence on SNS citizenship behavior. In addition, K-pop contents has a statistically significant positive influence on SNS citizenship behavior (only in SPSS). (3) National image has a statistically significant positive influence on SNS citizenship behavior;and national image and SNS citizenship behavior have a statistically significant positive influence on tourist behavioral intention. As an exemplary cultural product, K-pop is creating economic added value. It is necessary to establish the measures to integrate K-pop in product planning and PR for sustainable marketing for Hallyu tourism.
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Prior research suggests that a country’s national image is dependent on how effectively it keeps informed key stakeholders, and counter misinformation and disinformation being transmitted to both diaspora and foreign audiences during a pandemic. In the light of this argument, this forum article critically analyzed the Indian government’s efforts to manage COVID-19 information crisis on social media during the second surge of the pandemic. Consequently, we suggest that despite restricting #ResignModi on social media and eventually curtailing the free flow of information to portray its competent management of the pandemic, such efforts seem to be counterproductive.