The U.S.-China Trade War
Global News Framing and Public Opinion in the Digital Age
Published on 1. April 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
280 pages
978-1-61186-421-2 (ISBN)
Description
Drawing on data from three national surveys, three content analyses, computational topic modeling, and rhetorical analysis, The U.S.-China Trade War sheds light on the twenty-first century's most high-profile contest over global trade to date. Through diverse empirical studies, the contributors examine the effects of news framing and agenda-setting during the trade war in the Chinese and U.S. news media. Looking at the coverage of Chinese investment in the United States, the use of peace and war journalism frames, and the way media have portrayed the trade war to domestic audiences, the studies explore how media coverage of the trade war has affected public opinion in both countries, as well as how social media has interacted with traditional media in creating news. The authors also analyze the roles of traditional news media and social media in international relations and offer insights into the interactions between professional journalism and user-generated content-interactions that increasingly affect the creation and impact of global news. At a time when social media are being blamed for spreading misinformation and rumors, this book illustrates how professional and user-generated media can reduce international conflicts, foster mutual understanding, and transcend nationalism and ethnocentrism.
Reviews / Votes
Ha and Willnat have achieved a major advance in the comparative study of news media coverage in application to an issue of great topical significance and concern in international relations. Embedded in agenda-setting and framing theory, the volume empirically and comprehensively analyzes the impacts of media structure, professional and user-generated journalism practice, and audience behaviors, as these range across legacy and digital media and through frames of war and peace. It identifies prevailing media narratives of threat and survival as worrying indications of potential future conflict.-Oliver Boyd-Barrett, professor emeritus, College of Arts and Sciences, Bowling Green State University, and coeditor, Media Imperialism: Continuity and Change Solid, comprehensive, and comparative in perspective, this collection of empirical studies makes a timely and important contribution to our understanding of news framing and public opinion on a global issue across media systems in a digitizing world.-Joseph M. Chan, emeritus professor of Journalism and Communication, School of Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong This book is insightful, analytic, and rigorous. Ha and Willnat and their constellation of communication scholars dissected the U.S.-China trade war and exhaustively examined how the trade war was framed by traditional and social media and Chinese and U.S. media, as well as partisan and government media. This book serves as an exemplar for future book authors wishing to study an international event; how public opinions are formed around it; and its many political, cultural, and economic implications.-Shuhua Zhou, professor and Leonard H. Goldenson Endowed Chair in Radio and Television Journalism, Missouri School of Journalism, University of MissouriMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
East Lansing, MI
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
7
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
313 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61186-421-2 (9781611864212)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
LOUISA HA is Professor of Research Excellence in the School of Media and Communication and the founder and chair of the Emerging Media Research Cluster at Bowling Green State University.
LARS WILLNAT is the John Ben Snow Endowed Research Chair in the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.
LARS WILLNAT is the John Ben Snow Endowed Research Chair in the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.
Content
Contents
Introduction: The U.S.-China Trade War as a Case Study of U.S.-China Relations, Louisa Ha and Lars Willnat
Part 1. Economic and International Contexts
The China Knot: A Brief History of U.S.-China Trade Relations Leading to the Trade War, Steven Beckman and Stephen J. Hartnett
China's Foreign Direct Investment Expansion: News Coverage of U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission Reports, Hamilton Bean
National Images as Integrated Schemas: How Americans and Chinese Think about Each Other and the U.S.-China Trade War, Lars Willnat, Shuo Tang, Jian Shi, and Ning Zhan
Part 2. Media Coverage of the Trade War in the United States
U.S. Television News Coverage of the Trade War: Partisan vs. Nonpartisan Media, Rik Ray and Yanqin Lu
How Media Use and Perceptions of Chinese Immigrants and Mainland Chinese Affect Americans' Attitudes toward the U.S.-China Trade War, Ruonan Zhang, Louisa Ha, and Nicky Chang Bi
How News Media Content and Fake News about the Trade War Are Shared on Twitter: A Topic Modeling and Content Analysis, Louisa Ha, Rik Ray, Frankline Matanji, and Yang Yang
Part 3. Media Coverage of the Trade War in China
How the Chinese News Media Present the U.S.-China Trade War, Peiqin Chen and Ke Guo
Comparing U.S. and Chinese Media Coverage of the U.S.-China Trade War: War and Peace Journalism Practice and the Foreign Policy Information Market Equilibrium Hypothesis, Louisa Ha, Yang Yang, Rik Ray, Frankline Matanji, Peiqin Chen, Ke Guo, and Nan Lyu
How Weibo Influencers and Ordinary Posters Responded to the U.S.-China Trade War, Louisa Ha, Peiqin Chen, Ke Guo, and Nan Lyu
Conclusion: The Roles of Professional and User-Generated Media in Shaping U.S.-China Relations in the Digital Age, Louisa Ha and Lars Willnat
Contributors
Introduction: The U.S.-China Trade War as a Case Study of U.S.-China Relations, Louisa Ha and Lars Willnat
Part 1. Economic and International Contexts
The China Knot: A Brief History of U.S.-China Trade Relations Leading to the Trade War, Steven Beckman and Stephen J. Hartnett
China's Foreign Direct Investment Expansion: News Coverage of U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission Reports, Hamilton Bean
National Images as Integrated Schemas: How Americans and Chinese Think about Each Other and the U.S.-China Trade War, Lars Willnat, Shuo Tang, Jian Shi, and Ning Zhan
Part 2. Media Coverage of the Trade War in the United States
U.S. Television News Coverage of the Trade War: Partisan vs. Nonpartisan Media, Rik Ray and Yanqin Lu
How Media Use and Perceptions of Chinese Immigrants and Mainland Chinese Affect Americans' Attitudes toward the U.S.-China Trade War, Ruonan Zhang, Louisa Ha, and Nicky Chang Bi
How News Media Content and Fake News about the Trade War Are Shared on Twitter: A Topic Modeling and Content Analysis, Louisa Ha, Rik Ray, Frankline Matanji, and Yang Yang
Part 3. Media Coverage of the Trade War in China
How the Chinese News Media Present the U.S.-China Trade War, Peiqin Chen and Ke Guo
Comparing U.S. and Chinese Media Coverage of the U.S.-China Trade War: War and Peace Journalism Practice and the Foreign Policy Information Market Equilibrium Hypothesis, Louisa Ha, Yang Yang, Rik Ray, Frankline Matanji, Peiqin Chen, Ke Guo, and Nan Lyu
How Weibo Influencers and Ordinary Posters Responded to the U.S.-China Trade War, Louisa Ha, Peiqin Chen, Ke Guo, and Nan Lyu
Conclusion: The Roles of Professional and User-Generated Media in Shaping U.S.-China Relations in the Digital Age, Louisa Ha and Lars Willnat
Contributors