One Rising China, Multiple Interpretations: China's 60th anniversary celebration through the lens of the world's printed media
What does a rising China mean to the world? While some countries take China as a salient threat, others regard China as their role model for development and governance. However, limited research has offered a systematic comparative analysis in this regard. China's spectacular celebration of its 60th anniversary uniquely showcased its increasing military might, mounting economic wealth and carefully-maintained mass support. Taking advantage of simultaneous worldwide news coverage of this all-in-one event, we scrutinize how different societies responded to a rising China. We find significant variance in the news coverage from 42 top printed media in 21 sampled societies. Moreover, these societies' political features affect their newspapers' reporting styles the most. This analysis significantly enriches our understanding of the rise of China.
Framing the sharing economy: A transnational framing analysis
With the development of globalization, the sharing economy a business model that refers to peer-to-peer based access to goods and services has caught media attention worldwide but remains understudied by communication scholars. Based on framing theory, this study uses an international perspective to explore how the media in the United States and China frame the global issue of the sharing economy. Following a transnational framing analysis model, this study finds that media in both countries may construct the sharing economy as corporate behavior with conflicts between governments and corporations. The U.S. media may construct an individual-oriented frame while the Chinese media present a corporate-oriented approach. These and other findings of this study confirm the applicability of the transnational framing model in framing research and identify the possible influence of culture on media coverage, and potentially on public acceptance of an innovative concept. Theoretical implications and practical suggestions for global coverage of the sharing economy are discussed.
Points of strong summability of Fourier series
In this paper we present a new solution of Hardy and Littlewood's problem concerning strong summability of Fourier series; we also present a property of points of strong summability.