Content and Discourse Analysis of Cruelty towards Stray Dogs as Presented in Chinese Social Media

IF 0.6 4区农林科学 Q4 SOCIOLOGY

Society & Animals Pub Date : 2020-06-08 DOI:10.1163/15685306-bja10015

T. W. Whyke, Joaquin Lopez-Mugica

引用次数: 2

Abstract

After recent reports emerged of a third arson attack on stray dog kennels in China’s Shandong province, those who have shown both hostility towards and support for the dogs and others involved in this event on Chinese social media have appeared. By analyzing posts and user attitudes on China’s Weibo and Baidu Tieba towards such kinds of media reports of stray dog cruelty, this article answers what the differing outlooks are on cruelty to stray dogs in contemporary Mainland China. The purpose of this article is therefore to attempt to increase a deeper understanding of the portrayal and response to certain forms of misconduct to stray dogs in user-generated contents in social media today. Several thematic demonstrations of cruelty are identified, and criticism/activism, compassion, and animosity are included. These themes are not limited, with some reports including aspects of several themes.

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中国社交媒体中流浪狗虐待行为的内容与话语分析

最近有报道称，中国山东省发生了第三起流浪狗舍纵火案，之后，中国社交媒体上出现了对流浪狗和其他参与这起事件的人表示敌意和支持的人。通过分析中国微博和百度贴吧上的帖子和用户对此类媒体虐待流浪狗报道的态度，本文回答了当代中国大陆对虐待流浪狗的不同看法。因此，本文的目的是试图加深对当今社交媒体用户生成内容中流浪狗某些不当行为的描述和回应的理解。确定了几个残酷的主题展示，包括批评/激进主义、同情和敌意。这些主题不受限制，一些报告包括几个主题的各个方面。

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来源期刊

Society & Animals 社会科学-兽医学

CiteScore

1.40

自引率

12.50%

发文量

审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Society & Animals publishes studies that describe and analyze our experiences of non-human animals from the perspective of various disciplines within both the Social Sciences (e.g., psychology, sociology, anthropology, political science) and the Humanities (e.g., history, literary criticism). The journal specifically deals with subjects such as human-animal interactions in various settings (animal cruelty, the therapeutic uses of animals), the applied uses of animals (research, education, medicine and agriculture), the use of animals in popular culture (e.g. dog-fighting, circus, animal companion, animal research), attitudes toward animals as affected by different socializing agencies and strategies, representations of animals in literature, the history of the domestication of animals, the politics of animal welfare, and the constitution of the animal rights movement.