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Book Review: Psychophysiological Measurement and Meaning: Cognitive and Emotional Processing of Media 书评：心理生理学测量与意义：媒体的认知和情感处理

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Global Media and China Pub Date : 2024-08-18 DOI: 10.1177/20594364241267711

Yuqing Zhu

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Performing fear in television production: Practices of an illiberal democracy 在电视制作中表演恐惧：非自由民主的实践

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Global Media and China Pub Date : 2024-07-25 DOI: 10.1177/20594364241267702

Renyi He

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Water as elemental medium and heritage: The case of Sangyuanwei Polder embankment system 作为元素媒介和遗产的水：三元围圩堤系统案例

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Global Media and China Pub Date : 2024-04-17 DOI: 10.1177/20594364241246902

Lei Xi

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Twitch spouse: Livestreaming and the legacy of spousal labour in the video game industry Twitch 配偶：视频游戏行业中的直播和配偶劳动的遗产

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Global Media and China Pub Date : 2024-04-13 DOI: 10.1177/20594364241247675

Christine H Tran

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Remediated memory, digital witnessing and engagement: A qualitative analysis of the interactive documentary ‘The Space We Hold’ 补救记忆、数字见证和参与：对互动纪录片《我们拥有的空间》的定性分析

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Global Media and China Pub Date : 2024-03-05 DOI: 10.1177/20594364241236909

Weikun Fan

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Does ChatGPT change artificial intelligence-enabled marketing capability? Social media investigation of public sentiment and usage ChatGPT 能否改变人工智能营销能力？公众情绪和使用情况的社交媒体调查

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Global Media and China Pub Date : 2024-01-31 DOI: 10.1177/20594364241228880

Vu Minh Ngo

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Care(lessness) in precarious journalism, before and during the pandemic: Freelancers’ work-life experiences and coping strategies 在大流行之前和期间，不稳定新闻业中的 "不关心"：自由职业者的工作与生活经历及应对策略

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Global Media and China Pub Date : 2024-01-30 DOI: 10.1177/20594364241230434

Mirjam Gollmitzer

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State-led embeddedness: Analyzing the discursive construction of platforms and social good in Beijing, Hangzhou, Shanghai, and Shenzhen 国家主导的嵌入性：分析北京、杭州、上海和深圳对平台和社会公益的话语建构

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Global Media and China Pub Date : 2024-01-09 DOI: 10.1177/20594364241226845

Ngai Keung Chan, Chi-ying Kwok

{"title":"State-led embeddedness: Analyzing the discursive construction of platforms and social good in Beijing, Hangzhou, Shanghai, and Shenzhen","authors":"Ngai Keung Chan, Chi-ying Kwok","doi":"10.1177/20594364241226845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20594364241226845","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on Polanyi’s concept of embeddedness, this article introduces the concept of “state-led embeddedness” to theorize non-competitive and subordinating state-platform relations in China. Under state-led embeddedness, platforms are not conceived first and foremost as private economic actors but as instruments for providing social good and resolving social problems. This article presents a qualitative thematic analysis of the official discourses about platforms for and against social good in four major cities that represent key technology and innovation hubs in China: Beijing, Hangzhou, Shanghai, and Shenzhen. The analysis reveals how platforms are discursively portrayed as emerging providers of social good, both nationally and locally. This discursive construction of platforms in conjunction with social good, in turn, encourages the state to legitimize collaborative governance and surveillance practices in cities like Beijing, Hangzhou, Shanghai, and Shenzhen. Finally, this study affords opportunities to regionalize platform studies in China by considering how diverse forms of intergovernmental relationships might result in diverse interpretations of a “platform for social good” in practical scenarios.","PeriodicalId":42637,"journal":{"name":"Global Media and China","volume":"14 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139443238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Nearby art: A new type of public art practice in the Pearl River Delta, China 附近的艺术中国珠江三角洲的新型公共艺术实践

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Global Media and China Pub Date : 2024-01-05 DOI: 10.1177/20594364231223772

Yaqin Zhong, Qingtong Yang, Yiwen Wang

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Book review: Minzu as technology: Ethnic identity and social media in post 2000s China 书评：作为技术的民族：2000年后中国的民族认同与社交媒体

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Global Media and China Pub Date : 2023-12-30 DOI: 10.1177/20594364231224817

Chi Zhang

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