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(Pragmatic) collaboration for progress or threat to autonomy? African news discourses about Chinese technology in Nigeria and Ghana (务实）合作促进进步还是威胁自主？尼日利亚和加纳有关中国技术的非洲新闻论述

IF 2.1 2区文学

Global Media and China Pub Date : 2024-02-07 DOI: 10.1177/20594364241232757

Dennis Nguyen, Bei Wang, Bruce Mutsvairo

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(Pragmatic) collaboration for progress or threat to autonomy? African news discourses about Chinese technology in Nigeria and Ghana (务实）合作促进进步还是威胁自主？尼日利亚和加纳有关中国技术的非洲新闻论述

IF 2.1 2区文学

Global Media and China Pub Date : 2024-02-07 DOI: 10.1177/20594364241232757

Dennis Nguyen, Bei Wang, Bruce Mutsvairo

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“Being pretty does not help your success”: Self-representation and aspiration of China’s female showroom livestreamers "漂亮无助于成功"：中国女性秀场直播者的自我展示与诉求

IF 2.1 2区文学

Global Media and China Pub Date : 2024-01-31 DOI: 10.1177/20594364241230436

Zhen Ye, T. Krijnen

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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

IF 2.1 2区文学

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

Vu Minh Ngo

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Negotiation between ambition and reality: The path to Chinese feminist media’s development 雄心与现实的斡旋：中国女性主义媒体的发展之路

IF 2.1 2区文学

Global Media and China Pub Date : 2024-01-31 DOI: 10.1177/20594364241230430

Zhijuan Chen, Liangqi Ding

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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

IF 2.1 2区文学

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

Mirjam Gollmitzer

{"title":"Care(lessness) in precarious journalism, before and during the pandemic: Freelancers’ work-life experiences and coping strategies","authors":"Mirjam Gollmitzer","doi":"10.1177/20594364241230434","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20594364241230434","url":null,"abstract":"Since the COVID-19 pandemic, interest in care as a potential remedy for a variety of issues and crises, such as improving global health justice or creating more “caring” educational systems, has increased across academic disciplines. This article contributes to this literature from the perspective of journalism studies. It explores whether the notion of care captures and addresses one facet of the contemporary news industry crisis, namely the precarity of journalists. I focus on the work-life narratives of a small group of freelance journalists in Germany and Canada before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Applying a care lens articulates the struggles the freelancers experience regarding income, social security, housing, and childcare as a result of careless states and careless markets. Furthermore, the care practices journalists use as coping strategies merge mutual aid for fellow freelancers or members of their local communities with entrepreneurial networking for professional survival. However, such informal care practices cannot make up for structural gaps in support. Waged work—outside journalism—in the formal labor market, performed by the freelancers themselves or their life partners, turned out to be more important for coping with precarity. Overall, the pandemic meant more continuity than change for the care struggles as well as coping strategies of the journalists examined here. Nevertheless, those with residential property, gainfully employed life partners, and established care networks fared best, hinting at the crucial role of privilege in shaping the work experiences of precarious journalists during crises.","PeriodicalId":42637,"journal":{"name":"Global Media and China","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139951811","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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Book Review: China’s Communication of the Belt and Road Initiative: Silk Road and Infrastructure Narratives 书评：中国对 "一带一路 "倡议的传播：丝绸之路与基础设施叙事

IF 2.1 2区文学

Global Media and China Pub Date : 2024-01-18 DOI: 10.1177/20594364241228398

Zhiqiang Zhao

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Infrastructural capitalism in China: Alibaba, its corporate culture and three infrastructural mechanisms 中国的基础设施资本主义：阿里巴巴、其企业文化和三种基础设施机制

IF 2.1 2区文学

Global Media and China Pub Date : 2024-01-11 DOI: 10.1177/20594364241226846

T. Tse, Ngai Pun

{"title":"Infrastructural capitalism in China: Alibaba, its corporate culture and three infrastructural mechanisms","authors":"T. Tse, Ngai Pun","doi":"10.1177/20594364241226846","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20594364241226846","url":null,"abstract":"Contrasting existing scholarship in ‘socialism with Chinese characteristics’, this article builds on the theorisation of infrastructural capitalism as an emerging global-capitalist project entangled with both China’s state-socialist ideology and the latest nationalistic revitalisation agenda, serving both political and commercial goals, yet also rendering discontent and resistance in daily business and employment practices. Through participant observation across 13 Alibaba departments or subsidiaries, semi-structured interviews with workers in Alibaba and other Chinese platform companies, and the analysis of corporate documentation and media reports, our ethnographic study highlights the ‘physical and digital (phygital)’ nature of infrastructure, and theorises how discursive, symbolic, and sensorial techniques are adopted to direct and sustain infrastructural capitalism in daily organisational setting through three unique mechanisms: public-private partnerships, corporate prosumption networks (CPN) and imagineered global competition. This article’s key contributions are threefold: to dissect the intertwined discursive, symbolic and affective mechanisms through which the ‘invisible’ infrastructures of capitalism are made ‘visible’ and ‘sensible’; unpack the variegated impacts and inherent dilemmas of infrastructural capitalism; and reimagine the possibility of individual resistance and systemic transgression.","PeriodicalId":42637,"journal":{"name":"Global Media and China","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139625698","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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Book Review: Perfect: Feeling Judged on Social Media 书评完美：感受社交媒体上的评判

IF 2.1 2区文学

Global Media and China Pub Date : 2024-01-11 DOI: 10.1177/20594364241226519

Yifei Zhao

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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

IF 2.1 2区文学

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

Ngai Keung Chan, Chi-ying Kwok

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