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{"title":"Make the invisible visible: communicative response to anti-Asian racism","authors":"Jin‐Ae Kang, Youngju Shin, D. K. Kim, P. Schulz","doi":"10.1080/01292986.2023.2180530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01292986.2023.2180530","url":null,"abstract":"Anti-Asian sentiment has undoubtedly increased since the COVID-19 pandemic began in early 2020. Violence against Asian populations has notably surged (Pillai et al., 2021). In 16 of the largest US cities, hate crimes targeting Asians increased by 149% between 2019 and 2020, while overall reports of hate crimes declined by 7% over the same period (Martin & Yoon, 2021). A Pew Research Center Survey reported that one-third of Asian Americans feared racial discrimination or anti-Asian terrorism (Ruiz et al., 2021). In addition, a recent survey showed that 40% of US adults believed that more people have expressed racist views toward Asians since the pandemic began (Ruiz et al., 2020). This situation has not changed although the threat of COVID-19 has become less severe, and the Trump administration was replaced in 2021. According to the STAATUS Index Report 2022, 21 percent of Americans believe that Asian Americans are at least partly responsible for COVID-19, compared to 11% in 2021. In 2022 more Americans think that antiChinese names for COVID-19, such as ‘Wuhan virus’, are appropriate (2022 STAATUS Index Report, 2022). In 2021 alone, nearly one-third of the Asian Americans who participated in the survey said they had been told to ‘go back to your country’. One in six Asian American adults experienced a hate crime or hate incident in 2021, which is an increase from 1 in 8 in 2020 (Lee & Ramakrishnan, 2022). These cases reconfirm the deep-rooted nature of antiAsian racism in America. In response to such incidents, scholarship has called for studies on racism against Asians (i.e. Gao & Liu, 2021; Li & Nicholson, 2021; Woo & Jun, 2021). Some studies have focused on the psychological issues related to anti-Asian stigma, while others have tried to understand anti-Asian racism through sociological approaches (i.e. Misra et al., 2020; Wu et al., 2021). However, many studies on anti-Asian racism have taken place during the COVID-19 pandemic. More effort should be made to explore the prolonged social issue of discrimination and prejudice against Asians beyond the immediate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Even though communication is fundamental to shaping psychological bias, social discrimination, and the political environment, limited existing studies approach anti-Asian racism from a communication perspective. Asian Americans are not common research subjects in existing communication literature on social justice issues. More importantly, communication is the solution to dismantling anti-Asian sentiment and achieving social change. However, there is limited research on how Asians (or Asian Americans) can act as main communication agents and take actions to react to, cope with, and combat racism and prejudice. Therefore, this special issue aims to make the unheard voice of Asians to be heard and to shed light on the imperative issue of anti-Asian racism through scholarly works. The idea for this special issue originated during a virtual conversation session","PeriodicalId":46924,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Communication","volume":"33 1","pages":"63 - 67"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45918528","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}

{"title":"Covid-19 and xenophobia in America: media exposure, anti-Asian stigmatization, and deservingness of Asian immigrants","authors":"Lars Willnat, Jian Shi, D. De Coninck","doi":"10.1080/01292986.2023.2176898","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01292986.2023.2176898","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT\u0000 Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020, there has been a significant uptick in anti-Asian sentiment in the United States. Many believe these racist attitudes are cultivated by polarizing political messages and news coverage of the pandemic. Based on a 2021 online survey conducted among 913 White Americans, this study examines possible associations between exposure to pandemic-related news, anti-Asian stigmatization, and the perceived deservingness of Asian immigrants. The findings indicate that the consumption of pandemic-related news on Fox News and social media is associated with higher levels of anti-Asian stigmatization, while exposure to such news on traditional media outlets is not. As expected, respondents with higher levels of anti-Asian stigmatization perceive Asian immigrants as less deserving to come to the United States. Among the five criteria of a newly developed immigrant deservingness scale, especially identity, attitude, and need are associated with anti-Asian stigmatization.","PeriodicalId":46924,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Communication","volume":"33 1","pages":"87 - 104"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49062577","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}

{"title":"Understanding religious influence through elevation on green advertising effectiveness among Muslims: an examination from the UAE and the USA","authors":"Kang Li, Ridwan Raji, Azmat Rasul","doi":"10.1080/01292986.2023.2176897","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01292986.2023.2176897","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Given the growth of green advertising due to increasing environmental concerns, as well as the scarce religious advertising research on Muslims, this research investigates religious and cultural effects on Muslims’ purchase intentions when reacting to green advertising. The results from two experimental studies show that Islamic religious appeals exert a moderated mediation effect on Muslims’ intentions to purchase green products. Specifically, a self-transcendent emotion – elevation – conditionally mediated the effects of religious appeals via the moderation of individual Muslims’ religiosity. However, cultural appeals did not affect Muslims in the United States of America (USA) and United Arab Emirates (UAE) differently.","PeriodicalId":46924,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Communication","volume":"33 1","pages":"268 - 288"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45961963","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}

{"title":"Blaming Asians for coronavirus: the role of valenced framing and discrete emotions in hostile media effect","authors":"Juan Liu","doi":"10.1080/01292986.2023.2169722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01292986.2023.2169722","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Prior research indicates news sources affect hostile media perceptions, but the role of valenced framing and discrete emotions in perceived media bias remains under-explored. Based on the framing theory and hostile media effect, the study uses an experiment with 2 (CNN vs. Fox News) × 2 (Positive framing vs. Negative framing) design to examine the mediating role of discrete emotions (e.g. hope, anger, and sadness), as well as the moderating effects of racial prejudice. In contrast to prior scholarship, news sources in the study did not influence perceived media bias. However, the results show that hope, anger, and sadness all mediate the relationship between valenced framing and hostile media effect. Such effect was moderated by individuals’ racial prejudice. Implications of these findings for combating anti-Asian racism and future hostile media effect research are discussed.","PeriodicalId":46924,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Communication","volume":"33 1","pages":"68 - 86"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49113959","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}

{"title":"Reflexive racialization and discursive affect with the #VeryAsian Hashtag","authors":"David C. Oh","doi":"10.1080/01292986.2023.2169723","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01292986.2023.2169723","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT On 2 January 2022, Michelle Li, a local anchor in St. Louis, played a video on Twitter of herself listening stoically to an irritated caller, who complained that Li was being ‘very Asian’ for mentioning that her family ate ‘dumpling soup’ on New Year’s Day. She claimed that a White person talking about White foods would be fired. The call and Li’s response resonated among Asian Americans and prompted a viral hashtag, #VeryAsian. The essay argues that users engaged in earnest accounts of their pride and lack of shame in pan-ethnic racial belonging as well as their ethnic heritage cultures. Notably, this meant eschewing memes, a common feature of Twitter discourse, and the racial humor of signifyin’, a feature of Black Twitter. As a networked counter-public, the posts were affirmative articulations of pride rather than explicit anti-racist critique. Even when anger was mobilized and anti-Asian hate was named, the systems or people that produce it were abstracted, demonstrating the liminality of Asian American experience and the context collapse of Twitter.","PeriodicalId":46924,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Communication","volume":"33 1","pages":"105 - 120"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45848870","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}

{"title":"Leveraging moral foundations for corporate social advocacy combating anti-Asian racism: A computational approach","authors":"Chuqing Dong, Wenlin Liu, Yafei Zhang","doi":"10.1080/01292986.2023.2169944","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01292986.2023.2169944","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT CSA on racial justice issues has become more popular in recent years. With the rising number of hate crimes against Asian Americans, including the Atlanta spa shooting incident, companies must consider how to position themselves in racial conversations to fulfill their civic responsibilities and create positive social impacts. This study employed the Moral Foundation Theory (MFT) to assess companies’ CSA communication regarding #StopAsianHate and its role in promoting public engagement on Twitter. The study analyzed 1,253 tweets posted by 469 business accounts engaging in the conversation about Stop Asian Hate on Twitter to identify prevalent CSA themes, various moral values used in CSA messages, and the relationship between the use of various moral values and public engagement (i.e. likes and retweets) on Twitter. This study adds to CSA scholarship by stressing a moral stance and providing suggestions for companies to leverage moral discourse in anti-Asian racism activism on social media.","PeriodicalId":46924,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Communication","volume":"33 1","pages":"138 - 157"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43253300","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}

{"title":"Analyzing the meaning of sexual violence in Tamil movies: a mixed method approach","authors":"P. Karupiah","doi":"10.1080/01292986.2022.2149823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01292986.2022.2149823","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The popular media are important arenas where discourses on sexual violence are often articulated. These discourses are important in the treatment of victim and perpetrator by the state, media, society and – most importantly – by those closely connected to the victim or the perpetrator. Research has consistently linked the viewing of media violence with imitative behavior, increased hostility, and acceptance of violence. This paper focuses on the portrayal of sexual violence in Tamil movies produced in Chennai, India. In this study, twenty-five movies were analyzed using quantitative and qualitative content analysis. Most perpetrators were in supporting roles. Four themes were identified in the analysis: sexual violence as an expression of love; sexual violence as an expression of masculinity; sexual violence and family honor; sexual violence and comedy. The analysis shows that the portrayal of sexual violence in Tamil movies focuses mostly on the loss of honor or virginity and does not focus on the act of violence, or the trauma experienced by the victims. These portrayals are based on a patriarchal understanding of sexual violence and share elements with common rape myths in society.","PeriodicalId":46924,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Communication","volume":"33 1","pages":"20 - 37"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43484672","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}

{"title":"Pseudo-participation, authentic nationalism: understanding Chinese fanquan girls’ personifications of the nation-state","authors":"Lut Lams, Wendy Weile Zhou","doi":"10.1080/01292986.2022.2144919","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01292986.2022.2144919","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT What are the dynamics of the participatory online discourse in an authoritarian context? More specifically, what patterns of Chinese state-society interactions can be drawn from the existing nexus of top-down control and bottom-up participation? To explore the questions, this study examines the Chinese nation-state personifications produced by ‘fanquan girls’, nationalistic fans of pop stars, during the 2019 Hong Kong protests. Three types of imageries and scenarios emerged, i.e., the nation as a charismatic idol in a discursive struggle, a protective brother on a battlefield, and a victimized mother in a trial. These visualizations construct a discursive kinship that justifies China’s governance over Hong Kong and refutes the intervention from foreign ‘hostile forces’ through visualized national strength, state-society unity, and colonial sufferings. During the process, the state provided the ideological mindset and delimited the political boundaries, the fandom participants turned the state-promoted ideas and sentiments into youth-appealing memes, and both sides appropriated and circulated each other’s creations in joint self-defense against outside reproval and opposition. Therefore, the paper argues that this communicative pattern consolidates the state’s discursive co-optation of the society rather than demolishes the authoritarian rule.","PeriodicalId":46924,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Communication","volume":"33 1","pages":"38 - 59"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43349971","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}

{"title":"A cognitive mechanism for democratic norms: testing a hypothesized model of news literacy, cross-cutting discussion, and elaboration","authors":"Bumsoo Kim","doi":"10.1080/01292986.2022.2140814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01292986.2022.2140814","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the cognitive process by which individuals who critically and mindfully evaluate news stories and who elaborate more on cross-cutting views will be more likely to have enhanced democratic norms. This study employs a national survey collected by the media institute of the Korean Broadcasting System in 2021. The findings of structural equation modeling (SEM) shed light on how individuals engage in cognitive mechanisms for democratic norms, indicating that those who often use news and evaluate it in a critical and mindful manner are more likely to endorse democratic norms as they often talk with cross-cutting networks and elaborate different thoughts of other discussants.","PeriodicalId":46924,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Communication","volume":"33 1","pages":"1 - 19"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44878156","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}

{"title":"Chinese news discourse from perspectives of communication, linguistics and pedagogy","authors":"Jiyuan Liu","doi":"10.1080/01292986.2022.2142249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01292986.2022.2142249","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46924,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Communication","volume":"33 1","pages":"60 - 62"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48938467","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}