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The postcolonial route of WeChat: technological mimicry, excess, and orientalism 微信的后殖民路线：技术模仿、过度和东方主义

IF 2.6 2区文学

Asian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2022-09-03 DOI: 10.1080/01292986.2022.2077972

Fan Yang

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引用次数: 2

News framing through English-Chinese translation 从英汉翻译看新闻框架

IF 2.6 2区文学

Asian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1080/01292986.2022.2118800

Junfeng Zhang, Qijun Song

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引用次数: 0

(Im)mobile homes: family life at a distance in the age of mobile media 移动家庭:移动媒体时代的远程家庭生活

IF 2.6 2区文学

Asian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2022-07-08 DOI: 10.1080/01292986.2022.2097716

Hong Chen

引用次数: 7

China’s mediated public diplomacy towards Japan: a text-as-data approach 中国斡旋的对日公共外交：一种文本即数据的方法

IF 2.6 2区文学

Asian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2022-07-04 DOI: 10.1080/01292986.2022.2034901

Yuanxia Zhou

引用次数: 1

In Memoriam 为纪念

IF 2.6 2区文学

Asian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2022-06-15 DOI: 10.1080/01292986.2022.2069830

引用次数: 0

Media freedom in Asia: challenges from below 亚洲的媒体自由:来自底层的挑战

IF 2.6 2区文学

Asian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/01292986.2022.2068915

Cherian George, K. Youm

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引用次数: 2

Cyber-troops, digital attacks, and media freedom in Indonesia 印尼的网络部队、数字攻击和媒体自由

IF 2.6 2区文学

Asian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/01292986.2022.2062609

Masduki

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引用次数: 3

Polyphony: Listening to the Listeners of Community Radio 复调：倾听社区电台的听众

IF 2.6 2区文学

Asian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2022-04-18 DOI: 10.1080/01292986.2022.2065688

T. Hazeena

引用次数: 1

How do social media affect people’s compassion and civic action? The case of the Sewol Ferry disaster in Korea 社交媒体如何影响人们的同情心和公民行动?韩国世越号沉船事件

IF 2.6 2区文学

Asian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2022-04-11 DOI: 10.1080/01292986.2022.2061541

J. Kim, Yong-Chan Kim, Ahra Cho, Euikyung Shin, Yeji Kwon

引用次数: 0

Facebook populism: mediatized narratives of exclusionary nationalism in the Philippines 脸书民粹主义：菲律宾排外民族主义的中介叙事