‘I’m about to get my tamp on.’ Framing tampons in We Media promotion posts targeting Chinese females

With much silence around menstruation, certain superstitions and beliefs still prevail in Confucian East Asian cultures such as China. As a result, domestic tampon brands did not appear until 2016. This study examines the promotion posts of tampons that are new to Chinese females on We Media channels. Specifically, a content analysis was conducted on the frames used in these promotion posts composed by different types of public accounts, guided by the intersectional perspective. Besides the commonly used generic frames, the issue-specific frames reflected how public accounts symbolized the use of the product. More than half of the promotion posts focused on the health benefits of tampons, and about a quarter portrayed them as being trendy. Despite their relative small amounts, the care and independence frames were also worth further attention, considering that contemporary Chinese society is increasingly normalizing gender equality and females’ economic independence. While a spectrum of values and ideas co-exist, these posts reflect the gender equality wave of the current kaleidoscopic Chinese society.     

Hezbollah and the framing of resistance

Abstract

Hezbollah is a holistic network whose social, political, military and cultural dimensions are all parts of a discourse of resistance. Conducting a qualitative frame analysis of speeches by Hezbollah’s General Secretary Nasrallah, supported by interviews with Hezbollah leadership privy to its ideology, this study analyses the construction of muqawama (resistance). It argues that resistance is a complex social phenomenon, which can be manifested, for example, in the differences in how resistance is framed in varying contexts, often addressing different audiences. However, three unifying themes emerged from the frame analysis: diversity of resistance, normalisation of resistance and social dimensions of resistance.     

论加强网络新媒体时代公安新闻宣传工作的措施

公安新闻宣传工作是公安工作的重要组成部分。公安新闻发言人制度是推行警务信息公开、保障公民民主权利的重要途径,是构建和谐警民关系的一个必要的组成部分,也是公安机关危机公关中不可或缺的手段。它承担着通过媒体网络向公众提供信息,与媒体网络和公众实现沟通,用政策议程引导传媒议程和社会舆论的职能。公安机关要勇于实事求是,善于做好网络新媒体时代下的公安新闻宣传工作,树立人民警察的良好形象。     

新媒体对国家安全的影响与对策研究

新媒体的出现,极大地改变了信息传播方式,推动我国的社会形态发生改变,对国家安全尤其是社会政治稳定产生了深远影响。面对新媒体的迅速崛起,有关部门要加大舆论正面引导,充分发挥"意见领袖"的作用,将新媒体建设成为群体性突发事件的预警平台。同时,还需加强应急预案建设和信息安全立法,以保障新媒体健康发展。     

基于智能终端的网络社交媒体对公安队伍建设与管理的影响研究

基于智能终端的网络社交媒体具有传播的广泛性和即时性、传播主体的个性化和多元化、传播形式的多样性和丰富性等特点。公安机关在基于智能终端的网络社交媒体传播中的表现形态丰富,呈现出以微博为载体的"平安"系列政务微博、以抖音为载体的系列政务视频、以企业微信为载体的系列政务微信、以微信公众号为载体的系列政务微信和民警个人微信,体现了发布内容的权威性与时效性、发布形式的多样化与生动性、发布场景的生活化与日常化、信息接受对象的明确性与广泛性等特点。基于智能终端的网络社交媒体运用对公安队伍建设与管理的启发主要体现为:提高科学站位,明确互联网思维在公安队伍建设中的定位;加大公安机关在网络社交媒体上的宣传力度,丰富公安工作宣传的类型与内容;加强涉警舆情的处置,提高防范风险意识;充分利用网络社交媒体,开展公安队伍内部建设等。     

Party contestation and Europe on the news agenda: The 2009 European Parliamentary Elections

In this article we analyse the news coverage of the 2009 EP elections in all 27 EU member states (N = 52,009). We propose that the extent to which these second-order elections are salient to the media depends on political parties contesting the elections. Consistent with expectations, the findings suggest that the saliency of EP elections is increasing and that the degree of political contestation over Europe contributes to this development in a non-linear fashion so that only when contestation develops beyond a certain point, does media coverage increase.     

The (Partisan) Role of the Press in Direct Democratic Campaigns: Evidence from a Swiss Vote on European Integration

Abstract: This article analyzes the role of the press in direct democratic campaigns. The paper argues the press has a dual role: On news pages, newspapers ought to inform citizens about the issue positions and frames of the pro and con camps in a balanced way. In editorials, newspapers act as political advocates that promote their own issue frames and try to shape public opinion through voting recommendations. Comparing the issue positions and frames in editorials and news reports in the run‐up to the vote on the popular initiative “Yes to Europe” in Switzerland, this article shows that newspapers give similar visibility to the pro and con camps regardless of the papers’ own editorial position. However, some newspapers favor issue frames that are in line with their editorial perspectives. In conclusion, newspapers are more similar in news report content than in editorial views.     

The media coverage of court proceedings in Europe: Striking a balance between freedom of expression and fair process

Press curiosity to report on legal proceedings has been a salacious feature in history of mass media. Pre-trial comment, media coverage of press proceedings and the protection of privacy of the defendant are some of the main legal issues which are raised by the ambiguous relation of media to court proceedings. The Internet revolution and the emergence of the blogosphere have added a new dimension to the analysis of these legal issues. A balance between freedom of expression and the guarantee of a fair unprejudiced process has to be achieved in the context of application of legal mechanisms of protection of the justice’s authority, such as contempt of court. As regards the question of media coverage of the court proceedings, the decision of the UK Supreme Court on May 2011 to permit television coverage of its hearings demonstrates an important shift as regards how publicity is perceived by the administration of justice in the UK, while there is a certain disparity between national legislators in the way they deal with this issue at a European level. The legal question of the protection of the defendant through the effective guarantee of the presumption of innocence and, consequently, that of a fair trial is often combined with the debate about the right of the defendant’s privacy not only when there is a pressing social need for information to the public before or during the court trial but also many years after the end of the legal proceedings.     

信息补偿:新媒体时代的政策公信力重塑之道

在新媒体时代,由于民众使用媒介的差异和新信息媒介呈现民意的方式偏差,使得新信息媒介实际造成了民意沉没与民意放大的现象。在此基础上,造成原有稳定的政策公信力基础被瓦解,产生了政策公信力危机。政府应当采取对策,通过"信息补偿"方式,以"控制影响—明确动机—公示论证—指导执行"的顺序,控制公信力下降的速度,重塑政策公信力。