Abstract
This study compares the framing’s patterns of the Chinese traditional media and social media in reporting the incident of Tianjin explosion in 2015. Applying frame-building and framesetting theory, this study explores the interplay between online opinions available on Weibo and the Chinese newspapers in different phases of the crisis event. Moreover, it examines the differences in framing the incident between the state-owned party media and the commercial media. The results reveal that various frames applied by different Chinese media in reporting the incident. A complex interplay between Weibo, the Communist-owned and the commercial happened, including framebuilding, frame-setting, and frame-interacting effects.
Highlights
Abstrak: Penelitian ini membandingkan framing dari media konvensional sosial di Cina dalam memberitakan insiden ledakan di Tianjin pada tahun 2015
Researchers found that when reporting a crisis event, media transmit crisis message and interpret the story (Driedger, 2008), and social media have different focus in presenting the crisis compared with traditional media (Driedger, 2008; Littlefield & Quenette, 2007; Zhou & Moy, 2007)
There are other regional or trans-regional commercial newspapers (i.e. Beijing News) aiming at profit-making while responding to public opinion. These media were considered as engaging in a “tug of war” between Party and capitalism (Zhao, 1998, p.17-18). Taking this dual system of Chinese media into consideration, this paper explores whether there is any difference between Communist party media and commercial media when reporting a crisis event
Summary
Abstrak: Penelitian ini membandingkan framing dari media konvensional sosial di Cina dalam memberitakan insiden ledakan di Tianjin pada tahun 2015. Previous studies have examined the interplay between the traditional media and the new media platforms such as Twitter (Conway, Kenski & Wang, 2015), Facebook (Etter & Vestergaard, 2015), online forum (Zhou & Moy, 2007) and political blog (Meraz, 2011) Those researches demonstrate that the social media have influenced the public opinions, but how they function remains unclear, since the convergence between the new and the traditional media are blurred (Lin, 2013). Some researchers have argued that Chinese media no longer merely serves the Party, nor are the Chinese audience (Yu, 2011; Wang, 2013) Under this context, it is necessary to compare and examine the relationship between the online public opinions on Weibo and the news coverage on mainstream Chinese media in order to see whether there are any differences in interpreting the same issue. It aims to demonstrate how the media frames salience evolves on both Weibo and the traditional newspapers, and to what extent online opinion on Weibo influences the newspaper coverage or vice versa
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