TY - JOUR
T1 - Framing NATO in China during the 2022 war in Ukraine
AU - Zhang, Shixin Ivy
AU - Liu, Zixiu
AU - Peng, Altman Yuzhu
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2024.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - This research elucidates the power dynamics of framing at the nexus of state, news media and netizens during international conflicts in China. The authors explore how three actors or stakeholders – namely, foreign policy apparatuses, the news media, and netizens – frame NATO in the context of the ongoing war in Ukraine. Employing Entman’s cascading activation framing model, they discover that the dominant frames adopted by the government, the news media and the public vary significantly between these actors. Specifically, the government predominantly uses a morality frame, whereas both the news media and netizens mainly employ a conflict frame. Additionally, our findings suggest that a new ‘peace’ frame has emerged in Chinese international conflict discourse. This study sheds new light on the applicability and expediency of the activation framing theory, particularly in addressing the specificities of framing through the non-Western lens in the social media age.
AB - This research elucidates the power dynamics of framing at the nexus of state, news media and netizens during international conflicts in China. The authors explore how three actors or stakeholders – namely, foreign policy apparatuses, the news media, and netizens – frame NATO in the context of the ongoing war in Ukraine. Employing Entman’s cascading activation framing model, they discover that the dominant frames adopted by the government, the news media and the public vary significantly between these actors. Specifically, the government predominantly uses a morality frame, whereas both the news media and netizens mainly employ a conflict frame. Additionally, our findings suggest that a new ‘peace’ frame has emerged in Chinese international conflict discourse. This study sheds new light on the applicability and expediency of the activation framing theory, particularly in addressing the specificities of framing through the non-Western lens in the social media age.
KW - China
KW - framing
KW - NATO
KW - social media
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85201278197&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/17506352241268717
DO - 10.1177/17506352241268717
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85201278197
SN - 1750-6352
JO - Media, War and Conflict
JF - Media, War and Conflict
ER -