TY - JOUR
T1 - A Movement of Varying Faces
T2 - How “Occupy Central” Was Framed in the News in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Mainland China, the UK, and the U.S.
AU - DU, Ying Roselyn
AU - Zhu, Lingzi
AU - Yang, Fan
N1 - Funding Information:
Meanwhile, the coverage tended to attribute social instability in Hong Kong to external influences, such as financial support from the Western world for the protesters. In discussing who is responsible for solving the problem, it frequently suggested that organizations and parties participating in the protests should ease the tension. For example, one news article stated that all communities in Hong Kong were opposed to Occupy Central, and their immediate wish was to ask the Hong Kong Federation of Students (香 港專上學生聯會) to retreat from the scene. Another news article directly blamed Occupy Central with Love
Funding Information:
authors are grateful to the Research Grant Council of Hong Kong for supporting
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - This research applied framing theory, in combination with the protest paradigm, to the specific context of a significant protest event in Hong Kong’s history. A total of 191 news stories concerning the “Occupy Central” crisis were examined to delineate how the events were framed in the UK, the U.S., mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. The newspapers in all five media markets were found to have differing news stories about the same event or the same issue. News framing was analyzed in terms of selection and description biases, including news perspective, favorability toward the protesters or the government, sourcing pattern, and attribution of responsibility. The results show significant differences among the five markets, not only between contrasting media systems, but also between comparable ones. The frames employed in the coverage are interpreted in terms of the markets’ ideological differences. The reasons for these differences and theoretical implications are explored.
AB - This research applied framing theory, in combination with the protest paradigm, to the specific context of a significant protest event in Hong Kong’s history. A total of 191 news stories concerning the “Occupy Central” crisis were examined to delineate how the events were framed in the UK, the U.S., mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. The newspapers in all five media markets were found to have differing news stories about the same event or the same issue. News framing was analyzed in terms of selection and description biases, including news perspective, favorability toward the protesters or the government, sourcing pattern, and attribution of responsibility. The results show significant differences among the five markets, not only between contrasting media systems, but also between comparable ones. The frames employed in the coverage are interpreted in terms of the markets’ ideological differences. The reasons for these differences and theoretical implications are explored.
KW - China
KW - Hong Kong
KW - news framing
KW - Occupy Central
KW - protests
KW - Taiwan
KW - Umbrella Movement
UR - https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/7635
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85101129991&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85101129991
VL - 12
SP - 2556
EP - 2577
JO - International Journal of Communication
JF - International Journal of Communication
SN - 1932-8036
ER -