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Han, Boyeon, and Hochang Shin. "Inter-country relationship and mass media." Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 27, no. 2 (November 20, 2017): 173–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/japc.27.2.02han.
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Abstract This study aims to research mass media communication and multipolar relationships in public diplomacy by using announcement of China Air Defense Identification Zone (CADIZ) in November 2013 as a case. Based on importance of mass mediated public diplomacy, to examine wording and message structure, language analysis program of semantic and ego network is applied. In addition, considering the environment of Korean media, newspapers from democratic and conservative are selected. The CADIZ issue takes place in Northeast Asian region but reactions and the relations of the USA are mainly dealt with. The USA is closely connected to China and Korea and has an important influence as a consultant in the given situation. Moreover, Korean media keep monitoring Japan’s response to refer Korea’s response strategy. Semantic and ego network seem to be powerful when analyzing international conflicts. This research shows that international relationship can be a significant asset to public diplomacy. In short, analyzing multipolar relations seems essential to understand construction of related countries and seek to solve diplomatic conflicts.
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Wang, Xiaopei. "Comparison and Analysis of Feminism in China and the West: A Case Study of the 1950s." Communications in Humanities Research 1, no. 1 (December 21, 2021): 111–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.54254/chr.iceipi.2021246.
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1950 is a very special period for the development of feminism in both China and the West. The Peoples Republic of China was just established and the West was experiencing the second wave of feminist. However, the feminism in these two areas developed in different ways, that Chinses feminism is the state feminism while the West is liberal feminism. This kind of difference results from the different social environment, especially the political policy in China and the West. The Communist Party of China took feminism as a tool to consolidate socialist construction, so it launched the feminist movement from top to bottom. The second feminism in the West is a bottom-up movement for women to fight for their own rights and interests, and they use magazines and other mass media as a means of struggle. By comparing the difference of the feminism in China and the West, the flaws of these two kinds of development of feminism could also be shown.
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He, Rui, and Yungeng Li. "Media Exposure, Cancer Beliefs, and Cancer-Related Information-Seeking or Avoidance Behavior Patterns in China." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 6 (March 18, 2021): 3130. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18063130.
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This study explored the relationships between media exposure, cancer beliefs, and cancer information-seeking or information-avoidance behaviors. Based on the planned risk information-seeking model and its extended framework, two predictive models were constructed: one for cancer information seeking and the other for cancer information avoidance. A structural equation modeling strategy was applied to survey data from China HINTS 2017 (n = 3090) to compare the impact of traditional mass media and social media exposure to cancer-related information on cancer information-seeking and information-avoidance behaviors. The study findings suggest that health-related information exposure through different media channels may generate distinctive information-seeking or information-avoidance behaviors based on various cancer beliefs. Additionally, the findings indicate that social media exposure to health-related and cancer curability beliefs does not lead to cancer information avoidance; both mass media and social media exposure encourage people to seek cancer-related information. Cancer fatalism is positively associated with cancer information-seeking and avoiding intentions, suggesting that negative cancer beliefs predict seemingly contradictory yet psychologically coherent information intentions and behaviors.
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Dong, Wanjin, and Soonbae Kim. "Promotion and Protection of Feminism Creativity for Public Environment: The Integration of Ecofeminism and Public Environment." Journal of Environmental and Public Health 2022 (November 21, 2022): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/5706699.
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Each of us leaves a trace of our consumption on the environment. Take a step back, though, and consider how much influence people have had on the Earth. The Anthropocene, sometimes known as the era of humans, refers to how significantly we have changed the Earth’s systems. This is the grand view of humanity’s impact on the Earth. In this article, we plan to introduce and explain ecofeminism. Because of the natural connection with nature and the social role as housekeepers, women often have empathetic power when expressing their demands for the public environment, thus becoming a vital force in public environmental protection. Facing the public environmental forces spurting from ecofeminism, we study the dissemination of ecofeminism with the help of mass media. However, in present-day China, as pointed out by ecofeminism, the predatory exploitation of nature and the catastrophic killing of plants and animals make the fate of women challenging to control. Therefore, we study the theory of multicultural ecofeminism and public environmental protection. Finally, based on the integration of ecofeminism and the public environment, we interpret Lawrence’s famous work, Sons and Lovers, and analyze the relationship between men and women and the public environment in this work from the perspective of ecofeminism. In human socialization, ecofeminism has provided strong support for protecting the public environment, and at the same time, it has also improved.
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Parvin, Gulsan Ara, Md Habibur Rahman, S. M. Reazul Ahsan, Md Anwarul Abedin, and Mrittika Basu. "Media discourse in China and Japan on the COVID-19 pandemic: comparative analysis of the first three months." Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society 20, no. 2 (January 10, 2022): 308–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jices-05-2021-0047.
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Purpose This study aims to analyze how English-language versions of e-newspapers in the first two countries affected, China and Japan, which are non-English-speaking countries and have different socio-economic and political settings, have highlighted Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic news and informed the global community. Design/methodology/approach A text-mining approach was used to explore experts’ thoughts as published by the two leading English-language newspapers in China and Japan from January to March 2020. This study analyzes the Opinion section, which mainly comprises editorial and the op-ed section. The current study groups all editorial discussions and highlights into ten major aspects, which cover health, economy, politics, culture and others. Findings Within the first three months, the media in both China and Japan shifted their focus from health and preparedness to the economy, politics and social welfare. Governance and social welfare were key concerns in China’s news media, while, in contrast, global politics received the highest level of attention from experts in Japan’s news media. Environment and technologies aspects did not receive much attention by the expert’s columns. Originality/value At the initial stage of a world crisis, how leading nations and initially affected nations deal with the problem, how media play their role and guide mass population with experts’ thoughts are highlighted here. The understanding developed in this study can provide guidance to news media in other countries in playing effective roles in the management of this health crisis and catastrophes.
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Xiaoya, Dai, He Suliu, and Wang Tingxuan. "Performance and Control of Tobacco in Chinese Film and Television Dramas." Tobacco Regulatory Science 7, no. 6 (November 3, 2021): 5257–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.18001/trs.7.6.17.
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Objectives: China is the world's largest country in tobacco cultivation, production, consumption and smokers. The number of smokers accounts for nearly 30% of the total number of smokers in the world. 740 million people are endangered by "second hand smoke", most of them women and children. To ac hieve the goal of healthy China, tobacco control is a very important link. Reducing the number of smokers is an important problem to be solved, and the mass media plays an important role in this problem. Once tobacco is shaped as a positive symbol in mass communication, smoking will become an unhealthy social atmosphere. Then, what kind of image tobacco generally appears in the mass media and what impact it will bring to the society, this paper attempts to explore the tobacco symbols in Chinese film and tel evision dramas as the research object.
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Wang, Ziwei, Yongkui Liu, and Tiezhong Liu. "An Empirical Study on Hazardous Chemicals Risk of Urban Residents in China: Analysis of Mediating Effect and Channel Preference of Response Action Decision Model." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 20 (October 18, 2021): 10932. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182010932.
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Because urban residents do not have a strong understanding of hazardous chemicals, they cannot effectively make response action decisions to ensure safety, protect lives, and reduce property damage. This paper constructs the Response Action Decision Model of hazardous chemicals, and analyzes the mediating effect of Information Processing and Threat Perception, as well as channel preferences of urban residents with different demographic characteristics. A total of 1700 questionnaires were collected in Chongqing, Tianjin, Fujian Zhangzhou, Shandong Zibo and Lanzhou, where there are significant hazardous chemicals factories. The results show that: Firstly, Information Processing and Threat Perception have significant mediating effects on the relationship between Mass Media, Social Media, Face-to-face communication and Response Action Decision in a single channel, which can effectively promote the spread effect of different channels, affecting the ways that urban residents make hazard response action decisions; secondly, Information Processing and Threat Perception do not have a mediating effect on the relationship between the channel combination of “Mass Media ↔ Social Media”, “Mass Media ↔ Face-to-face communication”, “Social Media ↔ Face-to-face communication” and Response Action Decision, and the channel combination can directly link to the Response Action Decision; thirdly, in terms of the extent that it affects urban residents to make response action decisions, Mass Media is greater than Social Media and greater than Face-to-face communication; fourthly, two demographic characteristics of gender and experience have a stronger moderating effect for the Mass Media channel, while other demographic characteristics have greater influences on the Response Action Decision Model; finally, the Response Action Decision Model can be better applied to those analyses and research which address threat perception of hazardous chemicals and response action decisions of urban residents in China.
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Zhang, Yuting, Hang Liu, Shandong Lei, Wanyun Xu, Yu Tian, Weijie Yao, Xiaoyong Liu, et al. "Mixing state of refractory black carbon in fog and haze at rural sites in winter on the North China Plain." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 21, no. 23 (December 3, 2021): 17631–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-17631-2021.
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Abstract. The variability of the mixing state of refractory black carbon aerosol (rBC) and the corresponding complicated light absorption capacity imposes great uncertainty for its climate forcing assessment. In this study, field observations using a single-particle soot photometer (SP2) were conducted to investigate the mixing state of rBC under different meteorological conditions at a rural site on the North China Plain. The results showed that the hourly mass concentration of rBC during the observation periods was 2.6±1.5 µg m−3 on average, with a moderate increase (3.1±0.9) during fog episodes. The mass-equivalent size distribution of rBC exhibited an approximately lognormal distribution with a mass median diameter (MMD) of 213 nm. We found that the count median diameter (CMD) of rBC particles during snowfall episodes was larger than that before snowfall, and the number of rBC particles with Dc<121 nm were reduced by 28.4 % after snow. This may indicate that rBC-containing particles with small core sizes (Dc) were much more effectively removed by snow with light snow intensity (0.23 mm h−1). Based on the Mie scattering theory simulation, the relative and absolute coating thicknesses of rBC-containing particles were estimated to be ∼1.6 and ∼52 nm for the rBC core with a mass-equivalent diameter (Dc) of 170 to 190 nm, respectively, which indicates that most of the rBC-containing particles were thinly coated. Furthermore, a moderate light absorption enhancement (Eabs=1.3) and relatively low absorption cross section (MAC = 5.5 m2 g−1) at 880 nm were observed at the Gucheng (GC) site in winter compared with other typical rural sites. The relationship between the microphysical properties of rBC and meteorological conditions was also studied. Relatively warm and high-RH environments (RH>50 %, -4∘C<T<4∘C) were more favorable to rBC aging than dry and cold environments (RH<60 %, T<-8∘C). And the increase in ambient RH at the same temperature favors rBC aging. An increasing mass fraction of secondary inorganic aerosols (SIAs; especially sulfate and nitrate) and a decreasing mass fraction of organic aerosols in the environment support the formation of thick coatings by rBC. The RH dependence of absorption enhancement (Eabs) was likely caused by the relative coating thickness (RCT) as supported by the gradual increase in the mass concentration and mass fraction of secondary components as a function of RH in the ambient air. The mass fractions of aqueous-phase formation of secondary components had a limited effect on Eabs under a high-RH environment. The measured rBC concentrations and the mixing state of rBC in different meteorological environments will be useful for evaluating the radiative forcing of rBC in regional climate models.
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Chen, Yiyong, John Zacharias, and Mali Zeng. "Searching for the Center: A New Civic Role for the Central Business District in China." Sustainability 12, no. 3 (January 23, 2020): 866. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12030866.
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The central business district (CBD) has become the economic powerhouse of contemporary cities. China’s economic transition from world factory to a knowledge-based economy underpinned the development of hundreds of CBDs over the course of less than two decades. The plans promoted land use diversity and the incorporation of service facilities in the support of business function, but a rather different service environment emerged. Taking the Futian CBD of Shenzhen as the prototypical case, we examined the distribution, vitality, uses, and users of these facilities, which are largely built up by the private sector and without governmental support. A questionnaire sent to users and data derived from social media reveal that the vast majority of visitors of these service facilities do not work in the CBD and travel via the reformed mass transport system to this location. The high-quality public spaces and street environment, as well as the numerous service facilities, many of which are at a low economic order, attract people from all over the vast city, which homes over ten million, highlighting a new role for the CBD as a civic center. In contrast with the globalized business sought after by government and business leaders of the CBD, a new populist nexus is emerging and without significant support.
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Buntoro, Kukuh, Suswanta Suswanta, Achmad Nurmandi, Anang Setiawan, and Herdin Arie Saputra. "Twitter Media Activities: Virtual Activism Related To China Uighur Muslim Problems." Jurnal Tarbiyatuna 12, no. 1 (June 5, 2021): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.31603/tarbiyatuna.v12i1.4115.
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Cases of human rights violations against Uighur Muslims in China have generated various condemnations from the international community. Various forms of protest, ranging from taking to the streets, complaints in mass media, and on social media. Several countries officially submitted objections to the Chinese government, including the superpower country of the United States. This research wants to see how the forms of protest in social media Twitter analyze the network patterns and relationships between the formed actors and the possibility of a new social movement. Through the hashtag feature on Twitter, researchers can analyze networks, messages, and protest delivery distribution using the Social Network Analysis (SNA) method. This study uses qualitative research methods, data collection by analyzing Twitter media activity, which is used as a protest to the Chinese government. The data was processed using NVivo 12 Plus software. The results showed that the relationship between actors in the use of social media Twitter has pressure on public opinion in parts of the world, the network pattern that connects countries in response to the issue of intimidation by the Uighur Muslim community, social protests that are always given by Twitter users as a place to pressure the Chinese government, and created a new social movement carried out by countries that support the resistance to intimidation by the Uighur people in Xinjiang.
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Dong, Hongjie, Minli Zhou, Dewei Che, Huiying Zhang, and Adams Bodomo. "Analysis of COVID-19 Name Varieties in Chinese Mass and Social Media." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 18 (September 18, 2021): 9850. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18189850.
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The sudden appearance of a new epidemic disease in China created the need for names identifying that disease. Between December 2019 and January 2020, a variety of severe pneumonia-related disease names suddenly appeared, and more name varieties kept coming up afterwards. To better understand the introduction and spread of these names, 16 different COVID-19-related name varieties were selected covering the period from the end of December 2019, when the epidemic started, to mid-March 2020, a moment at which the term competition had stabilized. By way of big data analysis, the initiation and distribution of the 16 names across the media landscape was traced with regard to the impact of different media platforms, while the distribution frequency of each of the selected terms was mapped, resulting in a distinction of three groups of disease names, each with a different media and time profile. The results were discussed based on the hypotheses of disease confusion by name variety and management failures in absence of clear language governance at the national and global levels. The analysis of the data led to a refutation of both hypotheses. Based on this discussion, the study offers empirically based suggestions for the WHO in their naming practices and further research.
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Zhang, Liying, Xiaoming Li, and Iqbal H. Shah. "Where do Chinese adolescents obtain knowledge of sex? Implications for sex education in China." Health Education 107, no. 4 (June 26, 2007): 351–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09654280710759269.
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PurposeSex education in China has been promoted for many years, but limited data are available regarding the sources from which adolescents receive sex‐related knowledge. The present study was designed to examine the sources from which Chinese adolescents obtain their information on puberty, sexuality and STI/HIV/AIDS, and whether there are any differences in sources of sex knowledge according to adolescents' demographic characteristics and sexual status.Design/methodology/approachThe data were collected in 2001 in Changchun City, China. Unmarried adolescents 15‐19 years of age (322 males and 360 females) were included in a cross‐sectional survey using self‐administered questionnaires.FindingsSchoolteachers and mass media were identified as the two most important sources of sex knowledge. Sources of sex knowledge among adolescents on various topics (puberty, sexuality, and STI/HIV/AIDS) differed by the level of taboo associated with these topics in Chinese culture. The percentage of adolescents obtaining knowledge for puberty, sexuality, and STI/HIV/AIDS from teachers declined by topic (45.4, 30.7 and 18.4 percent, respectively), while the percentage of adolescents obtaining knowledge from television/movie increased by topic (6.7, 12.2 and 27.5 percent, respectively). Adolescents obtained knowledge on topics with less taboo (e.g. puberty) from teachers and obtained knowledge on topics with more taboo (e.g. sexuality, STI/HIV/AIDS) from mass media. However, this differs by having been sexually experienced or not. Parents were the primary source for sex knowledge on less taboo subjects. Doctors were the primary source for STI/HIV/AIDS knowledge. Sexually active adolescents obtained sex knowledge mainly from peers or mass media, while those adolescents who were not sexually experienced identified teachers and parents as the main sources of sex knowledge.Originality/valueThe current study illustrates that it is necessary to improve and enhance current sex education programs in China by recognizing and strengthening the role of parents, teachers, and health care professionals in adolescent sex education.
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Qiao, Guanghui, Xiao-li Zhao, Luqi Xin, and Seokchool Kim. "Concerns or Desires Post-Pandemic: An Extended MGB Model for Understanding South Korean Residents’ Perceptions and Intentions to Travel to China." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 5 (March 4, 2021): 2542. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18052542.
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In this study, we examined South Korean residents’ travel-related behavioural intention for mainland China post-COVID-19 using an extended model of goal-directed behaviour. To do so, we integrated South Korean residents’ perceptions of country image (PCI), mass media, and concerns about travel into the framework of the original model of goal-directed behaviour (MGB). Structural equation modelling was used to identify the structural relationships among the latent variables. The results show that mass media had a positive influence on South Korean residents’ perception of China’s image, a negative influence on residents’ concerns, and a positive influence on residents’ behavioural intentions for travel overseas. Meanwhile, PCI had a positive influence on residents’ attitude towards travel overseas. The theoretical and practical implications of the study are discussed.
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Dorsey, James M. "Illiberals and Autocrats Unite to Craft a New World Media Order." China and the World 02, no. 04 (December 2019): 1950024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s259172931950024x.
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Underlying global efforts to counter fake news, psychological warfare and manipulation of public opinion is a far more fundamental battle: the global campaign by civilizationalists, illiberals, autocrats and authoritarians to create a new world media order that would reject freedom of the press and reduce the fourth estate to scribes and propaganda outlets. The effort appears to have no limits. Its methods range from seeking to reshape international standards defining freedom of expression and the media; the launch and/or strengthening of government-controlled global, regional, national and local media in markets around the world; government acquisition of stakes in privately-owned media; advertising in independent media dependent on advertising revenue; funding of think-tanks; demonization; coercion; repression; and even assassination. The effort to create a new media world order is closely linked to attempts to a battle between liberals and non-liberals over concepts of human rights, the roll-out of massive Chinese surveillance systems in China and beyond and a contest between the United States and China for dominance of the future of technology. The stakes in these multiple battles could not be higher. They range from basic human and minority rights to issues of transparency, accountability and privacy, human rights, the role of the fourth estate as an independent check on power, freedom of expression and safeguards for human and physical dignity. The battles are being waged in an environment in which a critical mass of world leaders appears to have an unspoken consensus on the principles of governance that should shape a new world order. Men like Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Victor Orbán, Benjamin Netanyahu, Mohammed bin Salman, Mohammed bin Zayed, Narendra Modi, Rodrigo Duterte, Jair Bolsonaro, Win Myint and Donald J. Trump have all to varying degrees diluted the concepts of human rights and undermined freedom of the press. If anything, it is this tacit understanding among the world’s foremost leaders that in shaping a new world order constitutes the greatest threat to liberal values.
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Huang, Yunke. "Cause Analysis and Solution Mechanism of “Medical Disturbance” from the Perspective of Medical Prescription." BCP Business & Management 23 (August 4, 2022): 763–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.54691/bcpbm.v23i.1438.
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In recent years, the number of medical disputes in China has increased and even evolved into medical disturbances driven by various factors. This has seriously affected the normal medical order and worsened the relationship between doctors and patients. Therefore, how to prevent and solving medical disturbances has become an urgent problem in Chinese society. In this paper, we use literature research and interviews to investigate the causes of medical malpractice and analyze the advantages and shortcomings of the existing solutions from the perspective of medical practitioners. Based on this, three further countermeasures are proposed: one is to regulate medical practice strictly. The other is to crack down on medical malpractice according to the law. And the third is to pay attention to the mass media to provide ideas for managing medical dilemmas and improving the medical environment and doctor-patient relationship.
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Chen, Haiying, Wenfang Zheng, Xiaoming Shen, Fei Zhang, Xiaoping Zhou, Jialin Shen, and Ming Lu. "Occurrence, Distribution, and Ecological Risk Assessment of Antibiotics in Different Environmental Media in Anqing, Anhui Province, China." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 15 (July 30, 2021): 8112. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18158112.
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The widespread usage of antibiotics in human and animal medication has brought global concerns over environmental contamination of antibiotic residues. In this study, 16 kinds of antibiotics in different environmental media of water, sediments, and soils in Anqing city, Anhui province were determined by ultra-performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry. A total of fourteen kinds of antibiotics were detected in surface water, with a total concentration up to 479 ng·L−1, while six kinds of antibiotics were detected in sediment and soil with concentrations ranging from 15.1 to 108 μg·kg−1. Ciprofloxacin (12.8–99.5 ng·L−1) and tetracycline (17.2–225 μg·kg−1) antibiotics exhibited the highest concentration in water and soil, respectively. In spatial distribution, the total concentration of antibiotics in surface water from the highest to the lowest followed the order of urban area, mainstream of Wan River, suburbs, tributaries of Wan River, indicating that the level of antibiotic concentration in surface water is positively associated with the frequency of human activities. In addition, the antibiotic mass fraction in agriculture land and fishpond were found higher than that in other sampling sites. Moreover, the environmental risk assessment results showed that ciprofloxacin, erythromycin, ofloxacin, enrofloxacin and tetracycline might pose medium to high risks to algae and bacteria in aquatic ecosystem.
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Vildanov, R. R., and A. A. Tulubaeva. "THE ROLE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA IN THE STATE ADMINISTRATION OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA." Bulletin USPTU Science education economy Series economy 1, no. 39 (2022): 86–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.17122/2541-8904-2022-1-39-86-93.
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The article describes the role of the Chinese Communist Party in ensuring the political stability of the country. The authors note that in order to understand the specifics of the political system of the People's Republic of China, it is necessary to pay attention to the works of classical Chinese philosophers Confucius, Meng-tzu, Shang Yang. It is noted that the political system of China is quite specific. It includes a lot of different bodies, the main one of which is the Communist Party of China. According to the basic law of China-the Constitution, it is this party that is the force that directs and governs the entire life of the country. Getting party membership is a sure way to the top of your career, because in China they try to take party people to leadership positions. The article points out that intra-party relations are based on the ideas of hierarchy, paternalism, mass character. According to the Chinese, paternalism is manifested in the fact that the party tells the ordinary population whose interests they need to protect, as well as the fact that the party governs the country not on the basis of the universal free will of the people, but on the basis that only the party can know the real interests of the people. The principle of the mass line implies that the partapparat is in constant contact with the ordinary population. The task of party members is to accept ideas that come from the ordinary population to improve some issues, properly process them, and then present them to the population. The scope of the Chinese Communist Party is extremely wide, which is necessary to retain power. It is the party that puts people in leadership positions in the army, political authorities, and security agencies. The party also has a huge influence over the mass media that are published in China. It is important to note that officially the party is separated from the power structures, in practice it is not. As a rule, all the top people in the political life of China also hold high party positions. This makes it possible for the party to completely lead the political life of the state.
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Li, Zhenzhen. "Product Development and Application of Chinese Traditional Art Derivatives in the Context of New Media." Studies in Media and Communication 10, no. 3 (December 17, 2022): 138. http://dx.doi.org/10.11114/smc.v10i3.5844.
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The relevance of the study lies in the fact that relying on the development of the modern media environment, the traditional culture of China can re-enter the vision and life of people against the background of a new era, and the excellent intangible cultural legacy will be continuously transmitted from generation to generation. Therefore, it is important to delve into the traditional techniques and artistic characteristics of products to properly use the unique elements and symbols of art derivatives, boldly combining them with the cultural background and features of the current era that are being introduced into people's daily lives. The purpose of the study is to analyse the role and importance of combinations of art derivatives in cultural and creative products and to consider their subsequent development in the environment of new media. The following techniques were used to achieve the purpose of the study: deduction, descriptive, and comparative methods. The results determined that by involving Chinese traditional art derivatives, it is possible to develop more diverse, innovative products in the context of modern mass media that consider the aesthetics and functionality of the product and allow satisfying aesthetic emotions and vital needs of modern people. Derivative arts follow from the concept of financial derivatives and refer to many extended services and products designed and manufactured in accordance with culture. Taking cultural elements as a creative basis, a profit-making model that uses its potential resources develops peripheral creations and then brings them to market for sale. The high added characteristics of cultural derivatives play a role in improving the cultural taste and cultural image of the country, acting as a true embodiment of the external appearance and inner spirit, historical and realistic culture. The practical importance lies in the use of the results and conclusions of the study in the development of products that include the traditions and legacy of the Chinese people.
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Chen, Xia. "The Dissemination, Influence, and Efficiency of Jameson’s Cultural Theory Combined with Chinese Mass Culture and Mass Sports Culture in the Sustainable Development of China." Journal of Environmental and Public Health 2022 (August 31, 2022): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/6510147.
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Fredric Jameson’s cultural theory forms a crucial part of the Western Marxist theory. Jameson’s postmodern cultural theory includes cultural expansion, cultural history, cultural hyperspace, cultural ideology, and so on. The cultural expansion includes the outline of popular sports culture. (1) Content: In order to further understand the acceptance of Jameson’s cultural theory in China, this paper explores the communication of Jameson’s cultural theory in different cultural groups, different regions, and different communication channels in China based on the questionnaire survey in a larger span of social groups. Meanwhile, based on Jameson’s theory, it also reveals that sports is an effective way to achieve national stability and rejuvenation. Mainstream culture not only leads fashion, educates the people, serves society, and promotes development but also has the common characteristics of mass culture, commerce, entertainment, popularity, and media dependence. Sports is both mainstream culture and mass culture, which is the positive energy shared by both. (2) Methods: In order to understand the special meaning of Jameson’s cultural theory and its influence on Chinese mass culture and sports, this paper systematically explains Jameson’s cultural theory and gives a critical explanation to Jameson’s cultural theory, different regions, and different communication channels in China based on the questionnaire survey in a large span of mass culture and sports groups. (3) Results: the majority of readers who buy and read Jameson’s cultural works are mainly 25–35 years old with high educational background. The top three regions for the number of consumers who buy his papers and books are Zhejiang, Hubei, and Guangzhou; the top three regions in the number of understanding Jameson’s cultural theory are Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen; 41.62% of the respondents only know Jameson’s name but have not been exposed to his work; and 34.59% of the respondents have learned about his work through news feeds. (4) Conclusion: the influence of Jameson’s cultural theory on Chinese mass culture and sports community is on the rise. Systematic sorting and interpretation of Jameson’s cultural knowledge can provide support for Chinese mass culture and mass sports culture to carry forward socialist cultural thoughts.
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Qin, Ning, Wei He, Qishuang He, Xiangzhen Kong, Wenxiu Liu, Qin Wang, and Fuliu Xu. "Multi-Media Exposure to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons at Lake Chaohu, the Fifth Largest Fresh Water Lake in China: Residual Levels, Sources and Carcinogenic Risk." Atmosphere 12, no. 10 (September 23, 2021): 1241. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/atmos12101241.
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The residual levels of 16 priority polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in environment media and freshwater fish were collected and measured from Lake Chaohu by using Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Potential atmospheric sources were identified by molecular diagnostic ratios and the positive matrix factorization (PMF) method. PAH exposure doses through inhalation, intake of water and freshwater fish ingestion were estimated by the assessment model recommended by US EPA. The carcinogenic risks of PAH exposure were evaluated by probabilistic risk assessment and Monte Carlo simulation. The following results were obtained: (1) The PAH16 levels in gaseous, particulate phase, water and fish muscles were 59.4 ng·m−3, 14.2 ng·m−3, 170 ng·L−1 and 114 ng·g−1, respectively. No significant urban-rural difference was found between two sampling sites except gaseous BaPeq. The relationship between gaseous PAHs and PAH in water was detected by the application of Spearman correlation analysis. (2) Three potential sources were identified by the PMF model. The sources from biomass combustions, coal combustion and vehicle emission accounted for 43.6%, 30.6% and 25.8% of the total PAHs, respectively. (3) Fish intake has the highest lifetime average daily dose (LADD) of 3.01 × 10−6 mg·kg−1·d−1, followed by the particle inhalation with LADD of 2.94 × 10−6 mg·kg−1·d−1. (4) As a result of probabilistic cancer risk assessment, the median ILCRs were 3.1 × 10−5 to 3.3 × 10−5 in urban and rural residents, which were lower than the suggested serious level but higher than the acceptable level. In summary, the result suggests that potential carcinogenic risk exists among residents around Lake Chaohu. Fish ingestion and inhalation are two major PAH exposure pathways.
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Gao, Ya, Chen Chen, Hong Hui, Mingyue Chen, Ning Chen, Hong Chen, Weiming Zeng, Yan Wei, Zhaoxin Wang, and Jianwei Shi. "Improving Health Literacy: Analysis of the Relationship between Residents’ Usage of Information Channels and Health Literacy in Shanghai, China." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 10 (May 23, 2022): 6324. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19106324.
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Background: This study aimed to examine the relationship between residents’ health literacy (HL) and their use of and trust in information channels. Methods: A community-based cross-sectional health survey utilizing a cluster sampling design was conducted in January 2022. The sample consisted of 1067 residents in Shanghai, China. Those who correctly answered over 80% of the questions were regarded as qualified. The differences in residents’ HL and the dimensions of knowledge HL, lifestyle HL, and skills HL were analyzed based on their use of and trust in traditional media, the internet, and offline activities. Logistic regression was conducted to examine the effects of the usage of these channels on all four types of HL. Results: A total of 27.65% of participants were qualified for HL. The use of traditional media (OR = 1.405, p < 0.05) and engagement in offline activities (OR = 1.951, p < 0.05) were significantly related to HL. Disbelief in traditional media was related to being qualified in knowledge HL (OR = 1.262; p < 0.05), whereas disbelief in offline activities had an adverse effect on knowledge HL and skills HL (OR = 0.700, 0.807; p < 0.05). Conclusion: Effort should be made to improve the efficiency of offline health education, and ensure the reliability and quality of health-related information from mass media and the internet to improve residents’ HL.
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Dong, Zhiwen, Zhongqin Li, Feiteng Wang, and Mingjun Zhang. "Characteristics of atmospheric dust deposition in snow on the glaciers of the eastern Tien Shan, China." Journal of Glaciology 55, no. 193 (2009): 797–804. http://dx.doi.org/10.3189/002214309790152393.
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AbstractWind-blown mineral aerosol dust derived from the crustal surface is an important atmospheric component affecting the Earth’s radiation budget. Deposition of water-insoluble dust was determined in snow deposited on Ürümqi glacier No. 1, Haxilegen glacier No. 51 and Miaoergou glacier, eastern Tien Shan, China. Analysis of the horizontal distribution of snow depth and concentration, and flux of dust particles in the snow cover suggests that dust deposition differs on each of these glaciers as the atmospheric environment changes from west to east. Mean mass concentrations of micro-particles in the size range 0.57–26 μm diameter at the three locations are respectively 969, 1442 and 3690 μg kg−1, with an increasing trend from west to east. Dust layers in the snow cover contain Na- and Ca-rich materials typically found in central Asian dust particles. Volume size distributions of dust particles in the snow showed single-modal structures having volume median diameters of 3–22 μm. Dust profiles in the snow cover over the past 4 years reveal frequent, sporadic high dust concentrations with a large year-to-year variability, implying that dust deposition in the eastern Tien Shan is very sensitive to atmospheric environment change.
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O’Shea, Paul. "Strategic narratives and US military bases in Japan: How ‘deterrence’ makes the Marine base on Okinawa ‘indispensable’." Media, War & Conflict 12, no. 4 (November 21, 2018): 450–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750635218810904.
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Governed directly by the US from the Battle of Okinawa in 1945 until its reversion to Japan in 1972, the island of Okinawa hosts the majority of US military bases in Japan despite comprising only a fraction of a percent of the total land area. The central government in Tokyo has refused to countenance revision of the status quo in the face of increasing local opposition, including mass protests and the election of anti-base politicians at the local, prefectural and national level. The relocation of the controversial Marine base at Futenma to Henoko in the north of the island, has become the locus of opposition in recent years. Activists, local media and local politicians call for it to be relocated outside Okinawa to reduce the burden on the prefecture, while the central government, conservative national media and the US maintain that the current relocation plan must be implemented – to do otherwise would undermine deterrence. This article analyses the projection of the deterrence strategic narrative in the conservative Japanese media. The first section locates the concept of strategic narratives in a discursive epistemology, and highlights the importance of discursively empowered actors, before placing the newspapers in the broader context of the Japanese media environment, which differs from that of other highly developed countries in the way it empowers traditional actors. The main section of the article then traces the development of the narrative from the late 1990s, analysing how it discursively links the Marines’ presence with the ‘China threat’, and how it renders those who question the narrative as naïve, or even dangerous, for potentially undermining the Japan–US alliance and thus the security of all Japan. The article concludes by assessing the effects of the narrative, including potential unintended consequences for deterrence in the long run.
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WALTHER, BRUNO ANDREAS, and ARON WHITE. "The emergence of birdwatching in China: history, demographics, activities, motivations, and environmental concerns of Chinese birdwatchers." Bird Conservation International 28, no. 3 (July 2, 2018): 337–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959270917000557.
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SummaryBirdwatching has become a global pastime and a driving force for conservation. Because of China’s economic and environmental importance, the emergence of birdwatching as a mass participation leisure activity in China over the past three decades is of global interest. We documented this emergence by conducting an extensive literature search and two online questionnaires which we used to describe the history, geographic distribution, demographics, activities, motivations, and environmental concerns of Chinese birdwatchers. The emergence happened because of (1) the transfer of ornithological knowledge to birdwatchers, (2) the increasing political tolerance to pursue pastimes, (3) the increasing leisure time, affordability of optical equipment, and urbanisation of China’s society, (4) increased internet use, and (5) interactions of birdwatchers with the media and foreign birdwatchers. Of the 576 respondents to our questionnaires, two-thirds were male, about half were younger than 35 years of age, approximately 90% were university-educated, and many also had an above-average income and originated mostly from the more urbanised coastal or near-coastal provinces. Our respondents were thus part of China’s economic and educational elite who largely birdwatch for enjoyment, but also because of the knowledge gained about the birds’ ecology. Many birdwatchers have become concerned about the deteriorating state of the environment and are frustrated about the lack of government action. Within the political constraints set by the government, many birdwatchers support environmental conservation through various activities, which have yielded some conservation successes. However, birdwatching societies remain constrained by the same legislative and administrative restraints which limit the actions of other environmental non-governmental organizations, thus hindering the effective discourse between China’s government and its emerging but still strictly controlled and regulated civil society.
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Zhang, Xinyue, Dian Li, and Xintong Guo. "Antecedents of Responsible Leadership: Proactive and Passive Responsible Leadership Behavior." Sustainability 14, no. 14 (July 15, 2022): 8694. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14148694.
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Due to the massive global impact of the current COVID-19 pandemic, the call for social and environment responsibility has grown stronger, and discussion regarding responsible leadership has been aroused. Agreement on the antecedents of responsible leadership has not yet been reached, however, and most studies are theoretical and focus on the personal characteristics of leaders. In this paper, we explore the antecedents of responsible leadership behavior at the organizational and situational level, through case studies of companies in China. Based on the organizational strategy, organizational ownership, mass media, crisis, local community, and other influencing factors, we determine two types of responsible leadership behaviors: Proactive responsible leadership behavior, which involves leaders showing initiative in dealing with relationships with stakeholders both inside and outside the organization, as well as voluntarily striving to assume relevant responsibilities in order to achieve economic and/or social development goals; and passive responsible leadership behavior, which involves acts of being responsible to some stakeholders under pressure from external circumstances or when unexpected events occur, even though this behavior may go against the actor’s original intention. We further explore the influence mechanism of these factors on responsible leadership and discuss the development trend from passive to proactive responsible leadership behavior.
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Ferrier, John Adamm. "Systematic reviews in general practice: Applicability of the review “Mass media interventions for preventing smoking in young people” in the People’s Republic of China." Family Medicine and Community Health 3, no. 4 (December 1, 2015): 65–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.15212/fmch.2015.0141.
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DONG, JU, WANG JUNTAO, and Anna MATVEEVSKAYA. "CHINA'S WATER LAW: FEATURES OF FORMATION AND FUNCTIONING." Gaps in Russian Legislation 14, no. 6 (November 20, 2021): 29–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.33693/2072-3164-2021-14-6-029-035.
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The system of water law in China is built differently than in many countries of the world. It emerged from a planned economic system, a traditional society in which agriculture was the majority, and a rapid stage of industrialization and urbanization. It has its own characteristics. Proceeding from the premise of compliance with the fundamental system of the socialist market economy, the main characteristics of the reform and construction of the water law system in China are: compliance with the system of state ownership of state and collective water resources, and the introduction of a management system based on government leadership, full control, priority and regional coordination. Through gradual reforms, such as pilot projects, the marketization process will be accelerated and the market mechanism will be used to optimize the allocation of water resources. The purpose of the work. By analyzing the water legislation of China, to study the characteristics, the direction of the reform of water law and the ways of building the water law system of China. Methods. Empirical research methods, search and analysis of information from mass media, analysis and comparison of data, comparison and generalization were used in the work. Results. Through the study of the water law system in China, it was possible to identify the main direction of water law reform, which corresponds to the general trend of water law reform in the world, which is that the government assumes a leading role and fully uses the role of the market economy in optimizing the allocation of resources.
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Zhang, Fengjiao, Xufeng Mao, Xiuhua Song, Hongyan Yu, Jinlu Yan, Dongsheng Kong, Yinlong Liu, et al. "Ecological Risks of Antibiotics in Urban Wetlands on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20, no. 3 (January 18, 2023): 1735. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20031735.
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Although the ecological risks of antibiotics have been extensively researched globally, fewer studies have been conducted in sensitive and fragile plateau wetland ecosystems. To evaluate the ecological risk of antibiotics in plateau urban wetlands, 18 water samples, 10 plant samples, and 8 sediment samples were collected in March 2022 in the Xining urban wetlands on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry method was utilized to measure the concentrations of 15 antibiotics in three categories in three types of environmental media. Risk quotients were adopted to assess the ecological risk of antibiotics, and the principal component analysis–multiple linear regression model was used to analyze the source of antibiotics. The results showed that (1) the maximum concentrations of antibiotics in water samples, plants, and sediments reached 1220.86 ng/L, 78.30 ng/g, and 5.64 ng/g, respectively; (2) Tylosin (TYL), norfloxacin (NFX), ofloxacin (OFX), and ciprofloxacin (CFX) in water were at medium and high-risk levels, and OFX had the highest risk value, of 108.04; and (3) the results of source apportionment indicate that 58.94% of the antibiotics came from the Huangshui river and wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) near the wetlands. The current study may provide a reference for the risks and management of antibiotics in plateau urban wetlands.
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Shen, Ruru, Haowen Yan, Xiaomin Lu, and Qinke Sun. "Fuzzy Expression of Hand-drawn Paths in We-Map Environment." Abstracts of the ICA 1 (July 15, 2019): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/ica-abs-1-330-2019.
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<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> We-Map is a “grassroots” map for the general public and the hand-drawn paths function makes it a kind of “Personal Media” with strong interactivity. The hand-drawn paths are manually drawn by the “grassroots” public and intuitively show the paths to the destination. The fuzzy expression of the hand-drawn paths has low requirements on direction, distance and topological relationship. Compared with traditional navigation with high precision requirements, its expression is more easily accepted by the “grassroots”.</p><p>In real life, the public's perception of geographic navigation is biased towards fuzziness and templating. Taking the location of the China National Stadium (Bird's Nest) as an example, the “grassroots” public is usually expressed near the Beijing Olympic Park or by subway line 15 or subway line 8 at the exit of the Olympic Park Station D. This expression is different from the traditional Accurate and standardized navigation. Therefore, this paper combines a new generation of We-Map concept with map as the information carrier, expresses the recommended path from the departure point to the destination in the form of hand-drawn maps fuzzification and template, and explores and designs a model suitable for mobile devices.</p><p>The basic ideas are as follows: (1) Determining the place of departure and destination. (2) The expression design of the hand-drawn path is fuzzy: firstly, the projection and calculation of the fitting path, and then extracting the multi-level feature points of the facilities around the road by using the feature points extraction principle. Finally, corner calculations and template nesting at the corners. (3) The definition of fuzzification is as follows: “starting from the starting point, follow the XX road, go straight to the XX place near XX, turn right/left to XX road, and to the XX place near XX, reach the end point”. The template can be expressed as: “starting point, along the line, turn, end point”. (4) Matching multi-user and multi-map versions to hand-drawn maps with fuzzified expression. Take a case from this model: departure at the entrance of Feitian Hotel, Lanzhou City, Gansu Province, and destination at Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences.</p>
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Feng, Jicheng, Zhiheng Cheng, Hongbing Wang, Jianjun Shi, Haoyu Shi, and Shuaifeng Yin. "Difference Analysis of Disaster Types and Grading Control Technologies for Risk of Caving of Coal Roadway Roof." Shock and Vibration 2021 (April 13, 2021): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/5527614.
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In view of the problem of a caving roof along different parts of the same roadway in a mine, this study classifies the mechanical characteristics of the local instability of the roof based on differences in the rock mass media and types of damage. We determine the factors influencing the quantitative relationship between the failure height of the roof and the environment to establish an indicator system for classifying the grades of risk of the roof caving. This is used to predict the height at which the roof caves along the roadway in a coal seam through fuzzy variable weighting analysis. We also develop software for the grading system of risks of caving of the roof and draw a grading map to represent this risk for a roadway in coal seam No. III in Zhaogu Coal Mine No. 2 in Jiaozuo City of Henan Province, China. According to the zoning characteristics of the coal mine, a targeted support design test is carried out in the same intake airway of working face 11030 of the mine. The results show that the proposed classification method conforms to safe practices in underground mining. The stability of the roadway during service and the grades determined using the proposed method were consistent. This has important theoretical significance and practical value for designing support for roadways and timely reinforcements in areas with a high-risk grade to guarantee the safe operation of coal mines.
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Fatimah, Nurliza. "UPAYA BIROKRASI PEMERINTAH DALAM MENSOSIALISASIKAN COVID-19 DI LINGKUNGAN MASYARAKAT." Transparansi : Jurnal Ilmiah Ilmu Administrasi 3, no. 1 (June 30, 2020): 64–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.31334/transparansi.v3i1.881.
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In December 2019, the world was shocked by the presence of a new virus in Wuhan, one of the cities in China, the Corona Virus or commonly referred to as Covid-19. Covid-19 is a contagious disease and therefore prevention of Covid-19 should be done as soon as possible. The Chinese National Health Commission explains that the coronavirus is easy to spread, Covid-19 can be transmitted from humans to humans who have been infected with Covid-19. Besides Covid-19 can also be attached to items that have been touched by patients who are positive for Covid-19 and are close to Covid-19 patients. The existence of Covid-19 caused panic everywhere - one of them in Indonesia, in dealing with Covid-19, the Indonesian government has provided new policies and appeals to the community to overcome the Covid-19 outbreak. But there are still many people who do not obey the appeal of the government and violate the policies that have been made by the Government. Therefore this study aims to analyze how the efforts of the government bureaucracy in socializing Covid-19 in the community environment. The method used in this study is the method of literature to produce data in the form of descriptive data, words or words from individuals who are observed, then observed, the object of research in the form of the library works in the form of scientific journals, books, mass media articles.
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Wu, En, Jing-Qi Cheng, and Jia-Bao Zhang. "Study on the Environmental Education Demand and Environmental Literacy Assessment of Citizens in Sustainable Urban Construction in Beijing." Sustainability 12, no. 1 (December 27, 2019): 241. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12010241.
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In the process of sustainable urban construction, citizens’ environmental literacy is a decisive factor, and environmental education is an important factor affecting the former’s level. Therefore, by determining the environmental literacy and environmental education demand of 383 citizens, the conclusion of this study is instructive for sustainable urban construction in China and other developing countries. Further, in the study, data were collected through a paper questionnaire and Statistical Product and Service Solutions (SSPS) software version 25 (IBM Corp, BJ, CHN) was used for data analysis. According to our survey, the average score of Beijing citizens’ environmental literacy is 3.77 out of 5, which reflects the necessity to carry out environmental education for the citizen. In order to effectively measure citizens’ environmental literacy, we divided the sample population into three groups according to their evaluation scores of environmental literacy. The social demographic characteristics of the high- and middle-scoring groups showed a higher proportion of women and well-educated people. A higher proportion of working or living stability was reflected in the majority of civil servants, staff of citizen institutions, retirees, and housewives. There were more people over the age of 30, most of whom have lived in Beijing for a long time. “Green lifestyle” and “knowledge and skills of environmental protection” were the aspects of environmental education that the sample group of Beijing citizens generally wants to learn. In addition, citizens in the high- and middle-scoring groups are also more interested in “ecological science knowledge”, while the low-scoring group is more interested in “the knowledge of environmental factors” and “environmental ethics”. The survey respondents showed the highest preference for environmental education (natural education) when participating in outdoor activities, followed by exhibition place and activity, with a relatively low preference for lecture and community activities. Mass media is also an important channel for environmental education, and the use preference and frequency of new media such as MicroBlog, WeChat, and short video applications are much higher than those of traditional media such as television and newspapers.
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Torshin, M. P. "Public diplomacy of the people's republic of China in the context of post-Afghan events." Diplomaticheskaja sluzhba (Diplomatic Service), no. 1 (2022): 67–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.33920/vne-01-2201-06.
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The article discusses the particular issues of the PRC’s modern public diplomacy. It is widely known that the rapid development of telecommunication technologies in the last decade has contributed to the active informational globalization processes in the modern world. Under these circumstances, the non-state actors’ activity has drastically increased. China is a prime example of effective implementation of such activities into public diplomacy by resorting to the “soft power”, which serves as the foundation of Chinese foreign policy. This article demonstrates the evolution and main stages of public diplomacy development in China. It is highlighted that the Chinese government has designated creating favorable international environment and modernization of the country as the main task of the public diplomacy. The article also demonstrates how the highest governing bodies of the Chinese Communist party and government, as well as specialized “think tanks”, devise the general vector of the foreign policy and public diplomacy both at home and overseas; the aforementioned organizations include the institutions engaged in economic and cultural cooperation, sports and education. Thus, the delegation of devising “soft power” policy to cultural institutions instead of foreign policy oriented organizations constitutes a specific trait of the Chinese public diplomacy. The article highlights issues of China’s economic development and the historical and political place of that country in the world. The main directions and methods of the Chinese public diplomacy are thoroughly analyzed in this article. The Confucius Institute, Chinese cultural centers, mass media, educational systems and numerous Chinese diaspora constitute the major actors of the “soft power”, which methods include such elements as Chinese economic influence and initiatives in Chinese language training. The author also draws attention to the questions regarding the One Belt One Road Initiative and its place in the development of modern economy. The article also analyzes the PRC authorities’ concept of “Community of Common Destiny”, which represents a global project of establishing the new world order. The author indicates that China faces a number of problems with the “soft power” despite significant progress in this sphere. For instance, the global community has its doubts whether Chinese economic aid and trade agreements are implementations of “soft power” or just other forms of political and economic pressure; many developing countries are disapproving of the Chinese investment mechanisms.
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Tsvetkova, Natalia, Anna Sytnik, and Tatiana Grishanina. "Digital diplomacy and digital international relations: Challenges and new advantages." Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. International relations 15, no. 2 (2022): 174–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/spbu06.2022.204.
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The paper introduces concepts relative to digital international relations, including the following clusters as data/digital diplomacy; cyber security and cyber diplomacy; global internet governance; and, finally, digital voting. All these elements have come under the pressure of datalization that is the growth of digital actors and of big data analytics used often for political purposes. This paper focuses on one of the elements of digital international relations, notably the digital diplomacy. The authors discuss new challenges including digital uncertainty, fractured digital reality, and framing. Based on the analysis of data retrieved from social media by computational algorithms, the authors test these new challenges in case studies related to the digital diplomacy conducted by the United States, Russia and China in such countries as Afghanistan, Syria and Iran in various timelines. The authors reveal that multiple digital bloggers, mass-media, various entities, etc., can diminish the effectiveness of governmental digital diplomacy. At the same time, the datalization, digital uncertainty, and fragmentation allow the official diplomacy of the states to promote values through specific policy of framing discussed in the paper. Based on the empirical data, it can be concluded that the current stage of digitalization of international relations compels the states to introduce new binding agreements to draw “cyber red lines” or, equally, to maintain internet freedom that will contribute to shaping a balance of power in cyberspace.
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Potapov, D. "The European Union and China Foreign Direct Investment Cooperation in the Context of the Belt and Road Initiative." Analysis and Forecasting. IMEMO Journal, no. 4 (2020): 76–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.20542/afij-2020-4-76-93.
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The article analyses the foreign direct investment cooperation between the European Union and the People’s Republic of China under the Belt and Road Initiative. The initiative is proposed by China and is aimed at developing cross-regional transport and logistics infrastructure connecting China with South-East, South and Central Asia, the Middle East, East Africa and Europe. The author examines the history of the initiative and its assessments by international organizations (e.g. the World Bank and the ESCAP UN) and investigates the structure and statistics of the EU-China investment relations, basing on the examples of the most important China’s investment partners (including France, Italy, Germany and the Vishegrad Group countries). The discrepancy between the conditions for the EU and the Chinese investors is highlighted. The author defines and characterizes the major models of the Belt and Road projects’ development, which are used by China in cooperation with the EU Member States. The EU investors in China face restrictions imposed by the national regulation of foreign investments. In particular, the external investors do not have access to the sectors crucially important for national interest and security (e.g. high-tech sectors and mass media). At the same time, Chinese investors’ access to the EU financial markets is not limited, allowing them to become important shareholders in the EU companies and to transfer technologies. It raises concerns within national governments and the European Union itself. The national governments are establishing and adopting screening mechanisms for foreign direct investments and additional regulations to control important sectors and enterprises. At the same time, the EU Member States are developing a common view on the prospects and mechanisms of cooperation with China under the Belt and Road initiative. The EU countries have not yet reached a consensus upon the Belt and Road initiative and the prospects of the EU participation in it, so the author focuses on the strategies of the examined countries. Germany is calling for a common position for all the EU member states and advocates for using the EU-based mechanisms and platforms for cooperation with China. Such demands are also connected with the promotion of a common EU investment screening mechanism in order to protect the Member States’ interests and security. Italy is deepening its cooperation with China through bilateral mechanisms, mainly based on a memorandum of understanding with China on the Belt and Road initiative. France, on the one hand, shares the common interest with Germany regarding the need for the common EU policy towards the Chinese initiative, but on the other hand, the country is deploying new projects with China. The Visegrad Group states are forging their ties with China through bilateral and multilateral cooperation mechanisms and they are interested in the growth of Chinese investment inflows. This undermines the unanimity of policy towards China and the Belt and Road.
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Li, Jie, Qingling Yang, Ran An, Howard D. Sesso, Victor W. Zhong, Kei Hang Katie Chan, Tracy E. Madsen, et al. "Famine and Trajectories of Body Mass Index, Waist Circumference, and Blood Pressure in Two Generations: Results From the CHNS From 1993–2015." Hypertension 79, no. 3 (March 2022): 518–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/hypertensionaha.121.18022.
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Background: Early-life exposures play key roles in the development of metabolic diseases. Whether such effects exist beyond one generation remains unclear. This study aimed to determine the transgenerational association of early-life exposure to the Chinese famine of 1959 to 1962 with the trajectories of body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), and blood pressure (BP) in 2 consecutive generations. Methods: We included 21 106 F1 observations born between 1954 and 1967 (median age: 45 years) and 1926 F2 observations (median age: 23 years) from the longitudinal household-based China Health and Nutrition Survey from 1993 to 2015. Trajectories of BMI, WC, systolic BP, and diastolic BP were fitted and compared between groups using linear mixed effect models. Results: Early-life exposure to famine was associated with increased BMI, WC, and BP in 2 consecutive generations with sex and age disparities. In F1, famine was associated with increased BMI, WC, systolic BP, and diastolic BP, especially in men or those aged older than 50 years ( P ranged from <0.001 to 0.02). In F2 men but not women, the parental exposure to famine was associated with 0.59 kg/m 2 ([95% CI, 0.10–1.08], P =0.02) increase in BMI. In F2 aged ≥25 years but not those younger ones, the parental exposure to famine was associated with increased BMI (0.83 kg/m 2 [0.14–1.51], P =0.03), systolic BP (2.04 mm Hg [0.20–3.88], P =0.03), and diastolic BP (1.73 mm Hg [0.28–3.18], P =0.02). Conclusions: The effects of an adverse developmental environment through famine in early life on BMI and BP later in life may persist beyond one generation.
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Fang, Junmin, Dechun Huang, and Jingrong Xu. "Social Risk Early Warning of Environmental Damage of Large-Scale Construction Projects in China Based on Network Governance and LSTM Model." Complexity 2020 (November 26, 2020): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/8863997.
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With the improvement of citizens’ risk perception ability and environmental protection awareness, social conflicts caused by environmental problems in large-scale construction projects are becoming more and more frequent. Traditional social risk prevention management has some defects in obtaining risk data, such as limited coverage, poor availability, and insufficient timeliness, which makes it impossible to realize effective early warning of social risks in the era of big data. This paper focuses on the three environments of diversification of stakeholders, risk media, and big data era. The evolution characteristics of the social risk of environmental damage of large-scale construction projects are analyzed from the four stages of incubation, outbreak, mitigation, and regression in essence. On this basis, a social risk early warning model is constructed， and the multicenter network governance mode of social risk of environmental damage in large-scale construction projects and practical social risk prevention strategies in different stages are put forward. Experiments show that the long short-term memory neural network model is effective and feasible for predicting the social risk trend of environmental damage of large-scale construction projects. Compared with other classical models, the long short-term memory model has the advantages of strong processing capability and high early warning accuracy for time-sensitive data and will have broad application prospects in the field of risk control research. By using the network governance framework and long short-term memory model, this paper studies the environmental mass events of large-scale construction projects on the risk early warning method, providing reference for the government to effectively prevent and control social risk of environmental damage of large-scale construction project in China.
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Akhavan-Majid, Roya. "Mass Media Reform in China." Gazette (Leiden, Netherlands) 66, no. 6 (December 2004): 553–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0016549204047576.
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Stempel, Guido H., and Thomas Hargrove. "Mass Media Audiences in a Changing Media Environment." Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 73, no. 3 (September 1996): 549–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/107769909607300304.
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A national survey of 1,006 respondents found that 70.3% used local TV news as their primary source of news, followed by network TV news, newspapers, and radio news in that order. Use of talk radio, TV magazines, and grocery store tabloids was far less. A factor analysis showed five factors — TV news, radio, print media, computer media, and tabloids.
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Li, Sumei, Xiongqi Pang, Quan Shi, Baoshou Zhang, Haizu Zhang, Na Pan, and Ming Zhao. "Geochemical Characteristics of Crude Oils from the Tarim Basin by Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry." Energy Exploration & Exploitation 29, no. 6 (December 2011): 711–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1260/0144-5987.29.6.711.
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Nine marine and two terrestrial oils from the Tarim Basin in Western China were analyzed by Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry. Sulfur compounds with 8–47 carbon atoms and double-bond equivalent (DBE) values of 0–21 are abundant in the crude oils. The most abundant sulfur species in Tazhong marine oils are S1 species (80.57–85.22%), followed by O1S1 (6.95–14.78%) and S2 (0.71–6.69%) species. The dominant species in Yingmaili terrestrial oils are S1 (51.41–52.76%), O1S1 (26.83–35.27%) and O2S1 (11.97–21.76%) species; no S2 species were detected. The results suggest that the sulfur compounds present in oil vary with the oil type. For the S1 and S2 species, as the thermal maturity increased, the degree of condensation increased, and the median and range of the number of carbon atoms decreased. Compounds with DBE values of 9, which are most likely dibenzothiophenes, became concentrated as the thermal maturity increased. Therefore, the unusually high abundance of dibenzothiophenes in the Lower Ordovician oils could be related to the thermal maturity. The TZ83 (O1) oil has an abnormal distribution of S1 species, and is characterized by sulfur species with relatively low DBE values (0–7). This abnormal distribution could be caused by thermochemical sulfate reduction, and a relatively high content of H2S in the associated gases and abundant sulfo-diamantane in the oil supported this theory. In conclusion, the thermal maturity, organic facies, paleoenvironment of the source rock, and possibly thermochemical sulfate reduction have a large impact on the sulfur compounds present in the oils. The O1S1/S1 and S2/S1 ratios could be used as indicators of the precursors/paleoenvironment, and C10–19/C20–50 DBE9 and DBE1,3,6 /DBE9 could be used as indicators of thermal maturity. Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry is very useful for detecting sulfur compounds, especially those with high molecular weights, in the crude oils. This technique has potential for determining the formation mechanisms of some unusual oils and the geochemical implications of the sulfur compounds they contain.
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Ngai, K. M., and W. Y. Lee. "(P2-44) Use of Non-Traditional Technological Methodologies to Advance the Epidemiology & Management of Human Stampedes in Developing Countries: Case Series on Chinese School Stampedes." Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 26, S1 (May 2011): s150. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049023x11004882.
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ObjectiveHuman-stampede events are emerging epidemics with large unplanned or impromptu mass gatherings. They are increasing in frequency worldwide, yet little is known of the epidemiology and other characteristics that would allow for communities to prepare, prevent and properly manage medical outcomes. We report a non-traditional methodology to identify a stampede's epidemiological characteristics using news reports, social networking, and systematic search of the internet. This hitherto unused technological dimension is a useful adjunct to obtain crucial data on mortality and morbidity, improve immediate understanding of the pathophysiology of the event, and provides opportunities to develop public education to remove potential bottlenecks and improve crowd control of these preventable tragedies.MethodA LexisNexis search was followed by sequential searches of multiple internet-based English-language news agencies and the few research reports available in the scientific literature. Date, country, geographical region, time of occurrence, type of event, location, mechanism, number of participants, number injured, and number of deaths were recorded. Descriptive analysis was performed for deaths, injuries and location for this abstract.ResultsFollowing an extensive search of media accounts and research reports, a total of 263 human stampede events were identified worldwide between 1980 and 2011 resulting in 8,268 deaths and over 16,707 injuries. Major Religious assemblages, particularly in India and the Middle East, accounted for the highest number of fatalities. Precipitants of stampedes follow a geographical pattern; In Africa, sporting and political events and in Europe, entertainment venues sparked stampedes. This case series reports 7 incidents in China. All cases occurred in the recess hour of schools, when students formed a bottleneck at narrow staircases, resulting in 27 deaths and 168 injured.ConclusionUnderstanding the triggers in mass gatherings for a human stampede have been greatly aided by advances in social networking, internet and video mobile phones. Particularly in difficult environments which were previously difficult to document. The patterns identified in this study can appreciably add to community level preparedness, prevention and improved clinical understanding and management at prehospital and hospital levels.
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Greenberg, Bradley S., Hairong Li, Linlin Ku, and Jiangang Wang. "Young people and mass media in China." Asian Journal of Communication 1, no. 2 (January 1991): 122–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01292989109359534.
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Li, Li, Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus, Yao Lu, Zunyou Wu, Chunqing Lin, and Jihui Guan. "Mass Media and HIV/AIDS in China." Journal of Health Communication 14, no. 5 (July 31, 2009): 424–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10810730903032994.
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Singh, Gunjan. "Mass Media in Xi’s China: Markets Versus Control." Strategic Analysis 40, no. 5 (August 7, 2016): 379–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09700161.2016.1209911.
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Matveeva, I. Yu. "LIBRARY IN THE MEDIA ENVIRONMENT." Proceedings of SPSTL SB RAS, no. 2 (July 5, 2020): 39–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.20913/2618-7515-2020-39-45.
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Media environment, emerged from the traditional system of mass communications and enriched with new opportunities for the community, is intensively developing in the modern society. Scientists’ research shows that media defines modern existence, consciousness and values of anindividual and social groups. Media environment acts as the place of human existence and means of influencing his consciousness. The author characterizes the media environment as the social space for the library institution, reveals the possibilities of the public library as the leader of public opinion and identifies technological features of introducing information influence into the library media communications. With the development of the Internet technologies, mass communication has become open and accessible to the library community. Modern library simultaneously acts as an active user ofmedia content and as an actor creating its own media products for a wide audience. However, these opportunities are mainly used for internal purposes: to reflect the life of the institution and to disclose its information resources. The article justifies the possibility of strengthening the social position of the library by assuming the role of the local community information leader. The author comes to the conclusion, that social effectiveness of the library actor behavior in the media environment will be determined by two factors: the correspondence of the communication product to social demands and the power of information influence of the message and social consequences (actions).
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Artman, Nicholas, Zack Stiegler, Brandon Szuminsky, and Matthew Albright. "Mass media in the mobile village." Explorations in Media Ecology 19, no. 2 (June 1, 2020): 139–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/eme_00031_1.
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As a constantly connected environment via the Internet and mobile technology, the mobile village reconstructed the means by which content reaches a mass audience. To successfully navigate this environment, audiences must adjust to the new dynamics imposed by mobile technologies. This article examines mass media technologies and practices in an attempt to assess the practical impact of the mobile village within the production, distribution and consumption of media and information. Journalism is now judged less by the news it provides than by the process by which it is produced. Many proclaim the death of radio as traditional broadcast formats become antiquated, however, thanks to increased hardware mobility and bandwidth speeds, podcasts and music streaming services continue to draw listeners. Lastly, television, long a medium fixed in domestic space and oriented around synchronous mass consumption, now streams on demand to mobile devices via wireless Internet connections.
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Bjork, Jonas. "Mass Media in China: The History and the Future." American Journalism 7, no. 3 (July 1990): 186–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08821127.1990.10731279.
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Chonghua, H. E. Xu. "Structure and operation of electronic mass media in China." International Journal of Technology Management 7, no. 6/7/8 (1992): 536. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijtm.1992.025746.
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Ржанова and S. Rzhanova. "Verbal Communication in Mass Media." Modern Communication Studies 4, no. 4 (August 10, 2015): 44–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/12868.
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The article analyzes the communication process of modern mass media.
Journalism, holding true to its methods of undestanding reality, turns to the
postmodern manner of writing. Dialogueness of mass communication is
built on different levels. Speech reflects contradictory processes, which occur
in our life and are accompanied by changing moral values and spiritual
guidelines. Language occurrences in different kinds of mass communication
break up the foundations of Russian culture. A new information environment
should be created in agreement with the historical traditions and
linguistic culture of the society.
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Xi, Yipeng, and Aaron Ng. "Implied truth, complementary media practices, and successful atomized activism in China." Global Media and China 5, no. 3 (April 10, 2020): 275–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2059436420907185.
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While much research stereotypes mass media in authoritarian contexts as mouthpieces of the ruling party, we argue that successful social media–driven activism also requires the support of mass media, even in authoritarian contexts. To investigate the roles of social media and mass media on collective mobilization, we analyzed a case in Guangzhou, China, and conducted in-depth interviews to conceptualize the interconnected relationship between social media and mass media from the perspective of resource mobilization. Findings reveal that social media facilitated the mobilization of participants by providing less fungible and timely resources at the initial stages of collective action. However, it is the more fungible and enduring resources provided by the mass media that sustain the intensity of external pressures to the government. The complementarity between social and mass media in atomized collective action in China is in essence the configuration between exclusive and monopolized resources mediated by a middle-ground discursive mode—“implied truth.”