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This study is grounded in framing theory to understand tones and frames adopted by media from var... more This study is grounded in framing theory to understand tones and frames adopted by media from various regions when covering Chinese investment in Africa. Relying on news articles collected from Factiva and Nexis Uni databases, the study focuses on four tones (positive, negative, neutral, and mixed) and five generic frames (conflict, human interest, attribution of responsibility, morality, and economic consequences). The results of this quantitative content analysis indicate that Chinese, Kenyan, South African, and Nigerian media reported on Chinese investment in Africa using a positive tone, while media in the United States and Britain adopted a negative tone. Furthermore, each generic frame was adopted with varying levels of intensity across the countries investigated in this study. The conclusion is discussed in terms of how each country’s economic and political interests involved in the Chinese investments debate influence the tone and frame of the news media coverage.

Global Media and China, 2021

different results to another. Through analyses of 'Big V' accounts on Weibo, and a few ethnograph... more different results to another. Through analyses of 'Big V' accounts on Weibo, and a few ethnographically elicited discussions on Weixin, Schneider argues that wider design choices and symbols within China's mediascape still largely shape what is considered appropriate topics for discussion. There is greater diversity outside of the more visible and accessible digital spaces that Schneider covers, but he openly admits this limitation, reminding us that discourses in visible and accessible spaces are often most relevant to politics. The two concluding chapters of China's Digital Nationalism returns to its central question of defining the relationship between nationalism as a technology, and contemporary Chinese digital culture. Through interviews with experts and document analysis Schneider concludes that the CPCs digital cultural governance strategy emphasises the importance of China's digital sovereignty while making digital infrastructures so convenient that most Chinese citizens cannot afford to opt out of them. The practical effect, according Schneider, is a system where the promises of decentralised network communications through digital technology is closer to mass media one-to-many communications than many digital communications scholars would assume. In conclusion, Schneider candidly expresses his concern that the CPC's approach to communications, coupled with the problematic nature of nationalism, is more likely to foster conflict and populism than cooperation and cosmopolitanism. Given events that have unfolded since China's Digital Nationalism was first published in 2018 this reviewer cannot help but agree with Schneider. At times, its breadth sacrifices opportunities for deeper empirical and theoretical reflection, but China's Digital Nationalism lays out a clear map for how we can bring a variety of specialised fields and approaches together to better understand China's digital culture. Bold in scope, and radically inclusive in its interdisciplinary approach, Florian Schneider's China's Digital Nationalism is an impressive feat and a major contribution to scholarship on Chinese media and politics.

Use of WhatsApp as a social media technology and M-pesa, a mobile money service for crowdfunding ... more Use of WhatsApp as a social media technology and M-pesa, a mobile money service for crowdfunding in Kenya are proliferating at an incredible pace. Crowdfunding helps communities organize for effective participation in social and economic development and empowerment by making sure that members of the community get to benefit from services such as access to social amenities and better infrastructure which would not have been available if the community members were to wait for the government to provide the services. This method is popularly being used at Kisii University for students’ retention and providing social welfare to students, their parents and university staff. The approach adopted by this study adopted was qualitative inductive research, where the researcher had a one-on-one interview session with creators of crowdfunding campaigns and the funders using Skype and phone calls as interview tools were conducted.

Routledge eBooks, Jul 28, 2022

Negotiation and Conflict Management Research , 2020

This article examines the news coverage of a nonmilitary conflict: The US-China trade conflict by... more This article examines the news coverage of a nonmilitary conflict: The US-China trade conflict by major news media outlets in the USA and China using the war and peace journalism framework. Role in the conflict as initiator/responder, medium difference, the press role in each press system, and partisanship of news media were hypothesized to affect the war and peace journalism practice. Moreover, the trade conflict was divided into three stages to test the applicability of the "foreign policy market equilibrium hypothesis" by analyzing the changes in the uses of sources and presence of competing frames over time. US news media were found to employ more war journalism and less peace journalism than their Chinese counterpart. They also had much lower coverage of the conflict than their Chinese counterpart. Newspapers were more likely to use war journalism than television. US partisan liberal media selectively supported and opposed the US government trade policy.

Negotiation and Conflict Management Research

Asia Pacific Media Educator

Use of WhatsApp as a social media technology and M-pesa, a mobile money service for crowdfunding ... more Use of WhatsApp as a social media technology and M-pesa, a mobile money service for crowdfunding in Kenya are proliferating at an incredible pace. Crowdfunding helps communities organize for effective participation in social and economic development and empowerment by making sure that members of the community get to benefit from services, such as access to social amenities and better infrastructure, which would not have been available if the community members were to wait for the government to provide the services. This method is being used at Kisii University for students’ retention and providing social welfare to students, their parents and university staff. The approach adopted by this study was qualitative inductive research, where the researcher had a one-on-one interview session with creators of crowdfunding campaigns and the funders using Skype and phone calls as interview tools.

Asia Pacific Media Educator

Use of WhatsApp as a social media technology and M-pesa, a mobile money service for crowdfunding ... more Use of WhatsApp as a social media technology and M-pesa, a mobile money service for crowdfunding in Kenya are proliferating at an incredible pace. Crowdfunding helps communities organize for effective participation in social and economic development and empowerment by making sure that members of the community get to benefit from services, such as access to social amenities and better infrastructure, which would not have been available if the community members were to wait for the government to provide the services. This method is being used at Kisii University for students’ retention and providing social welfare to students, their parents and university staff. The approach adopted by this study was qualitative inductive research, where the researcher had a one-on-one interview session with creators of crowdfunding campaigns and the funders using Skype and phone calls as interview tools.

This study is grounded in framing theory to understand tones and frames adopted by media from var... more This study is grounded in framing theory to understand tones and frames adopted by media from various regions when covering Chinese investment in Africa. Relying on news articles collected from Factiva and Nexis Uni databases, the study focuses on four tones (positive, negative, neutral, and mixed) and five generic frames (conflict, human interest, attribution of responsibility, morality, and economic consequences). The results of this quantitative content analysis indicate that Chinese, Kenyan, South African, and Nigerian media reported on Chinese investment in Africa using a positive tone, while media in the United States and Britain adopted a negative tone. Furthermore, each generic frame was adopted with varying levels of intensity across the countries investigated in this study. The conclusion is discussed in terms of how each country’s economic and political interests involved in the Chinese investments debate influence the tone and frame of the news media coverage.

Global Media and China, 2021

different results to another. Through analyses of 'Big V' accounts on Weibo, and a few ethnograph... more different results to another. Through analyses of 'Big V' accounts on Weibo, and a few ethnographically elicited discussions on Weixin, Schneider argues that wider design choices and symbols within China's mediascape still largely shape what is considered appropriate topics for discussion. There is greater diversity outside of the more visible and accessible digital spaces that Schneider covers, but he openly admits this limitation, reminding us that discourses in visible and accessible spaces are often most relevant to politics. The two concluding chapters of China's Digital Nationalism returns to its central question of defining the relationship between nationalism as a technology, and contemporary Chinese digital culture. Through interviews with experts and document analysis Schneider concludes that the CPCs digital cultural governance strategy emphasises the importance of China's digital sovereignty while making digital infrastructures so convenient that most Chinese citizens cannot afford to opt out of them. The practical effect, according Schneider, is a system where the promises of decentralised network communications through digital technology is closer to mass media one-to-many communications than many digital communications scholars would assume. In conclusion, Schneider candidly expresses his concern that the CPC's approach to communications, coupled with the problematic nature of nationalism, is more likely to foster conflict and populism than cooperation and cosmopolitanism. Given events that have unfolded since China's Digital Nationalism was first published in 2018 this reviewer cannot help but agree with Schneider. At times, its breadth sacrifices opportunities for deeper empirical and theoretical reflection, but China's Digital Nationalism lays out a clear map for how we can bring a variety of specialised fields and approaches together to better understand China's digital culture. Bold in scope, and radically inclusive in its interdisciplinary approach, Florian Schneider's China's Digital Nationalism is an impressive feat and a major contribution to scholarship on Chinese media and politics.

Use of WhatsApp as a social media technology and M-pesa, a mobile money service for crowdfunding ... more Use of WhatsApp as a social media technology and M-pesa, a mobile money service for crowdfunding in Kenya are proliferating at an incredible pace. Crowdfunding helps communities organize for effective participation in social and economic development and empowerment by making sure that members of the community get to benefit from services such as access to social amenities and better infrastructure which would not have been available if the community members were to wait for the government to provide the services. This method is popularly being used at Kisii University for students’ retention and providing social welfare to students, their parents and university staff. The approach adopted by this study adopted was qualitative inductive research, where the researcher had a one-on-one interview session with creators of crowdfunding campaigns and the funders using Skype and phone calls as interview tools were conducted.

Routledge eBooks, Jul 28, 2022

Negotiation and Conflict Management Research , 2020

This article examines the news coverage of a nonmilitary conflict: The US-China trade conflict by... more This article examines the news coverage of a nonmilitary conflict: The US-China trade conflict by major news media outlets in the USA and China using the war and peace journalism framework. Role in the conflict as initiator/responder, medium difference, the press role in each press system, and partisanship of news media were hypothesized to affect the war and peace journalism practice. Moreover, the trade conflict was divided into three stages to test the applicability of the "foreign policy market equilibrium hypothesis" by analyzing the changes in the uses of sources and presence of competing frames over time. US news media were found to employ more war journalism and less peace journalism than their Chinese counterpart. They also had much lower coverage of the conflict than their Chinese counterpart. Newspapers were more likely to use war journalism than television. US partisan liberal media selectively supported and opposed the US government trade policy.

Negotiation and Conflict Management Research

Asia Pacific Media Educator

Use of WhatsApp as a social media technology and M-pesa, a mobile money service for crowdfunding ... more Use of WhatsApp as a social media technology and M-pesa, a mobile money service for crowdfunding in Kenya are proliferating at an incredible pace. Crowdfunding helps communities organize for effective participation in social and economic development and empowerment by making sure that members of the community get to benefit from services, such as access to social amenities and better infrastructure, which would not have been available if the community members were to wait for the government to provide the services. This method is being used at Kisii University for students’ retention and providing social welfare to students, their parents and university staff. The approach adopted by this study was qualitative inductive research, where the researcher had a one-on-one interview session with creators of crowdfunding campaigns and the funders using Skype and phone calls as interview tools.

Asia Pacific Media Educator

Use of WhatsApp as a social media technology and M-pesa, a mobile money service for crowdfunding ... more Use of WhatsApp as a social media technology and M-pesa, a mobile money service for crowdfunding in Kenya are proliferating at an incredible pace. Crowdfunding helps communities organize for effective participation in social and economic development and empowerment by making sure that members of the community get to benefit from services, such as access to social amenities and better infrastructure, which would not have been available if the community members were to wait for the government to provide the services. This method is being used at Kisii University for students’ retention and providing social welfare to students, their parents and university staff. The approach adopted by this study was qualitative inductive research, where the researcher had a one-on-one interview session with creators of crowdfunding campaigns and the funders using Skype and phone calls as interview tools.