Yuanbo Qi
Biographic Data
| ID | 3922496 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yuanbo Qi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yuanbo |
| FAMILY NAME | Qi |
| SIGNATURE | QI Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Donghua University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9541-8220 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Selling Utopia
Research on ISIS recruitment propaganda has emphasized themes rather than how extremist participation is rendered intelligible, legitimate, and meaningful. This article examines the 2014 video There Is No Life Without Jihad, in which foreign fighters frame migration, sacrifice, allegiance, and martyrdom as religious obligations and solutions to alienation. Using Quentin Skinner’s interpretive approach, the study reads the video as a mediated reso…
“Trouble switching off”
Introduction: The paradoxical nature of the widespread phenomenon of digital device use during nightly routines before sleep is intriguing. However, despite the widespread recognition of medical knowledge that blue light may induce sleep disturbances, numerous individuals persist in this behavior. Methods: This study examines how young adults use digital devices before sleeping, drawing on focus groups from 75 participants to uncover individuals'…
(De)stigmatized Propaganda
This paper investigates the term ‘propaganda’ by identifying definitional trends across classical texts, historical documents, and contemporary academic sources. Despite growing academic efforts to neutralize the word, propaganda remains an ethically charged concept associated with manipulation, deception, and political control. The purpose of this research is to examine how definitions of propaganda have developed and what conceptual assumptions…
Toward a framework of ambiguity
Introduction This study explores the strategic and deliberate usage of ambiguity in Chinese public health policy as a governmental instrument. Methods By analyzing 128 official public policy documents and 30 participant interviews as primary evidence, this study developed a three-tier coding instrument to capture the underlying categorizations, strategic functions, and behavioral responses. Results and discussion The findings of this study indica…
Propaganda in focus
This investigation employs the analytical framework established by Braddock and Horgan to conduct a comprehensive content analysis of 79 official English-language propaganda videos disseminated by ISIS, with the objective of quantifying the thematic composition and the evolutionary trajectory of ISIS’s international media operations and propaganda machinery from 2014 to 2017. The findings reveal that a predominant portion of the videos articulate…
Neighbourhood governance, citizen initiatives and media application
Towards a Long-Term Sino-US Relationship
This paper focuses on the US-China public opinion confrontation primarily from the standpoint of how China might manage its image-building and global discourse intervention given its ongoing quest for global speech dominance. From the Chinese perspective, there are problems to be solved, including the inconsistency of the content of the world’s media, the focus on one ideology over others, the hostile nature of diplomatic responses, and the fragi…
How committed is China to zero-Covid? Debating on how to execute China’s Covid policy
China's COVID programme has created a great deal of controversy. One of the primary aspects is whether China needs to implement a strict and harsh mass control strategy to stop the spreading virus. Based on prior research on China's perceptions of its COVID policy, this article examines how China intends to contain the COVID by using content analysis of Chinese-language literature on the policy. It identifies four major suggestions to execute Chi…
Toward a Skinnerian interpretivist methodological approach for terrorist propaganda
Objective This article revisits the prevalent use of content analysis for examining terrorist propaganda in response to the methodological stagnation and aims to propose a novel methodological framework for understanding terrorist propaganda. Method Borrowing from Quentin Skinner's intellectual works and using a terrorist propaganda video as our case study, we construct an analytical framework and apply it into practice. Results The application o…
The Battle for Public Opinion of “Japan’s Nuclear Wastewater Sea Discharge”
The Japanese government’s decision to drain nuclear waste into the sea from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which is set to begin in 2023, could stymie geopolitical cooperation and collaboration, as well as the risk of radioactive elements in the wastewater having an incalculable impact on the planet’s ecology and human society. Using qualitative content analysis, this article evaluates the history of the Japanese nuclear wastewater di…
Illuminating terror
This paper sheds light upon ISIS global-level media operations based on an empirical analysis of 79 official English-language videos using the Braddock and Horgan’s analytical guideline for content analysis. This study results in a quantifiable assessment of videos based on their release dates, language, media centres, duration, musical arrangement, and many other production characteristics, and concludes that ISIS has created a highly sophistica…
The language of terror
This study provides an empirical analysis of 79 official ISIS English-language videos and uses Quentin Skinner’s analytical approach to examine the prevalence of and changes in the speech acts used in the videos. The results show that directive, expressive, and assertive were the most common classes of speech acts and that threatening speech acts were featured most prominently. This study concludes that the fundamental semantic intention of the v…
Illuminating terror
This paper sheds light upon ISIS global-level media operations based on an empirical analysis of 79 official English-language videos using the Braddock and Horgan’s analytical guideline for content analysis. This study results in a quantifiable assessment of videos based on their release dates, language, media centres, duration, musical arrangement, and many other production characteristics, and concludes that ISIS has created a highly sophistica…
Toward a Skinnerian interpretivist methodological approach for terrorist propaganda
Objective This article revisits the prevalent use of content analysis for examining terrorist propaganda in response to the methodological stagnation and aims to propose a novel methodological framework for understanding terrorist propaganda. Method Borrowing from Quentin Skinner's intellectual works and using a terrorist propaganda video as our case study, we construct an analytical framework and apply it into practice. Results The application o…
The Battle for Public Opinion of “Japan’s Nuclear Wastewater Sea Discharge”
The Japanese government’s decision to drain nuclear waste into the sea from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which is set to begin in 2023, could stymie geopolitical cooperation and collaboration, as well as the risk of radioactive elements in the wastewater having an incalculable impact on the planet’s ecology and human society. Using qualitative content analysis, this article evaluates the history of the Japanese nuclear wastewater di…
Illuminating terror
This paper sheds light upon ISIS global-level media operations based on an empirical analysis of 79 official English-language videos using the Braddock and Horgan’s analytical guideline for content analysis. This study results in a quantifiable assessment of videos based on their release dates, language, media centres, duration, musical arrangement, and many other production characteristics, and concludes that ISIS has created a highly sophistica…
The language of terror
This study provides an empirical analysis of 79 official ISIS English-language videos and uses Quentin Skinner’s analytical approach to examine the prevalence of and changes in the speech acts used in the videos. The results show that directive, expressive, and assertive were the most common classes of speech acts and that threatening speech acts were featured most prominently. This study concludes that the fundamental semantic intention of the v…
The Battle for Public Opinion of “Japan’s Nuclear Wastewater Sea Discharge”
The Japanese government’s decision to drain nuclear waste into the sea from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which is set to begin in 2023, could stymie geopolitical cooperation and collaboration, as well as the risk of radioactive elements in the wastewater having an incalculable impact on the planet’s ecology and human society. Using qualitative content analysis, this article evaluates the history of the Japanese nuclear wastewater di…
Neighbourhood governance, citizen initiatives and media application
Towards a Long-Term Sino-US Relationship
This paper focuses on the US-China public opinion confrontation primarily from the standpoint of how China might manage its image-building and global discourse intervention given its ongoing quest for global speech dominance. From the Chinese perspective, there are problems to be solved, including the inconsistency of the content of the world’s media, the focus on one ideology over others, the hostile nature of diplomatic responses, and the fragi…
How committed is China to zero-Covid? Debating on how to execute China’s Covid policy
China's COVID programme has created a great deal of controversy. One of the primary aspects is whether China needs to implement a strict and harsh mass control strategy to stop the spreading virus. Based on prior research on China's perceptions of its COVID policy, this article examines how China intends to contain the COVID by using content analysis of Chinese-language literature on the policy. It identifies four major suggestions to execute Chi…
Toward a Skinnerian interpretivist methodological approach for terrorist propaganda
Objective This article revisits the prevalent use of content analysis for examining terrorist propaganda in response to the methodological stagnation and aims to propose a novel methodological framework for understanding terrorist propaganda. Method Borrowing from Quentin Skinner's intellectual works and using a terrorist propaganda video as our case study, we construct an analytical framework and apply it into practice. Results The application o…
Propaganda in focus
This investigation employs the analytical framework established by Braddock and Horgan to conduct a comprehensive content analysis of 79 official English-language propaganda videos disseminated by ISIS, with the objective of quantifying the thematic composition and the evolutionary trajectory of ISIS’s international media operations and propaganda machinery from 2014 to 2017. The findings reveal that a predominant portion of the videos articulate…
Toward a framework of ambiguity
Introduction This study explores the strategic and deliberate usage of ambiguity in Chinese public health policy as a governmental instrument. Methods By analyzing 128 official public policy documents and 30 participant interviews as primary evidence, this study developed a three-tier coding instrument to capture the underlying categorizations, strategic functions, and behavioral responses. Results and discussion The findings of this study indica…
Selling Utopia
Research on ISIS recruitment propaganda has emphasized themes rather than how extremist participation is rendered intelligible, legitimate, and meaningful. This article examines the 2014 video There Is No Life Without Jihad, in which foreign fighters frame migration, sacrifice, allegiance, and martyrdom as religious obligations and solutions to alienation. Using Quentin Skinner’s interpretive approach, the study reads the video as a mediated reso…
“Trouble switching off”
Introduction: The paradoxical nature of the widespread phenomenon of digital device use during nightly routines before sleep is intriguing. However, despite the widespread recognition of medical knowledge that blue light may induce sleep disturbances, numerous individuals persist in this behavior. Methods: This study examines how young adults use digital devices before sleeping, drawing on focus groups from 75 participants to uncover individuals'…
(De)stigmatized Propaganda
This paper investigates the term ‘propaganda’ by identifying definitional trends across classical texts, historical documents, and contemporary academic sources. Despite growing academic efforts to neutralize the word, propaganda remains an ethically charged concept associated with manipulation, deception, and political control. The purpose of this research is to examine how definitions of propaganda have developed and what conceptual assumptions…
Political science (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · China (5 works) · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Corporate governance (3 works) · Economics (3 works)