Tsan‐kuo Chang
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4394065 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Tsan‐kuo Chang |
| NOMBRES | Tsan‐kuo |
| APELLIDO | Chang |
| FIRMA | CHANG T K |
| AFILIACIONES | City University of Hong Kong |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 215 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1986 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Continuities and changes of media construction of citizenship rights in China
Theoretical discussions about the Chinese citizenship rights suggest four distinctive aspects: rural-urban inequality, state-granted rather than natural born, socioeconomic rights prior to political entitlement, and collectivism overriding individualism. From a longitudinal and comparative perspective, this study examines how the most authoritarian party newspaper – the People’s Daily – has constructed the idea of citizenship rights and manifeste…
One Disaster, Three Institutional Responses
Public discourses over the same social crisis—the most deadly train crash in recent times in China, in July 2011—show three divergent but interactive packages across the government, the media, and online public opinion. The government dominated public discourse and framed the crash as an intra-institutional flaw. The media sought to legitimize the official rhetoric by focusing on victim compensation, official concern, and rescue. Online public op…
Managing impressions online
This study tackled the remediated notion of consensus that the state-run media in China seek to reach with the online public through using Weibo – the Chinese equivalent of Twitter – as a platform for distribution and user interaction. The microblogs of three major state media outlets were sampled and the posts were categorized. All were found primarily to disseminate information and pronounce organizational opinions rather than promote their off…
Not My Horse
The interplay between news coverage of preelection polls and voters’ assessments of bias has been well documented. Less known, but theoretically more important, is how it may play out in a media context that highly parallels political camps. The 2012 Taiwanese presidential election provides an ideal case to observe how voters’ perception of hostile poll coverage might be affected by media partisanship in election campaigns. Against this backdrop,…
From propaganda to public diplomacy
The news and local production of the global
Key to the local audience’s conceptions of the global spectacle, the marketized regional press in China has been increasingly confronted with a complex world to cover as China finds itself integrating steadily into the global marketplace and rising as a formidable power in the post-WTO era. Using the data collected from five Chinese regional newspapers in 1989 and 2009, this study indicates that the consequences of spillover in China’s growing in…
Legitimizing Ruptures of Development Trajectories
Although the Communist Party of China has based its economic claims to legitimacy on its ability to raise individual living standards, the state’s earlier approach to encouraging some people to get rich first was rendered problematic after continual ruptures in the rural economy. Through both quantitative and qualitative analyses, this study seeks to unravel the interplay between the state and media in China’s march toward modernization by examin…
A changing world, unchanging perspectives
The purpose of this study is to examine, through a longitudinal analysis, the priorities and beliefs that American newspaper editors hold toward foreign news reporting. Using the theory of cultural values as the framework, the study seeks to compare how American newspaper editors assessed the importance of factors in their selection of foreign news over time. The results show that the priorities of journalistic values in foreign news reporting re…
Selecting Daily Newspapers for Content Analysis in China
This study compares different sampling methods and sample sizes in the selection of daily newspapers in China for content analysis of the news. Results show that the method of constructed week sampling is more efficient than simple random sampling or consecutive day sampling, and a single constructed week allows reliable estimates of news content in a population of six months of newspaper editions even for highly volatile variables. The weekday-p…
Jurisdictional protectionism in online news
Because of their widespread use on the internet, hyperlinks have become a useful tool in information sharing and knowledge distribution in online communication, particularly in the realm of journalism. Their importance has received little scholarly attention, however. Against the backdrop of the sociology of professions, the purpose of this study is to determine how journalists approach hyperlinks and what they perceive to be their functions in o…
Open Global Networks, Closed International Flows
The purpose of this study is twofold: first, to propose a conceptual framework incorporating various theoretical perspectives in the fields of sociology and mass communication to identify the determinants of international flow and hyperlinks of foreign news in cyberspace and second, to test this model using data randomly collected from online news media in 15 countries. Against the backdrop of the world system theory, three specific hypotheses we…
The Global News and the Pictures in Their Heads
News as a special kind of social product requires something to have taken place in the first place, to be captured by news people and published by the media, and ultimately to be consumed by the audience. Every stage is crucial for the news manufacturing process. This study examines the triangular relationship among what editors regard as important news, what the audience prefers and what the US and foreign media actually cover. The convergence a…
Social Structure, Media System, and Audiences in China
Much has been written about the structure and processes of China's mass media changes before and after the late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping initiated the economic reform and open-door policies in the late 1970s. Many of them focused on the commercialization, depoliticalization, and internationalization of Chinese media as a result of the market economy and external openness. Little known, however, is how the audiences get caught up in the interp…
Comparing Nations in Mass Communication Research, 1970-97
The purpose of this article is to assess critically, within the framework of the sociology of knowledge, how we come to know what we know in comparative international communication research. The point of departure is the collective output of comparative international communication enterprise - the published articles in six major communication journals through which theories, methods and findings have been diffused and the cumulated knowledge made…
From the United States with News and More
The purpose of this study is to incorporate various theoretical approaches in international communication research into the world system theory and to test this model within a comparative design based on the data collected from six countries. The results show that core nations in the world system often dominate the flow of news and coverage in international communication. If an equation can be used, one core country covered in international news …
Reporting Public Opinion in Singapore
The purpose of this article is twofold: to examine the form and content of public opinion reporting in the Singaporean news media and to determine their social implications for public policy decision making. The article analyzes coverage of public opinion polls in the two most important newspapers in Singapore over a three-year span. The data show that public opinion surveys in Singapore are fraught with theoretical and methodological problems an…
All Countries Not Created Equal to Be News
Against the backdrop of the world system perspective, the purpose of this article is twofold: (a) to propose a new conceptual approach identifying the determinants that may affect the structure and process of foreign and international news flow and coverage in the global setting, and (b) within this framework, to determine the content (what is covered) and form (how it is covered) of Reuters' coverage of a major world event for a better understan…
The social construction of international imagery in the Post‐Cold War Era
Against the backdrop of the post‐Cold War world and within the framework of the social construction of reality, this paper argues that social structure, both internal and external, is a major influence on the news. Using data collected during a 26‐day period from China's CCTV and the United States' ABC, this study examines how the form and content of international imagery are socially constructed. Results show that the worlds created by ABC and C…
From class ideologue to state manager
Within the managerial perspective, the purpose of this paper is to determine the impact of China's changing socioeconomic structure on its foreign TV programming and to propose a new conceptual approach to explaining the form and content of the contemporary Chinese media system. The general thesis is that as a result of vertical and horizontal fragmentation of state authority since the economic reforms in the late 1970s, mass media in China have …
News as Social Knowledge in China
Journal Article News as Social Knowledge in China: The Changing Worldview of Chinese National Media Get access Tsan-Kuo Chang, Tsan-Kuo Chang 1Tsan-Kuo Chang is an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jian Wang, Jian Wang 2Jian Wang is a doctoral student at the University of Iowa. Search for other …
Rethinking the mass propaganda model
The purpose of this paper is to call for broader conceptual and more sophistocated methodological approaches to the study of the press in Communist systems, especially after the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Through an empirical analysis of the world view of the Chinese regional press, the assumptions behind the conventional mass propaganda model were called into question and reexamined. Using the data colle…
The World as Subjective Reality
Journal Article THE WORLD AS SUBJECTIVE REALITY: US NEWSPAPER EDITORS' VIEW AND ITS DETERMINANTS Get access Tsan-Kuo Chang, Tsan-Kuo Chang Assistant professor School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Barry Pollick, Barry Pollick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Joe-won Lee Joe-won Lee Asso…
Factors Affecting Gatekeepers' Selection of Foreign News
A national survey of newspaper editors examined how editors view the importance of different criteria in selecting foreign news to run. Results show that editors considered these factors important in making choices: threat to the United States and world peace, anticipated reader interest, timeliness, and U.S. involvement. Editors also regarded loss of lives and property as important but less so than other factors. Most editors appear to focus mor…
The News and U.S.-China Policy
Communication, Public Opinion, and Globalization in Urban China. Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication, 18
Factors Affecting Gatekeepers' Selection of Foreign News
A national survey of newspaper editors examined how editors view the importance of different criteria in selecting foreign news to run. Results show that editors considered these factors important in making choices: threat to the United States and world peace, anticipated reader interest, timeliness, and U.S. involvement. Editors also regarded loss of lives and property as important but less so than other factors. Most editors appear to focus mor…
Ethnicity-of-Interviewer Effects Among Mexican-Americans and Anglos
A general interpersonal deference explanation for ethnicity-of-interviewer effects is tested with a random survey of Anglos and Mexican-Americans using Anglo and Hispanic interviewers and questions related to Mexican-American culture. The theory was most clearly supported among Anglo respondents. The mixed support found among Mexican-Americans suggests that deference is strongest when questions deal with the culture represented by the interviewer…
From the United States with News and More
The purpose of this study is to incorporate various theoretical approaches in international communication research into the world system theory and to test this model within a comparative design based on the data collected from six countries. The results show that core nations in the world system often dominate the flow of news and coverage in international communication. If an equation can be used, one core country covered in international news …
Comparing Nations in Mass Communication Research, 1970-97
The purpose of this article is to assess critically, within the framework of the sociology of knowledge, how we come to know what we know in comparative international communication research. The point of departure is the collective output of comparative international communication enterprise - the published articles in six major communication journals through which theories, methods and findings have been diffused and the cumulated knowledge made…
The social construction of international imagery in the Post‐Cold War Era
Against the backdrop of the post‐Cold War world and within the framework of the social construction of reality, this paper argues that social structure, both internal and external, is a major influence on the news. Using data collected during a 26‐day period from China's CCTV and the United States' ABC, this study examines how the form and content of international imagery are socially constructed. Results show that the worlds created by ABC and C…
Rethinking the mass propaganda model
The purpose of this paper is to call for broader conceptual and more sophistocated methodological approaches to the study of the press in Communist systems, especially after the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Through an empirical analysis of the world view of the Chinese regional press, the assumptions behind the conventional mass propaganda model were called into question and reexamined. Using the data colle…
The Global News and the Pictures in Their Heads
News as a special kind of social product requires something to have taken place in the first place, to be captured by news people and published by the media, and ultimately to be consumed by the audience. Every stage is crucial for the news manufacturing process. This study examines the triangular relationship among what editors regard as important news, what the audience prefers and what the US and foreign media actually cover. The convergence a…
A changing world, unchanging perspectives
The purpose of this study is to examine, through a longitudinal analysis, the priorities and beliefs that American newspaper editors hold toward foreign news reporting. Using the theory of cultural values as the framework, the study seeks to compare how American newspaper editors assessed the importance of factors in their selection of foreign news over time. The results show that the priorities of journalistic values in foreign news reporting re…
Selecting Daily Newspapers for Content Analysis in China
This study compares different sampling methods and sample sizes in the selection of daily newspapers in China for content analysis of the news. Results show that the method of constructed week sampling is more efficient than simple random sampling or consecutive day sampling, and a single constructed week allows reliable estimates of news content in a population of six months of newspaper editions even for highly volatile variables. The weekday-p…
Social Structure, Media System, and Audiences in China
Much has been written about the structure and processes of China's mass media changes before and after the late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping initiated the economic reform and open-door policies in the late 1970s. Many of them focused on the commercialization, depoliticalization, and internationalization of Chinese media as a result of the market economy and external openness. Little known, however, is how the audiences get caught up in the interp…
Deviance as a Predictor of Newsworthiness
(1987). Deviance as a Predictor of Newsworthiness: Coverage of International Events in the U.S. Media. Annals of the International Communication Association: Vol. 10, Communication Yearbook 10, pp. 348-365
Managing impressions online
This study tackled the remediated notion of consensus that the state-run media in China seek to reach with the online public through using Weibo – the Chinese equivalent of Twitter – as a platform for distribution and user interaction. The microblogs of three major state media outlets were sampled and the posts were categorized. All were found primarily to disseminate information and pronounce organizational opinions rather than promote their off…
From class ideologue to state manager
Within the managerial perspective, the purpose of this paper is to determine the impact of China's changing socioeconomic structure on its foreign TV programming and to propose a new conceptual approach to explaining the form and content of the contemporary Chinese media system. The general thesis is that as a result of vertical and horizontal fragmentation of state authority since the economic reforms in the late 1970s, mass media in China have …
Not My Horse
The interplay between news coverage of preelection polls and voters’ assessments of bias has been well documented. Less known, but theoretically more important, is how it may play out in a media context that highly parallels political camps. The 2012 Taiwanese presidential election provides an ideal case to observe how voters’ perception of hostile poll coverage might be affected by media partisanship in election campaigns. Against this backdrop,…
One Disaster, Three Institutional Responses
Public discourses over the same social crisis—the most deadly train crash in recent times in China, in July 2011—show three divergent but interactive packages across the government, the media, and online public opinion. The government dominated public discourse and framed the crash as an intra-institutional flaw. The media sought to legitimize the official rhetoric by focusing on victim compensation, official concern, and rescue. Online public op…
Jurisdictional protectionism in online news
Because of their widespread use on the internet, hyperlinks have become a useful tool in information sharing and knowledge distribution in online communication, particularly in the realm of journalism. Their importance has received little scholarly attention, however. Against the backdrop of the sociology of professions, the purpose of this study is to determine how journalists approach hyperlinks and what they perceive to be their functions in o…
Open Global Networks, Closed International Flows
The purpose of this study is twofold: first, to propose a conceptual framework incorporating various theoretical perspectives in the fields of sociology and mass communication to identify the determinants of international flow and hyperlinks of foreign news in cyberspace and second, to test this model using data randomly collected from online news media in 15 countries. Against the backdrop of the world system theory, three specific hypotheses we…
The World as Subjective Reality
Journal Article THE WORLD AS SUBJECTIVE REALITY: US NEWSPAPER EDITORS' VIEW AND ITS DETERMINANTS Get access Tsan-Kuo Chang, Tsan-Kuo Chang Assistant professor School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Barry Pollick, Barry Pollick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Joe-won Lee Joe-won Lee Asso…
Reporting Public Opinion in Singapore
The purpose of this article is twofold: to examine the form and content of public opinion reporting in the Singaporean news media and to determine their social implications for public policy decision making. The article analyzes coverage of public opinion polls in the two most important newspapers in Singapore over a three-year span. The data show that public opinion surveys in Singapore are fraught with theoretical and methodological problems an…
The news and local production of the global
Key to the local audience’s conceptions of the global spectacle, the marketized regional press in China has been increasingly confronted with a complex world to cover as China finds itself integrating steadily into the global marketplace and rising as a formidable power in the post-WTO era. Using the data collected from five Chinese regional newspapers in 1989 and 2009, this study indicates that the consequences of spillover in China’s growing in…
Legitimizing Ruptures of Development Trajectories
Although the Communist Party of China has based its economic claims to legitimacy on its ability to raise individual living standards, the state’s earlier approach to encouraging some people to get rich first was rendered problematic after continual ruptures in the rural economy. Through both quantitative and qualitative analyses, this study seeks to unravel the interplay between the state and media in China’s march toward modernization by examin…
Ethnicity-of-Interviewer Effects Among Mexican-Americans and Anglos
A general interpersonal deference explanation for ethnicity-of-interviewer effects is tested with a random survey of Anglos and Mexican-Americans using Anglo and Hispanic interviewers and questions related to Mexican-American culture. The theory was most clearly supported among Anglo respondents. The mixed support found among Mexican-Americans suggests that deference is strongest when questions deal with the culture represented by the interviewer…
Determinants of International News Coverage in the U.S. Media
This article goes beyond describing media content and places it in a broader theoretical framework by examining some determinants that have been considered important in the study of international news flow. The article attempts to identify the factors that best differentiate those international events that are covered in the U.S. news media from events that are not. The dependent variable was media coverage of international events. Based on previ…
Deviance as a Predictor of Newsworthiness
(1987). Deviance as a Predictor of Newsworthiness: Coverage of International Events in the U.S. Media. Annals of the International Communication Association: Vol. 10, Communication Yearbook 10, pp. 348-365
The News and U.S.-China Policy
The World as Subjective Reality
Journal Article THE WORLD AS SUBJECTIVE REALITY: US NEWSPAPER EDITORS' VIEW AND ITS DETERMINANTS Get access Tsan-Kuo Chang, Tsan-Kuo Chang Assistant professor School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Barry Pollick, Barry Pollick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Joe-won Lee Joe-won Lee Asso…
Factors Affecting Gatekeepers' Selection of Foreign News
A national survey of newspaper editors examined how editors view the importance of different criteria in selecting foreign news to run. Results show that editors considered these factors important in making choices: threat to the United States and world peace, anticipated reader interest, timeliness, and U.S. involvement. Editors also regarded loss of lives and property as important but less so than other factors. Most editors appear to focus mor…
Rethinking the mass propaganda model
The purpose of this paper is to call for broader conceptual and more sophistocated methodological approaches to the study of the press in Communist systems, especially after the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Through an empirical analysis of the world view of the Chinese regional press, the assumptions behind the conventional mass propaganda model were called into question and reexamined. Using the data colle…
News as Social Knowledge in China
Journal Article News as Social Knowledge in China: The Changing Worldview of Chinese National Media Get access Tsan-Kuo Chang, Tsan-Kuo Chang 1Tsan-Kuo Chang is an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jian Wang, Jian Wang 2Jian Wang is a doctoral student at the University of Iowa. Search for other …
From class ideologue to state manager
Within the managerial perspective, the purpose of this paper is to determine the impact of China's changing socioeconomic structure on its foreign TV programming and to propose a new conceptual approach to explaining the form and content of the contemporary Chinese media system. The general thesis is that as a result of vertical and horizontal fragmentation of state authority since the economic reforms in the late 1970s, mass media in China have …
All Countries Not Created Equal to Be News
Against the backdrop of the world system perspective, the purpose of this article is twofold: (a) to propose a new conceptual approach identifying the determinants that may affect the structure and process of foreign and international news flow and coverage in the global setting, and (b) within this framework, to determine the content (what is covered) and form (how it is covered) of Reuters' coverage of a major world event for a better understan…
The social construction of international imagery in the Post‐Cold War Era
Against the backdrop of the post‐Cold War world and within the framework of the social construction of reality, this paper argues that social structure, both internal and external, is a major influence on the news. Using data collected during a 26‐day period from China's CCTV and the United States' ABC, this study examines how the form and content of international imagery are socially constructed. Results show that the worlds created by ABC and C…
Reporting Public Opinion in Singapore
The purpose of this article is twofold: to examine the form and content of public opinion reporting in the Singaporean news media and to determine their social implications for public policy decision making. The article analyzes coverage of public opinion polls in the two most important newspapers in Singapore over a three-year span. The data show that public opinion surveys in Singapore are fraught with theoretical and methodological problems an…
From the United States with News and More
The purpose of this study is to incorporate various theoretical approaches in international communication research into the world system theory and to test this model within a comparative design based on the data collected from six countries. The results show that core nations in the world system often dominate the flow of news and coverage in international communication. If an equation can be used, one core country covered in international news …
Social Structure, Media System, and Audiences in China
Much has been written about the structure and processes of China's mass media changes before and after the late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping initiated the economic reform and open-door policies in the late 1970s. Many of them focused on the commercialization, depoliticalization, and internationalization of Chinese media as a result of the market economy and external openness. Little known, however, is how the audiences get caught up in the interp…
Comparing Nations in Mass Communication Research, 1970-97
The purpose of this article is to assess critically, within the framework of the sociology of knowledge, how we come to know what we know in comparative international communication research. The point of departure is the collective output of comparative international communication enterprise - the published articles in six major communication journals through which theories, methods and findings have been diffused and the cumulated knowledge made…
The Global News and the Pictures in Their Heads
News as a special kind of social product requires something to have taken place in the first place, to be captured by news people and published by the media, and ultimately to be consumed by the audience. Every stage is crucial for the news manufacturing process. This study examines the triangular relationship among what editors regard as important news, what the audience prefers and what the US and foreign media actually cover. The convergence a…
Open Global Networks, Closed International Flows
The purpose of this study is twofold: first, to propose a conceptual framework incorporating various theoretical perspectives in the fields of sociology and mass communication to identify the determinants of international flow and hyperlinks of foreign news in cyberspace and second, to test this model using data randomly collected from online news media in 15 countries. Against the backdrop of the world system theory, three specific hypotheses we…
Selecting Daily Newspapers for Content Analysis in China
This study compares different sampling methods and sample sizes in the selection of daily newspapers in China for content analysis of the news. Results show that the method of constructed week sampling is more efficient than simple random sampling or consecutive day sampling, and a single constructed week allows reliable estimates of news content in a population of six months of newspaper editions even for highly volatile variables. The weekday-p…
Jurisdictional protectionism in online news
Because of their widespread use on the internet, hyperlinks have become a useful tool in information sharing and knowledge distribution in online communication, particularly in the realm of journalism. Their importance has received little scholarly attention, however. Against the backdrop of the sociology of professions, the purpose of this study is to determine how journalists approach hyperlinks and what they perceive to be their functions in o…
Legitimizing Ruptures of Development Trajectories
Although the Communist Party of China has based its economic claims to legitimacy on its ability to raise individual living standards, the state’s earlier approach to encouraging some people to get rich first was rendered problematic after continual ruptures in the rural economy. Through both quantitative and qualitative analyses, this study seeks to unravel the interplay between the state and media in China’s march toward modernization by examin…
A changing world, unchanging perspectives
The purpose of this study is to examine, through a longitudinal analysis, the priorities and beliefs that American newspaper editors hold toward foreign news reporting. Using the theory of cultural values as the framework, the study seeks to compare how American newspaper editors assessed the importance of factors in their selection of foreign news over time. The results show that the priorities of journalistic values in foreign news reporting re…
The news and local production of the global
Key to the local audience’s conceptions of the global spectacle, the marketized regional press in China has been increasingly confronted with a complex world to cover as China finds itself integrating steadily into the global marketplace and rising as a formidable power in the post-WTO era. Using the data collected from five Chinese regional newspapers in 1989 and 2009, this study indicates that the consequences of spillover in China’s growing in…
From propaganda to public diplomacy
Not My Horse
The interplay between news coverage of preelection polls and voters’ assessments of bias has been well documented. Less known, but theoretically more important, is how it may play out in a media context that highly parallels political camps. The 2012 Taiwanese presidential election provides an ideal case to observe how voters’ perception of hostile poll coverage might be affected by media partisanship in election campaigns. Against this backdrop,…
One Disaster, Three Institutional Responses
Public discourses over the same social crisis—the most deadly train crash in recent times in China, in July 2011—show three divergent but interactive packages across the government, the media, and online public opinion. The government dominated public discourse and framed the crash as an intra-institutional flaw. The media sought to legitimize the official rhetoric by focusing on victim compensation, official concern, and rescue. Online public op…
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