Mass media

Playground of stereotyping

Bibliographic Data

ID12898720
AuthorsJeanne Boden (KU Leuven, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume78
Issue1-2
Pages121-136
Publication date2015-12-17
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Communication Gazette (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1748-0485 • E-ISSN: 1748-0493
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1748048515618116
OpenAlexW2320999896
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited12

China’s position in the world has grown, but reliable information about China and reporting on China is often problematic due to reasons both from European and Chinese side. This leads to speculation, creation of wrong perceptions, the situation where journalists and writers copy each other. Before turning to issues at stake in the practice of mass media reporting about China in the West, this article considers the historical background, namely the postcolonial context, the schools of thought of Eurocentrism, Sinocentrism, Orientalism and Occidentalism. It also contemplates the information flow in China and in Europe respectively, as it takes place in different cultural, social and political contexts. Against this background, this article looks into issues in the practice of media reporting and the production of journalistic texts about China in Europe, such as news selection and news value, journalists and writers, language issues and presentation and representation of China in mass media in the West

China · Context (archaeology · Eurocentrism · Mass media · Media studies · Orientalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Speculation · Chinese history and philosophy · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law

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