Where there is panic, the media are close by
A pragmatic study of the alleviation of Covid-19 panic by the Chinese state media
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21201346 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Qingsheng Jiang (0000-0001-8051-106X, Tongji University), Yansheng Mao (0000-0002-5684-6481, Harbin Engineering University), Zhou-Min Yuan (0000-0003-0274-7135, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 611-637 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-18 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Pragmatics and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1878-9714 • E-ISSN: 1878-9722 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/ps.20078.jia |
| OpenAlex | W4377825596 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 40 |
The widespread panic associated with media exposure is a serious challenge to worldwide governments in the prevention and control of the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, alleviating negative social emotions, particularly panic, is an urgent issue for the state media. By using the comments of a Weibo post from The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Youth League, drawing on the notion of extrinsic emotion regulation , this paper conducts a detailed analysis of negative emotions regulation through discourse strategies by the Chinese state media and their effects in the context of COVID-19. The results demonstrate that, by exploiting language strategies, the state media can arouse positive emotions amongst users, thus distract the public from experiencing negative emotions. In addition, the state media participate in online interactions, thereby creating positive public emotional spaces. This study indicates that digital platforms like Weibo, occasionally equipped with emotionalized narrative, are of significant value in the regulation of negative emotions in public crisis contexts
Anxiety · Communism · Criminology · Digital media · Linguistics · Moral panic · Narrative · Panic · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social media · Sociology · Computer Science · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · History · Law · Medicine · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Psychology · Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 2 |
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| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |