Global streaming media, European green consumption, perception of China before & after Covid-19 and online memes on corruption

Our spring 2023 issue features an eclectic collection of works with topics of high significance to audiences of the world.Our first original article is a very interesting comparative study of two streaming media giants of the world: Netflix of the U.S. and Tencent Video of China.Through a political economic perspective, Wenjia Tang and Mingou Wei show how both giants use audience data to prosper and the subscription-based Netflix and advertising-supported Tencent Video finally converge in developing their mixed funded business models.These strategies are essential for them to maintain market share while expanding their international markets with increasing competition from other streaming service providers.Our second article is a 27-country comparison of European consumers based on the secondary survey data from Eurobarometer.Using multilevel regression analysis, Hong Vu, Jeff Conlin, Nhung Nguyen and Annalise Baines demonstrate both individual and country level factors as well as interaction between individual and country level factors explain European consumers' support of plastic waste policy of their government and their individual green consumption practices.Diversity of environmental news consumption of traditional media and social media predict the support of government policy and green consumption practice, but not other online environment news consumption.Shuo Tang and Lars Willnat's article compares American people's opinion of China before and during the COVID-19 pandemic with two national surveys in 2019 and 2021.They found partisan media exposure such as Fox News negatively influences the perception on China while social media use, especially TikTok, positively predicts favorable view on China.Before the pandemic, the US-China trade war already set an all-time low relationship between the two countries

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