The advent of the social media era has broadened people's sources of information and broken the monopoly of traditional media as the "gatekeepers". With the development of multimedia technology and the emergence of fragmented and quick reading habits, video-based social media has increasingly become a new forum for information intake for global users and a new battleground for international communication. This paper conducted a content analysis and semantic network analysis on 387730 China-related videos posted on YouTube from 2019-2021, revealing the types, temporal changes, and cross-linguistic differences of China-related sub-topics on overseas video-based social media. The results of the second and third levels of agenda-setting analysis show that while other types of channels are closely linked in their construction of China's image, media channels present relatively independent agendas and are not well integrated into the YouTube opinion field. The study makes a theoretical contribution to the integration of international communication theory and agenda-setting theory. It innovatively compares the second- and third- level agenda-setting effects and proposes specific strategies for China on how to expand video channels for international communication.

This study aims to explore the public’s perception, assessment and use of Generative Artificial Intelligence in human-computer interaction. With the help of science communication theory and the AIDUA research framework, and structural equation modeling analysis of 1805 sample data, the study deeply explores the factors that form the public’s multidimensional cognitive attitudes towards Generative Artificial Intelligence, as well as the paths that influence the public’s segmented content production behaviors. The study finds that the public’s cognition, assessment and use of generative AI take place in a context of intertwined and Interco structed technological imagination and technological practice. In the primary assessment stage, the public’s technological outlook is shaped by peripheral, front-end factors, including an individual’s optimistic technological disposition, prior technological experiences, and the influence of their local community. These elements drive their perceptions and practical engagement with GAI. In the subsequent evaluation stage, the public’s understanding of GAI’s usage, advantages, and potential risks, informed by their own technological activities, gives rise to a complex cognitive attitude that encompasses both favorable and unfavorable elements. Ultimately, at the behavioral outcome stage, these multidimensional cognitive attitudes significantly impact the public's intricate content creation decisions.

Research on memory practices has richly discussed representational and archival memory practices, but has not yet fully analyzed imaginative, non-representational and affective memory practices. This paper analyzes three types of affective mnemonic imagination of Xiami Refugees’ “difficulties” and the related affective nostalgic connotations. The mnemonic imagination of daily recommendations demonstrates the affective experience of flipped music discovery and a mediated sense of being-in-the-world. The mnemonic imagination of genre labeling integrates a nonhuman- centered world imagery in the recollection of post-rock and ambient music. The mnemonic imagination of playlist and music library demonstrates the affective connection of individual, community, and the platform in the construction of collective vernacular music archiving as well as the public value behind cultural heritage. These three kinds of emotional mnemonic imagination are the momentum of Xiami Refugee’s affective nostalgia. What underneath the affective nostalgia of “No home to go to, and no world to be in” is the ethics of hope: clarifying people’s longing for online public music life, reflecting on the precarity of mediated being-in-the-world with three strategies to cope with it, relying on residuals of body memory and affective memory to re-explore relational connection with multiple bodies.

Mass media has played an important role in shaping and continuously reinforcing the “ideal body” through selectively presenting certain types of appearances and bodies. In the age of social media, pictures, videos and texts about appearance and body shape are also featured on various platforms, explicitly or implicitly influencing individuals’ perception of body image. Considering the ubiquity of body image content on social media and its negative impacts on individuals and on society, this study focused on Xiaohongshu APP and explored how body pictures, comments and sex affected negative emotions, inspiration and social comparison based on gender differences theorizing and social comparison theory. By adopting a 2 (participant sex: male vs. female) ×2 (commentator sex: male vs. female) ×2 (comment content: attainable vs. unattainable) between- subject factorial design, an online experiment (N = 292) was conducted. The results showed that, after controlling for social comparison tendency and body mass index, women experienced more negative emotions than men; attainable comments elicited more inspiration and less negative emotion than unattainable comments. Same-sex comments elicited more social comparisons than opposite-sex comments. For female participants, reading attainable comments written by female elicited the highest level of inspiration. While for male participants, reading unattainable comments written by female elicited the lowest level of inspiration. Implications were discussed in terms of gender differences and social comparison.

As AI social chatbots are seen as human communicators, it is crucial to understand the problems of gender bias in their interactions with humans. Using the method of conversation test, this paper designs a series of questions for testing gender bias of robots and to test the gender bias of three mainstream social chatbots in China. The interaction texts are analyzed through qualitative coding analysis.The results indicate that social chatbots exhibit significant gender bias in self- perception of gender, gender stereotypes, gender equality, and response to gender harassment, which are unrelated to the male and female gender roles of the social chatbots themselves. The gender bias of social chatbots as products of human-computer interaction technology, they are constructed by user participation, dialog system technical support, technology companies and program developers. The result is that AI, as represented by social chatbots, replicates and reinforces the construct power of gender bias in the gender culture of human society in learning and imitation.

Currently, entertainment-oriented expressions are gradually occupying the public sphere, and it seems to have become a consensus that communication effects can be enhanced by means of entertainment. However, further research is needed to examine whether entertainment will necessarily enhance communication effects. Built on the elaboration likelihood model and consistency theory, this study explores how topics and media attributes moderate the influence of entertainment on the number of likes, an important indicator of the communication effect, by content analyzing 467 anti-fraud short videos on Douyin. The results show that preventive education and unveiling scam information inhibited the positive effect of entertainment on the number of likes, but case description and property loss information strengthened the positive effect of entertainment on the number of likes. The use of entertainment in self-media significantly boosted the number of likes, and this effect was not affected by any type of information. However, the number of likes received by official media was not affected by entertainment. This study not only provides strategies on how to use entertainment techniques for public communication, but also reveals the boundaries of the effect of entertainment on communication effects, shedding new insights on the relationship between audiences and media in this era of pan-entertainment.

There is an extensive use of the words ‘Kommunikation’ (communication) and ‘Verkehr’ (intercourse) in Marx’s Das Capital and its manuscripts. Marx uses these two words in many cases include both the material dimension of transport and the mental dimension of message passing, telegraphic exchanging, interpersonal communication and relationship building, etc. Based on the second edition of Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA2), we have checked all the two words and the related word ‘Transport’ (including derivatives and compounds), in which a total of 1,213 words are compared with the existing Chinese translations of Das Kapital and its manuscripts of about 12 million words. We made a variety of comparative tables and wrote an analysis about 500,000 words. It is confirmed that a considerable number of ‘Kommunikation’ and ‘Verkehr’ are translated as ‘transportation’ in chinese, whereas ‘transportation’ in contemporary Chinese mainly refers to trains, ships and other means of transport, which inadvertently causes Marx's rich view of communication to be obscured. So we make a comprehensive analysis of this situation from five aspects in this paper, and endeavour to return to Marx’s original meaning.

This study redefines the concept of digital hoarding from the perspective of communication and explores the psychological motivation associated with digital hoarding among young people through in-depth interviews. The research found that digital content hoarded by youth groups on social platforms pointed to “useful” self-optimization practices and “interesting” digital experience practices, the former stems from anxiety about coping with the dual performance of social space and real-life in the rat race, while the latter points to the need for positive emotional energy. We believe that the current widespread digital hoarding among young people is a kind of passive performance-oriented practice in the form of compliance and action laziness, and its psychological drive is the superposition effect of auto-exploitation and allo-exploitation, it can also be seen as a swaying practice of “enterprising lying flat” under the shadow of utilitarianism, which reflects the inner contradictions in the feelings and behaviors of the youth group. We need to be alert to the “suspension” mentality behind digital hoarding. Digital hoarding has the potential to magnify the risks of digital practices getting off track with reality. Beyond this case study, we need to continue to reflect on how the practice of negative-performancism based digital hoarding can address and whitewash the structuralism dilemmas of today’s society.

Health information avoidance behavior is a vital interfering factor in health communication among the elderly, while previous studies have rarely investigated the influencing paths on it. Based on the SOR theory, this study explored the mechanism of health information avoidance behavior among the elderly. A total of 465 older adults in China were recruited to participate in this survey. SEM shows that perceived hazard characteristics, negative affective response, and weak channel beliefs were positively associated with health information avoidance behavior. Furthermore, negative information characteristics, salience, cognitive dissonance, and social support were associated with health information avoidance behavior through the above three variables in the stage of organism. Additionally, fsQCA shows that there were three main configurations for health information avoidance behavior, including externally-driven avoidance with weak channel beliefs and the absence of social support as core conditions, factually-driven avoidance with negative information characteristics and salience as core conditions as well as emotionally-driven avoidance with negative affective response and negative information characteristics as core conditions. The study not only examines the pathways among factors influencing health information avoidance behavior in the elderly, but also verifies configuration effects of these factors, which provides theoretical and practical implications for improving geriatric education and risk management in public health.

As a “social factory” implementation space, short video/live streaming replicates and produces specific masculinities of social life in particular scenarios of digital communication, then symbolizes and characterizes them to serve the purpose of profits. This paper studies the male anchors in Kuaishou and their cultural production through digital ethnography and discusses the connection and tension between the bottom life, the performance of Jianghu culture, the governance of the state and the platform in the process of the diachronic transformation of masculinity discourse from “shehuirener” to “jingshen lad”. By analyzing the relationship between the replication and production of masculinities, short videos/live streaming, and consumer communication in the virtual world, we aim to glimpse and reveal a corner of the practice and cultural reproduction of bottom men and masculinities, in order to better understand contemporary Chinese society in the context of digital fission.

Different from the mainstream framework that focuses on the examination of conflicts between platform companies and workers, this study turns its attention to the non-mainstream group in the digital gig economy –“Zhinv”(needlework women), that is, those who use platform infrastructure to engage in textile gig work. Drawing on online ethnography, in-depth interviews, and survey, this study found that “Zhinv” are composed of women with different backgrounds and skill levels. They have developed complex strategies and double-encoded manual labor and platform infrastructure to form an informal economic network that is both flexible and resilient. Starting from the labor and organizational practices of “Zhinv”, the study further discusses how Zhinv digitalized the traditional textile gig work by making use of the platform infrastructure, and develops an imaginary of living labor based on their flexible strategies. Furthermore, a historical comparative perspective is introduced to connect the historical relationship between women and coding and its realistic paradoxes. This study hopes to provide empirical observations through the case study, supplement the gender perspective of the gig economy, and offer a more theoretically extensible vision for mapping aspects of China’s gig economy.

Mass media used to quantify public opinion through poll survey; nowadays, Weibo Hot Search has increasingly been considered as the barometer of public opinion. Drawing on the public opinion infrastructures model, this article uses the methods of text analysis, interview, and content analysis to investigate how Hot Search defines and measures public opinion and how it is framed and interpreted by the mass media. We find that Hot Search had combined “the aggregation of scattered individuals’ search traces” and “the engagement and communication between the publics” since the adjustment of the trending rules in 2018. While the former is individual, private, and egalitarian, the latter is relational, public, and hierarchical. This signifies a shift in logic from “one person, one vote” to “wise public opinion prioritized”. The media frames Hot Search as the synonym of public opinion, with the terms “rocketed to” and “top one” most frequently used as the benchmarks to evaluate the public response, thus legitimizing the knowledge logic of trending algorithms. This finding contributes to revising the previous conclusion, which held that “the party media held a critical attitude towards algorithms”. The future research could take more concrete contexts where “people and algorithms meet” into account.

In Kittler’s view, spoken language is a means for gender distinction, whereas the typewriter is a medium for gender neutrality. By inverting the gender of writing, the typewriter has brought about a de-gendered approach to writing, reversing the material base of discourse networks. As a result, traditional gender metaphors have vanished. Kittler analyzed the changes in the role and status of women in literary circulation between the 1800 and 1900 discourse networks using the theories of Foucault and Lacan. The mother, as an abstract spiritual metaphor, is excluded from the real production process of the 1800 discourse network and is in both “input” and “output” positions in the 1800 discourse network. In the 1900 discourse network, the typewriter caused the collapse of the male monopoly on writing, and women began to enter as secretaries and typists, occupying the core of text processing and production. Although Kittler is not a feminist, his research on women based on media materiality and discourse networks has also provided new insights and contributed new theoretical perspectives and ideas to feminism.

Drawing on the perspective of digital curation, this article analyzes the life trajectories of several short videos widely circulated during the Wuhan lockdown to explore the making of digital iconic events and the performing of COVID-19 and its memories. The comparative analysis of multiple cases reveals that the social life of digital iconic events covers three interpretive phases, i.e., circulation, domestication, and canonization. In their multi-modal memory practices, social media users and institutional media mobilize a wide variety of digital curation strategies to create copies or variants of the short videos, extend or reverse the performance scenarios, amplify or transform the emotions of performers and the audience, and integrate them into the grand narrative. Eventually, some short videos became fleeting moments, while others were etched into public memory with a “moving” tone.

Digital game is an open symbolic field and playing digital game is a creative signifying practice. By focusing on the self-presentation and emotional narrative of gamer who is the main action subject of meaning construction in the game world and through semiotic analysis and semi- structured interviews, it is suggested that the gamer trend to establish the “transitional self” by avatar identification and objectification as well as construct the interactive subjectivity of “social self ” by interactive action and meaning sharing. Furthermore, they can shape collective identity and “cultural self ”by community symbol co-creation and interaction rituals and form a “right-subjectivity” to resist digital capitalism in the real-time or indirect symbolic struggle and feedback. By using and creating symbols, gamers not only promote the development of the game world, but also construct and evolve their self-concepts , social relations, and group identity.

Considering the universal connection in the digital association today, social media users seek a sense of self/private boundaries in an ever-expanding public space. This study focuses on the alternative account (xiaohao) in Weibo using by the young groups and the new relationship situation and new self-practice based on it. The study found that the user's personal emotional work based on xiaohao can effectively regulate and alleviate the self-tension and emotional dilemma in real life. In this process, the self, identification and identity realize the flow and reconstruction between the communication law of traditional Chinese relationship orientation and the increasingly prominent individual will, the situation also moves from the situation re-separation to the creation of new reality situation; This new self-reorganization method is unexplicable to the separated self in the network and the suppressed self in the reality, and the creation of its realistic situation also endows the realistic role and the social-self with the vitality of new individual meaning, reflecting the subjective individual will and creative actions of young people today.

Death causes the disappearance of the body, but the media preserves a huge number of user traces, triggering a new issue of the presence of the dead, and existential media. This study conducted in-depth interviews with 15 bereaved individuals, analyzing the differences in memory storage and emotional arousal between digital and physical objects, and explore the role of the media as a digital wizard that can connect the dead and communicate between life and death. The study has found that the digital remains are pervasive, fluid, and linked. The combination of digital remains, media logic and algorithm recommendations create a static glow, intrusive culture of death, which inevitably leads to individuals encountering information about the dead and triggering memories. Digital objects have a contradiction between immortality and fragility. When the dead's information is detached from their native device and uploaded to the cloud, the authenticity of digital memory is also erased. In the digital age, the preservation of digital traces has become an important decision related to the survival of digital life and emotional bonds.

This article selects innovative journalism papers from nearly 30 Chinese academic journals (including Hong Kong and Taiwan) in 2023, focusing on research issues, perspectives, and argumentation methods. It examines news theory and independent knowledge systems, multidimensional narratives of news texts, reconstruction of news conventions in the context of digital media, encounters and avoidance of news users, news practitioners in field practice and cognitive frameworks, news innovation and factual verification Ten topics, including the timeliness of news under the logic of accelerationism, the integration of human technology in news production, research on news systems and policies, and research on news history, outline the knowledge landscape of Chinese journalism in the past year. Research has found that the main characteristics of China’s journalism research in 2023 are presented in the following three aspects: firstly, Chinese journalism research is gradually forming a relatively stable and dynamically updated topic group, especially the open theoretical dialogue and knowledge accumulation trend between news practitioners and news reception research. Secondly, in the current era where digital technology has been disenchanted from the news industry, researchers have begun to more consciously observe the new possibilities of constructing local news theories from a comparative perspective. News conventions, news timeliness, and factual verification have become more theoretical oriented empirical research topics in the past year. Thirdly, classic research topics and paths are constantly revisited, and in the context of digital narrative, relatively static news text research has regained vitality. News history research has returned to topics such as newspaper public opinion and the professionalization of the newspaper industry, and continues to be deeply cultivated.

To use the current academic trendy word “turn,” we witness an “auditory turn” in anthropology and an “anthropological turn” in sound studies. This article is set to contextualize and thread fields of sensory anthropology, auditory culture and sound studies. Through rehearsing two sets of academic debates, I introduce and analyze two theoretical paradigms in auditory culture studies, sound studies and sensory anthropology. Furthermore, I propose the notion that I call “acoustic milieus” to form a critical dialogue with “soundscape,” a classical but problematic notion in sound studies and auditory culture studies. Acoustic milieus consider sound as medium of understanding existential situations and of ecological thinking.

In this paper, 113 studies were selected from 23 Chinese academic journals (including Hong Kong and Taiwan) in 2023, and the selection criteria were mainly concerned with the articles’ sense of problem, realistic concern, empirical vision and thinking method. In the end, eleven topics, including COVID-19 and health communication, human-computer interaction in the age of intelligence, social significance of technology, digital connections and interactions, privacy issues in the digital age, the history and development of platforms, media materiality and infrastructures, media theories, media cultures, media-family interactions, and the politics of mediatization, are selected to present a picture of the knowledge of Chinese communication in the past year.

In Western media trust research, content trust (audience's trust in news content) has become almost the only connotation of media trust, which later has been absorbed by Chinese researchers, resulting a systematic neglect of the state in an empirical way. Considering such deficiency in knowledge production, the essential goal of this paper is to incorporate institutional-based trust (audience’s trust in the media institution, referring to the relevant regulations, policies and other formal institutions formulated by the state) into the conceptual connotation of media trust as a latitude of equal importance to content trust, and to promote the localization of media trust research. To this end, this paper discusses the validity problem that may result from the Chinese scholars’ dependence on Western research results when doing domestic explorations, then highlights the presence of the state when talking about the concept of media trust in China; introduces institutional- based trust from sociological research and legitimizes its inclusion in the conceptual scope of media trust, explaining the connotation of institutional-based trust in China and providing clues for its operationalization; ueses confirmatory factor analysis, spearman correlation analysis, and path analysis (N=678), finding that the convergent validity of indicators of institutional-based trust is good and have good discriminant validity with content trust, and the combination of institutional- based trust and content trust has high concurrent validity with media trust, which can reflect the conceptual connotation of media trust in a more comprehensive way. This paper also discusses the localization path of media trust research in China, either by continuing to explore the measurement of trust in China or by reconstructing and reinterpreting the concept of trust with sufficient materials accumulated, while both ways should be based on the emphasis of the authority of the state.

In recent years, the Chinese eSports field has emerged with a discourse assemblage of “eSports patriotism”. Situated in China’s specific context, different actors such as countries, industries, and individuals, through the specific form and practice of “triple articulation”, compete with each other, connect with each other, and translate each other, to form a complex, dynamic and even temporary consensus on eSports patriotism. The first articulation is on the level of state power, with the articulation, disarticulation and rearticulation of discourse; the second articulation is on the level of industry capital, with the number discourse and the alliance of interests; and the third articulation is on the level of individual dream, with the two-way articulation of the “championship dream” and the “Chinese dream”.

As the digital government continues to evolve, citizen engagement in public governance through e-complaints has become a significant channel. However, addressing the challenge of providing high-quality online responses that align with citizen expectations to resolve their e-complaints and foster positive interactions in civil affairs remains unresolved. This study addresses this issue through a two-stage mixed-method approach. The research identifies that the perceived quality of governmental online responses encompasses five dimensions: responsiveness, reliability, procedural, powerful, and personalization. Furthermore, the perceived quality of governmental online responses enhances citizens' perceived equity and satisfaction with the e-complaints handling, thereby bolstering their political trust and continued e-participation intentions. Notably, the perceived quality of governmental online responses by bystanders has a more pronounced positive impact on their perceived equity and satisfaction with e-complaint handling compared to claimants. The conclusions offer practical recommendations for e-government management agencies and personnel to adeptly handle citizen e-complaints through high-quality online responses, thereby upholding public political trust and nurturing a commitment to co-governance.

Based on a national survey (N=582), from the “individual-family” perspective, this study combined the cognitive mediation model and the family communication patterns theory to investigate how people’s attention to health information and the families’ conversation/conformity orientation affect people’s sharing of health information with their parents. The study found that, at the individual cognitive level, people’s attention to health information can directly enhance their health information sharing with parents. It can also indirectly influence their health information sharing behaviors through health literacy or the chain mediation of information elaboration and health literacy. At the family communication level, the conversation-oriented family communication pattern can significantly increase people’s health information sharing with their parents. This study underlines the connections between people’s information attention and their sharing of health information with parents by extending the cognitive mediation model. In addition, focusing on health communication within the family, this study confirms the positive effect of the conversation- oriented family communication pattern on health information sharing.

This study conducted a survey of 389 smartphone users aged 60 years and above to examine their received support provided by families, friends and communities in the process of bridging the digital divide of the elderly. The direct and indirect effects of social support on subjective well-being were also examined. The results suggested that family members, friends, and communities all provided informational, emotional and instrumental support, with younger generations in families provided all types of support most frequently. The results also showed that social support provided by younger generations in families could significantly affect subjective well-being in older adults, while social support provided by friends could affect subjective well- being through perceived efficacy. This study explored the impact of social support in the context of digital divide, and extended the buffering effect model of social support. The findings also had some practical implications for improving subjective well-being of older adults in the digital age.

Watching TV has become an important form of leisure in Chinese people’s daily lives, and television as a family medium has also long been the number one medium in China. As a social cell, the family is the source of happiness, and watching TV affects people’s quality of life and happiness. Television viewing has both direct and indirect effects on subjective well-being. Based on the 2013 and 2021 China General Social Survey (CGSS) data, this paper finds that both daily TV viewing and free time TV viewing (or DVD watching) directly enhance people's subjective happiness, but only “frequent” or “daily” TV viewing can significantly enhance people's happiness, indicating that TV use has a certain threshold for enhancing happiness. This paper analyzes the indirect effect of TV viewing on subjective well-being through two competing mediation mechanisms, and the mediation analysis reveals that TV watching indirectly enhances people’s subjective well-being through promoting social interaction, but TV watching does not reduce well-being because of enhanced materialistic tendencies.

With the rapid development of new technologies, particularly the rise of large language models such as ChatGPT, the field of journalism and communication is undergoing a significant transformation. In this dialogue, the author interviewed Professor John Downey, President of the European Communication Research and Education Association, to explore the impact of generative artificial intelligence technologies on research, education, and the evolution of the journalism and communication discipline. These discussions not only reflect the global trend of current technological advancements but also reveal different strategies and ways of thinking in cross- cultural contexts, thereby providing a diverse perspective for China’s journalism and communication studies to adapt and develop in the era of generative artificial intelligence.

The prevalence of digital platforms has provided great convenience but also increased privacy risks. Using the Communication Privacy Management theory, this paper explored how Chinese users manage privacy boundaries in non-social contexts. This paper found that there are dual paths of users' platform privacy boundary management through in-depth interviews and validated the psychological mechanisms through a questionnaire (N=1419). It concluded that Chinese users make privacy management decisions based on the premise that they are dependent on such non-social platforms for daily life activities. However, two internal and external factors, namely self-efficacy and privacy calculations, intervene in such decisions. This paper developed privacy management strategies in the context of life service platforms and provided a theoretical reference for subsequent research on privacy management in non-personal contexts.

The rapid development of eSports industry has transformed itself into a multilateral platform model and a career development path with high-level literacy requirements. This study introduces the concept of “media literacy” and adopts Meyrowitz (1998) “three-part division” of media literacy, namely content literacy, grammar literacy, and medium literacy, to propose the theoretical framework of “eSports literacy”. The study attempts to explore the dynamic relationship between media and technology, labor, and employment. By treating eSports as a medium that spans across sports, technology, culture, and media, the study examines how eSports professionals understand and use media, and ultimately integrate into the media environment to enhance their media productivity. This study identifies six key actors, including Tencent Esports, the Ministry of Education, the Sports Bureau, esports clubs, vocational colleges, and universities, who play a crucial role in constructing eSports literacy. These actors promote a shared value proposition among professionals in the industry, collaborative innovation, and sustainable self-development, thereby constituting the three levels of eSports literacy: content literacy, grammar literacy, and medium literacy. The contribution of this study lies in concretizing the macro-level development of the eSports industry into the micro-level requirements for media literacy among professionals. By interpreting the mutually constitutive relationship between media literacy and the industry ecosystem, the study clarifies how professionals can enhance their media production practices in the eSports medium and achieve digital survival.

This study investigates the politics of visibility between platforms and laborers, starting with the algorithmic gossip among live e-commerce entrepreneurs. This research founds that, the content of algorithmic gossip can be divided into two parts: simplifying algorithms and auditing algorithms. The first part shows how entrepreneurs simplify rules and establish norms, including defining “traffic” in terms of digital identity and explicitly executing the “data-running” labor process of producing data through content production, real-time monitoring, and analyzing feedback. Auditing algorithms reflects entrepreneurs’ reinterpretation of the meaning of algorithms while rationalizing platform governance measures, evidenced by entrepreneurs’ auditing of algorithms for innovation, decentralization, and publicness. The article concludes by summarizing the theoretical value of algorithmic gossip in understanding the relationship between platforms and workers from marginal knowledge and the technological environment in general.

This paper takes the hollow village named M in Zhang Jiakou as the research object, and aims to explore the characteristic of the media space in this hollow village and its influence on social structure. The paper has developed a conception named “embodied media space”. First, the paper finds that M has the characteristic of the inclination of “embodied media space”. The elderly are embedded in the media space constructed by technologies for instrumental purposes. They reproduce the family space and connect the “family” and “nation” space. The elderly particularly rely on the “embodied media space” constructed by body guided activities such as “chatting on the street”, reflecting the space subjectivity and the body creativity. Second, based on the reciprocity of benefits and emotions, the “embodied media space” has promoted blood-like relationship among neighbors. The traditional “hierarchical order” has been reconstructed. The conception of “embodied media space” has returned to the principal position of the body, valued the meaning of the neighbouring space and reemphasized the integration among “body, mind and space”. It has some enlightening significance on rural governance.

From the perspective of international communication, philosophy and international relations, this paper explores 902 articles and 1.88 million words of policy texts on the Belt and Road Initiative from 16 countries and international organizations in the past decade. Based on the schematic narrative template of contextualization, role shaping, social mobilization and normative advice, this paper summarizes three common models of value-based international communication, namely, divergency model based on conflict narrative, overlapping model based on de-risk narrative, and convergency model based on community narrative. This paper proposes that the world is experiencing a broad and profound Epeirogenic Movement. Under the premise of political multi-polarization, value-blocs-oriented communication has become one of the most important forces to shape the geopolitical structure of international relations. Bloc boundaries are systematic, dynamic, and layered, expanding the possibilities for global dialogue and collaboration. In the future, international communication will go beyond the superficial stage of material and non-material communication of content, channel, data, and technology, upgrading to the stage of intrinsic competition driven by values.

The Internet-based Assembly Communication By Sui Yan. Beijing: China Science Publishing & Media Ltd. (CSPM), 2023, 319 pages. ISBN 978-7-03-075552-0. ¥168.

Cyber violence incidents have frequently attracted great attention of the whole society, and relevant research has continued to heat up. However, some basic academic issues need to be clarified urgently. Based on the methodology of “unification of logic and history”, this article uses a method that combines multiple-case studies and text analysis to conduct an academic analysis of the normative judgement and the theoretical basis in the researches on cyber violence governance. The research finds that there is a big gap between the existing research on whether the behaviors in the sample cases are illegal and the judicial reality. Most of the identification of what kinds of illegal behaviors doesn’t meet the standard of the normative judgement. Besides, the theoretical basis adopted by the researches in which the sample cases are characterized as cyber violence is mostly specious, and the misuse of the theory abounds. As a result, researchers’ characterization of behaviors in cases of cyber violence tends to be expanded, vague, and one-sided. Not only is it unable to provide the necessary academic support for the legalization of cyber violence governance, but it also may mislead the policy orientation and judicial practice of cyber violence governance, which deserves great attention on the issue.

Over a period of more than half a century, Mao Zedong combined Marx, Leninist journalism thoughts with the practice of the Chinese revolutionary struggle and news dissemination, creatively proposing a series of journalistic viewpoints that formed Mao Zedong’s journalistic thoughts. The formation process of Mao Zedong’s journalistic thoughts roughly underwent five historical stages: gestation and emergence before and after the founding of the CPC and during the Great Revolution, exploration and accumulation during the Agrarian Revolutionary War period, enrichment and enhancement during the Comprehensive Anti, Japanese War period, deepening and maturity during the Liberation War period, and summary and improvement after the founding of the People’s Republic of China. The formation and development of Mao Zedong’s journalistic thoughts have made great theoretical contributions to establishing the theoretical foundation of the CPC’s journalistic thoughts, leading the development path of the CPC’s journalism, and initiating the historical process of Sinicization of Marxist journalistic viewpoints. Mao Zedong’s journalistic thoughts occupy an important position in the history of CPC’s journalistic thoughts.In the context of Chinese modernization, learning and reviewing Mao Zedong's journalistic thoughts is of great significance for us to further adapt Marxist journalistic viewpoints to the Chinese context and the needs of our times, and construct the scientific journalism knowledge system with Chinese characteristics.

The advancement in generative artificial intelligence technologies, as illustrated by ChatGPT, signifies not only technological progress but also the emergence of novel themes and nuanced interpretations of longstanding issues, giving rise to a distinctive problematic domain. In 2023, scholars extensively deliberated on ChatGPT’s applications, exploring its potential social ramifications, alterations in human-machine dynamics, shifts in living environments, and more. This led to in-depth exploration and reflection. Utilizing criteria such as topical freshness, theoretical innovation, and research depth, this paper distills six key themes from the pivotal journals of new media studies in 2023. These encompass the evolving relationships and interactions between humans and machines, novel mechanisms for knowledge production, intelligent machines, media objects (including technological and virtual entities), new media in rural settings, and the exploration of “short videos + live streaming.” Despite the constraints of limited data, the paper categorizes and succinctly reviews these themes, aiming to provide a valuable reference for researchers in the field.

Nowadays, contemporary Chinese journalism has formed a relatively complete discipline structure composed of four branches: historical journalism, applied journalism, theoretical journalism and intersectional journalism. Among them, historical journalism is the root, applied journalism is the foundation, theoretical journalism is the soul, and intersectional journalism is the extension. The concept of logo in contemporary Chinese journalism is composed of the concept of logo in four branches. This paper mainly starts from three branches of theoretical journalism: news ontology, news format and news relations, and preliminarily analyzes the basic composition of the concept of logo in contemporary Chinese journalism. The paper points out that in the ontological perspective, the concept of identification mainly includes “positive facts” “positive news” and “whole reality”. In the perspective of business form theory, the concept of identification mainly includes “party media” “mouthpiece of the eyes and ears” “party spirit” “people’s character” “Ma Xin concept” “news and public opinion” “positive publicity (reporting)” “correct public opinion” “public opinion guidance” “all media” and “media integration”. From the perspective of relationship theory, the typical expression mode of contemporary Chinese news relations is “biased” mode -- propaganda bias, political bias and social bias, and the main identification concepts are “people- centered” and “news means”. Although each section has its own concept of logo, because of the systematic existence of news theory itself, the logo concept of the three sections is intrinsically unified, and they jointly constitute the logo concept system of news theory.

As an inevitable product of the development of digital capitalism, private information attached to an individual’s physical body has become a commodity with property value, circulating in bilateral exchange markets in the form of legitimate labor. Different from the accidental transaction in the traditional media stage, the privacy transaction in the digital society has the commoditized form of collection mining and sharing proliferation and the self-commoditized form of privacy disclosure, thus forming a bidirectional coupling privacy commoditization mechanism. Among them, the dispute over ownership of users' private data and the imbalance between costs and benefits in privacy disclosure have become prominent contradictions in the bidirectional commercialization of privacy, resulting in privacy transactions becoming an unavoidable social anxiety and group risk. Privacy is a symbol of the social identity of human beings, and only by incorporating a commoditized mechanism of privacy concerns and data compatibility can individuals protect their privacy from falling into the predicament of zero privacy.

This study used two experiments to examine the psychological mechanism of the persuasion effect of narrative point of view (POV) and expanding narratives of public service short videos. Analyzing data collected from the subjects who viewed a short video presenting corneal donation appeals, the study found that narrative POV (point of view) affects the organ donation intentions directly and people exposed to first-person narratives suggest deeper immersion than third- person narrative viewers. Moreover, immersion has positive impact on individuals' attitudes toward and intentions of organ donations, in line with the transportation theory. Data analysis also demonstrated that POV affects individual organ donation intentions following a serial mediation model of POV-Immersion-Attitude-Intentions. The model suggests that the contradictory findings of previous studies on the relationship between POV and health behavior are partially due to the mediation effect of immersion after exposure to such messages. Experiment 2, sustained by heuristic processing model, proceeds to explore how Danmu (bullet comments) as the expanding narratives influences organ donation intentions. It revealed that positive textual Danmu also indirectly but negatively impacts people’s donation intentions through boosting heuristics, which positively influences the negative attitudes and negatively influence the positive attitudes simultaneously.

With the rapid development of digital information technology, global mobility has become a low-cost, normalized existence. With the dual boost of economy and politics, cross-border e-commerce has gradually become an important practice of economic globalization. This research adopts the research method of participatory observation and in-depth interview, taking a cross- border e-commerce company in Fujian as an example, from the perspective of infrastructure theory, this research has insight into the multiple relationships among cross-border e-commerce platforms, people and digital capital operations. This study believes that visibility and invisibility have ontological significance for the research of media infrastructure. Therefore, the analysis framework of visibility and invisibility is divided into three levels: visual/physical, feeling/consciousness, and regulation/ideology. Through empirical research, the specific orientation and reference dimensions are discussed to enrich the theoretical level and academic texture of this concept. Since the separation between the surface characteristics of objects and the internal operation structure of the system, this study further points out that the technical system of physical structure has the characteristics of autopoiesis. At the same time, the technology system relies on the mutual transformation of “commodity datalization” and “data commercialization”, which has a matrix impact on the form of commodity economy and the real society, and has created the attribute change of economic activities in the practice of platform infrastructure.