At present, the distribution of benefits  between search engines and media is out of  balance.  How to deal with the relationship between the interests  of       them has always been a  complicated problem. From the view of balance  of  interests in copyright law, this paper systematically analyzed the protection and limitation of the media’s internet copyright. The study also discriminated the respective different legal liability of  general links,deep links, frame link,       snapshot,news title,and a few lines of  text search results  provided  to draw a clear boundary between infringement and no infringement.

Media create unique news culture. In the process of producing such culture, media act both as creator and consumer. Nonetheless, copyright infringements happen sometimes. In the process of dealing with copyright disputes, media, as the defendant, commonly try to persuade plaintiff to compromise and withdraw claims. Even in judicial proceedings, courts, as well, prefer to encourage both sides make compromise. As result, the majority of such cases ended with compromising and the plaintiffs withdrawn their claims. This article aims to analyze and criticize this phenomenon in media copyright disputes.

With the booming of short video / live streaming, the two different and related theoretical approaches of online emotional labour and online affective labour are increasingly integrated in digital labour. This paper mainly expounds how the cross connection of the two different theories can better serve our understanding of the current digital platform and digital labour. Online emotional labour provides an individual approach for digital labour, emphasizing the subjectivity of labourers; online affective labour provides a collective one, which is more oriented to digital platform. The digital labour of short video / live streaming platform requires online emotional labour based on individual labourers, such as Internet anchor. The collection of all online emotional labour constitutes the online affective labour of the platform, thus constituting the characteristics of the digital platform. Defined by these characteristics, the platform operation logic, which can be recognized as the platform style, also acts on each online emotional labour. The digital labour of short video / live streaming platform represented by Kuaishou shows four main characteristics: emphasizing appearance and body, paying attention to language and speaking, recognizing imitation and copying, emphasizing persona and acting. In terms of future case studies, this research on the integration of online emotional labour and affective labour provides a useful method, perspective and framework. Also, relevant research needs to pay attention to the labour characteristics in the era of short video / live streaming, and place it in the specific online platforms, so as to further understand the Internet anchor and its digital labour in the context of Chinese practice. What also needs to be further expanded is the understanding and reconstructing of the theory of online emotional labor and online affective labour.

This paper is a review of communication studies published in Greater China in 2021. Articles and other publications are selected by ten researchers based on the value of research questions, the solidarity of research methods, the significance of the findings and research innovativeness. Studies are categorized into eight topics: media theory, temporal and spatial dimensions of media, platforms and digital labor, fan culture, the empowerment of digital media, COVID-19 and health communication, the materiality and embodiment of communication, algorithm and artificial intelligence.

Social media play a mainstream role for users to get information. But in recent years users feel fatigue about it. Previous studies have attributed the causes of fatigue mainly to the excessive amount of information (perceived overload). This paper argues that in addition to the “quantity” reason, the fatigue of social media should have “quality” reasons such as perceived value. Combining the methods of in-depth interviews and survey, this paper studied Chinese WeChat and Weibo users’ minds and behaviors. Social media fatigue among Chinese users was common and affected by perceived benefit and perceived cost. Cognitive cost applied the greatest influence on user’s fatigue, followed by time cost, function value, information quality and social value. Cognitive cost and information quality were first found dimensions of perceived value in local circumstances.

From “gatekeeping” the content gate of journalism and communication to “gatekeeping” the social gate of platform governance, the paradigm shift of the concept of “gatekeeper” reflects the inevitable trend of technological progress and the development of the times, continues the internal consistent spirit of human civilization, and also represents the paradigm shift of human social communication and governance in the whole digital age. This study traces the origin of the concept of “gatekeeper” and combs its connotation and paradigm transformation process through literature research and interdisciplinary comparative research. From the “gatekeeper” in the field of journalism and communication to the “gatekeeper” on the Internet platform, this paper analyzes the changes and invariance, and discriminates the essence of the change in the digital age and the difficulties faced by today’s human social governance. From the “gatekeeper” of journalism and communication to the “gatekeeper” of the platform is essentially a paradigm shift in the role and role of information communication in human society. Under the guidance of the new human communication behavior with data as the core, the theoretical basis and knowledge system of communication need to be reconstructed in order to realize the real paradigm transformation of communication. The change of the concept of “gatekeeper” provides important enlightenment for the transformation and reconstruction of communication.

This research focuses critical and empirical attention on the resistance tactics of algorithm audiences in the control society. The algorithm society presents the characteristics of weak spatialization, heavy predictability, and dividuality. It seems to create personalized and independent exclusive content and services for individuals, but the essence is to conquer the world with a set of extremely single standard codes. Precisely put user needs into the code calculation, in this way, the largest range of deviations from conventional folk practices can be eliminated. When the performance of the algorithm cannot provide a good user experience, the audience begins to build their own tactical practice space, and a series of "low-level operations" such as escaping, reorganizing, embedding and backlashing the algorithm text. Audience resistance tactics, as an inherent form of low-level politics that is very different from the rules of upper-level technology and politics, acting in a way outside the visible spectrum of formal activities recognized by technical activities. However, there is no absolute deviation in the algorithm (control) society. Any deviation is a new form of participation. Users are locked in the services and rules provided by the platform through "technical tolerance" and "participation culture". Individuals are conquered, defined and reshaped by technology, which looks like giving participants a more social illusion. Users think they are smart and they resist. In essence, it has become a self-reinforcing inequality.

Digital platforms such as social media have become space to raise gender consciousness, foster women’s solidarity and call for social change. Through qualitative methods such as in-depth interview and participatory observation, this study explores the process of gender consciousness among young female users who actively speak out on gender issues in local digital space. In addition, this paper proposes the concept of “mediated affective solidarity” to understand how individuals who suffer from affective dissonance, experience gender consciousness and become affective alien can connect, support with each other and make collective voices to form a sense of solidary as affective communities based on the connective affordance of social media. This study argues that social media and other digital platforms have reconfigured the relationship between individual, collective and space, and shaped the feminist politics of transformation in contemporary China, in which affect plays a significant role.

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.

What are the challenges and possibilities in promoting the adaptation and understanding of Chinese culture among members of other cultural groups through cultural identity adjustment in the practice of cross-cultural communication? This research explores a new path for cultural identity studies by introducing Communication Theory of Identity (CTI), and conducts interviews and practical investigations with Chinese personnel from 14 Confucius Institutes worldwide, as well as “cultural contactees” from different countries. It is found that the “the third culture space” represented by “festival culture” is a domain that requires attention in crosscultural communication research. The perceived security of cultural participants’ identity after encountering Chinese festival culture is influenced by factors such as identity gaps, effectiveness of dialogue, and bicultural identity backgrounds. Furthermore, the challenges in understanding cultural identity are mainly attributed to identity gaps created by conceptual boundaries. Festival culture, through the construction of a community of shared meanings and open dialogue, connects the fourfold identity in the framework of CTI. It achieves enchantment through setting micronarratives,creating cultural experiences, and promoting two-way integration, thus facilitating the “awakening-integration-belonging” of cultural participants’ cultural identities.

Functionalism, as a key concept throughout the history of the communication research, not only lacks a unified and clear definition, but also implies ambiguous and imprecise interpretation in Communication. Tracing functionalism in the context of social theory and communication research, this paper first reviews how Harold Lasswell and Robert Merton clarified functionalism in response to the transition of the American social sciences in the 1940s. Then this paper explores how their functionalist approaches are revised and how communication research is labeled by “functionalism” by Charles Wright and Elihu Katz. Under the rigid label of “functionalism,” use and gratification research resonates with media effect research, although it was once regarded as the hope of settling the restriction of the short-term effect research. After the 1960s, the traditional functionalist paradigm stressing systematic equilibrium has been gradually reconstructed with the change of the society. Communication research absorbing the functionalist trend containing more theoretical approaches keeps developing on the basis of disrupting tradition.

By interviewing with Professor Joseph D. Straubhaar, this article discusses how global media research can achieve its’ theoretical and methodological innovations in view of the development experiences of BRICS media. 'Cultural proximity’ and ‘multilayered cultural identity’ are two key concepts raised by Prof. Straubhaar to criticize ‘cultural imperialism’ based on the Brazilian reality. Theoretically, these two concepts intend to inherit the main ideas of globalization critically, emphasizing the significant influence of audience’ cultural identity on regional/local level to cultural production’s global flow. Methodologically, the two concepts attempt to highlight the position of qualitative method such as ethnographic interview and family history in audience research. Finally, the two aspects of innovations will make scholars better understand how to raise China’s soft power and intercultural communication ability trough the cross-cultural comparison among BRICS media.

With short-video platforms rapidly developing, middle-aged and elderly people, the so-called “digital immigrants”, are increasingly engaging in short-video apps. The low media literacy among this group has aroused great concerns. This study interviewed 19 middle-aged and elderly people by asking them to identify the fake information on several short videos. Through in-depth interviews, we obtained the participants’ analyzing logic and their identifying approaches. Applying the Grounded Theory, we constructed a model explaining their approaches of identifying information on short videos, including systematic route, peripheral route and social route. This paper also portrays three different types of profiles of the middle-aged and elderly people in the field of information identification of short videos: emotionally dominant ones, experience-dependent ones and integrative analysts. In the end, this study attempts to offer specific strategies to guide middle-aged and elderly people to avoid information pitfalls and also mentions the governance responsibility of content production.

According to the 45th Statistical Report on China’s Internet Development, as of March 2020, live-streaming show in China, which attracted 207 million users, has become an important economic industry. Previous studies often employed concept of emotional labor to investigate how live-streaming platforms alienated and exploited the practitioners. However, on the one hand, this approach largely ignored the live-streamers’ subjective experience; on the other hand, the use of emotional labor also showed limitations in explaining the live-streamers’ working practice. Therefore, based on a 12-month digital ethnography, this study combines “relational labor” and “platformization” to examine how live-streamers negotiate the economic and intimate relationships with their audiences inside/outside the live-streaming platform, and concludes three strategies of “pricing”, “differentiation” and “boundary”. The study also makes a further theoretical reflection on relational labor, platformization and the subjectivity of live-streamers.

In the era of deep mediatization, digital technology, as the underlying logic, constructs a decentralized relationship space of “everyone connected”, which enables individual opinions to be manifested as a scale force in group interaction and collective behavior, that is, “unorganized organizational force”. As an “Unorganized Organizational Power”, network public opinion is a typical manifestation of the collective power in cyberspace. How to deal with and guide the network public opinion, such a “Unorganized Organizational Power”, is an important issue in the current social governance. Based on the background of the post-epidemic era, this paper observes the network public opinion caused by “Epidemiological investigation” and finds that there are three kinds of powers, “gaze, consumption and construction”. By analyzing the “Unorganized Power” organizational process and the social function mode of “organizational power”, this article aims to discusses the public value and potential risks contained in it.

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.

The accelerated development of many new technologies and applications such as metaverse and artificial intelligence not only highlights many problems and contradictions between people, technology and society, but also has a subversive impact on the information dissemination structure of the current society. The new media research in 2022, in response to the above- mentioned problems, has carried out in-depth thinking and exploration at different levels such as social practice, technical philosophy and ethics. This paper summarizes the themes of new media-related research papers in core journals of journalism and communication in 2022, and extracts five major topics: metaverse research, embodied communication research, digital human and social robot research, human-machine communication research, health code And data research, and give a brief review by category, in order to provide some reference and reference for relevant researchers through this limited sorting and integration.

As a case orientation research method, Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) has been widely spread and applied on social science research in recent 20 years. In this article, first we had an introduction and analysis on its research logic and applicable environment, then four research orientations were proposed to envision the application prospects of QCA in the field of journalism and communication. Based on these steps, we finally introduce its operation steps and hope to bring this method to more research on journalism and communication, therefore our methodology will be expanded and enriched.

As a unique group of internet anchors, the popularity of the bottom internet anchors and their fatalistic fading out show the logic of digital survival and digital destiny of the bottom people. The paper takes MC Tianyou’s media life history as a case study to explore how bottom internet anchors perform digital labour through short videos/live streaming. Facing the similar media life history of the bottom internet anchors, this paper argues that they complete the dual production of self and profession in the process of digital labour, and generate the media identities that make their fame and reputation flow on various platforms. At this point, when they are unable to deal with the conflict brought by the media self in their self-identity, this “tragedy of the self” makes their media lives end. In addition, with the analysis of the digital labour and identity of the bottom internet anchors, as well as the presentation of the results of governance, the paper emphasizes that the affordance of the platform can be the landing point of governance in the cultural pluralism space, and that the continuity of two-way thinking is needed to connect the subject and the object of governance, so as to explore the digital governance strategy in China in the thinking of good governance. A negotiated governance path will give the bottom internet anchors more space to survive, and will make their cultural production more dynamic and vitality.

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.

The D8 Expedition has caused shock and heated discussions in public opinion both inside and outside China. It has renewed the understandings of the 90s and 00s generations among scholars and elites, and thus exposed theoretical and cognitive blind spots in the past studies of Chinese Internet nationalism. This paper tries to develop some “middle range” explanations of the “informed nationalists” under the context of new media commercial culture. We will frst give a historical recapitulation of the developments of online popular nationalism in China, and then use multi-sited online and of?ine ethnography to investigate how fans are turned into nationalists. The research is the frst step to reveal complex mechanisms of cultural production and collective identity formation in the era of new media and among cultural industries, and to explore their development, potential and limitations.

Existing studies on public opinion patterns in China generally find polarization within online public opinion. However, these studies stay at the level of descriptive analysis and pay less attention to the underlying formation mechanisms. Based on the 2021 Chinese Netizens Survey, this study analyses whether polarization of public opinion exists and its underlying causal mechanism. Contrary to prior findings, the results show that the structural attitudes of Chinese netizens is not bimodal but a unimodal distribution, of which the position of netizens on domestic controversial topics is relatively neutral and mild, and the attitude on diplomatic topics is a one- sided “strongly support” of the government’s position. Moreover, there are widespread “false consensus” effects in overestimating the proportion of the actual opinions held by others with individuals holding more extreme attitudes showing more “false consensus”. In terms of the formation mechanism, authoritarian personality, ideology, and media exposure can significantly predict the polarization of people’s attitudes, but the false consensus is the internal drive of attitude polarization. While contributing greater insight to public opinion in China, the research results also have significance for the construction of healthy and normal public opinion in China.

This article takes “media navigation” as the key concept and adopts Odysseus’s “oar”, from the philosophy of technology, as the image of media navigation. By analyzing the role of the mouse in navigating the virtual space and that of the mobile phone in urban cyberspace in an era of mobile internet, this paper explores and illustrates the historical process of dual navigation in Plato’s sense, namely how, as technology develops, including computers, mobile internet, artificial intelligence etc., navigation practices in physical and discursive spaces are becoming increasingly integrated. During this process, the “audience” of the mass media has become “user” and “steersman”, and the relationship between media, human and society has been expanded and reinvented. The media, as a technological machine system, in its deep association with the organic and the social, has become the force and mechanism that drives the human society.

In the context of the rapid growth of the application scale of virtual reality technology, it is of great significance to explore the dynamic interactive mechanism between user-embodied experience and knowledge cognition in the context of 360-degree knowledge short video to effectively improve its communication effect. Based on embodied cognition theory, this study constructs a coding framework from two dimensions of embodied experience and video content cognition of users. On this basis, cognitive network analysis is used to encode the data and construct the user cognitive network. The correlation between different cognitive elements is analyzed by taking the bullet-chatting released by users of 360-degree knowledge short videos on Bilibili website as the data source. The dynamic evolution of user cognitive network is explored. It is found that users’ cognitive experience is related to cognition of video content. There is a highest relationship between the participation, presence in cognitive experience and focus on the plot, and outcome in content cognization. Users’ cognitive network differs at different times. In the learning process, users significantly enhance the focus on deep content cognitive elements and the invocation of embodied experience. The depth and complexity of cognitive nodes association gradually increase, reflecting the continuous improvement of user cognitive construction in the process of 360-degree video viewing.

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.

Affordance, a pivotal concept in media studies, has lost its kernel during the appropriation in communication studies, which showcases the complexity of grasping its original and nuanced complications. Teasing out its origins and contexts, this paper examines the junctures of appropriation to delineate the paradigm shift and conceptual translation behind it, which draws our attention to the mistranslation “Kegongxing”. This paper proposes the term “Shineng” to replace it. As an interdisciplinary concept, “Shineng” highlights trifold properties, including embodiment, materiality, and object-subject’s symmetry, serving as a possible way-out for the predicaments of media studies as such and an advantageous pinpoint for the shift and reconstitution of communication studies as a whole.

With the development of technology, individual’s each online action will leave his/her data print. After professional processing and mining, those data will become a distinctive data chain to recognize and identify him/her successfully. According, new requirements for legal protection on internet privacy arise in the digital times. Based on the updated General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) proposed by European Commission, the paper discusses one of the hot issues-right to be forgotten. By taking Google and Facebook as examples, from the aspects of theory, legislation, jurisdiction and tradition, the paper analyses the real meaning of the right, and furthermore, points out the right is also facing some new challenges, such as data collection, data control and application scope. Finally, after some comments on the right, the paper presents an idea that the right could not be realized totally if there are still some limits.

Using corpus approach and critical metaphor analysis method, we analyze 1110 coverages of the COVID-19 in three media, The People’s Daily, The Caixin Weekly, and The Sanlian Lifeweek Magazine, to examine the rich metaphors used in the coverages. We found that war metaphor dominates the framework of coverages. Combining with hero-center narrative, it achieves a wide range of emotional mobilization, and plays down the impact of public health emergency on social order. With family metaphor and body metaphor, media coverages connect the traditional concept of the state as a body and the family-country Imagination to construct the sense of national community. The party organ and commercialized media adopt divergent metaphor construction strategy. We argue that, the generalization of a single metaphor has negative functions, which is not conducive to in-depth understanding and rational reflection on the epidemic situation.

Polarization is a key problem in the study of group interaction. In order to explore the mechanism of public opinion polarization, this paper takes typical events in the COVID-19 epidemic as an example, integrates various computational methods, analyzes the polarization phenomenon from the perspectives of ideological positions, emotion, attention and other paths, and examines the mechanism of selective exposure and its influencing factors. The research found that public opinion topics are constantly changing, but the public has a preference for homogeneous and popular content, and the public attention is dominated by a single topic in the short term. Behind the change in topic is the clash of liberalism, populism and statism positions. The popularity and ideology of information have different influences on the selective exposure mechanism. The statism will strengthen this mechanism and show the effect of social integration, while the liberalism and populism will weaken this mechanism and seize the discourse space to strengthen itself. Finally, the intensity of selective exposure can predict short-term changes in public attention, which is of great significance for understanding how the process of information transmission affects the evolution of macro public opinion.

In the past 20 years of Internet development, information technology has changed into the fundamental social factor from communication protocol, channel, media and platform. During this process, the social network experienced a transformation from the pattern of difference sequence and the group pattern to complicated and distributed network that is open and interactive, which have essentially changed the situation and ways people connect with each other and triggered the evolution of social resource distribution and power pattern. As a new source of power, Internet activates the individuals and the self-organizations, empowering the powerless in the society and causing power shift from the state actors to the non-state actors. This article tries to illustrate the dynamics and effect of the empowerment based on relation network in social media.

Driven by the new technologies such as AI, IoT and VR/AR, a smart media age is coming. In the new era, everything may become media. Human works together with intelligent machines in the whole process of media and the interaction between man and machine may flially result in a self-evolution of media. In the aspect of news production, fve models will be formed with the introduction of intelligent machines: personalized news, machine writing, sensor news, immersive news and distributed news. The future media industry will be reshaped in four dimensions: user platform, news production system, news distribution system and information terminals. Though machine and algorithm will play important roles in the smart media age, human should surpass algorithm and insist on its own values. Also in the interaction of man and machine, humanistic concern should always be put frst.

In today’s culture of the internet, young women who have not yet married or had children are interested in “raising” virtual babies. The intersection of girl culture and motherhood studies has prompted a rethinking of how the connotation and extension of “motherhood” expand and change in the digital era. This study focuses on the practice of “cyber-motherhood” in recent years among online communities of plush doll players, with empirical data gathered through in-depth interviews and participatory observation methods. In contrast to previous studies that focused on how technology affects biological child rearing, “cyber-motherhood” focuses on the intertwined interaction of humans and technology through the concept of the cyborg. According to research, media technology, social structure, and the agency of girl players interact to shape the “cyber-mothering” practice, which is based on embodiment practice and visual techniques. It echoes the social institution of motherhood while also undermining its sanctity.While “cyber- motherhood” provides girls with a flexible strategy of dealing with life’s pressures, flowing eros emerges from the cracks of rigid binary logic, acting as a transient but widely spread force while also opening up new opportunities for various gender subject-positions.

In recent years, the popularity of male anchors has continued to rise, and traditional gaze theories are unable to explain the new trends in webcasting. This article proposes a new paradigm of gaze for live webcasts based on the big data analysis of Douyu’s anchors. We found that the “male gaze” has changed in the “panopticon” constructed by the bullet screen. The audience,as the monitor, disciplines anchors through the definition of the “others” and the support of capital power, and anchors are active to accept it. The audience’s attention to the anchors’ body is symbolized and divided. The gender boundary of peeking and possession begain to blur, the shackles of the binary opposition between men and women are breaking gradually, and “male sex consumption” is growing.

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.

This essay focuses on nationalism in China. It situates the analysis in China’s social and historical relationship with the West and discusses the differences and similarities between official nationalism and popular nationalism, and between political nationalism and consumer nationalism. The essay first traces the historical development of nationalism in China since the First Opium War in order to provide a broader historical context, which is followed by an investigation of cosmopolitanism. I argue that modern China often swings between nationalism and cosmopolitanism. After that, the essay analyzes the “D8 Expedition” to explore the specifcs of online nationalism. I argue that the D8 case is not only the expression of nationalism but also the performance of identity politics that is embedded in consumer culture and global geopolitics. Such a performance is not only rooted in our selective memory of history, but also asserts China’s position in the context of globalization that is sometimes characterized by frustrations and resentment. Thus, nationalism in China converges local and global forces, politics and economy, and offcial and popular elements.

This paper selects innovative communication reseach from nearly 30 Chinese academic journals (including Hong Kong and Taiwan) in 2022 in terms of research issues, perspectives and demonstration methods. Studies are categorized into eleven topics: Metaverse, epidemic and health communication, communication history, media theory, materiality, algorithms, platform labour, media and space, media culture, media memory, mobile/social media use and interaction. The study found that communication research in China in 2022 was characterised by three main features: firstly, communication research focused on dialogue with classical theories from across disciplines and continued reflection on fundamental questions such as “what is media”; secondly, researchers balanced new phenomena with everyday issues and focused on the dialogue between old and new issues and theories; finally, communication scholars placed their research horizons on a more diverse range of actors and richer research scenarios, leading to a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of objects such as space and materials.

Human pursuits better communication tool and more effective signs. For example, a common language all over the world would avoid much trouble in communication. But the reality is not optimistic. According to the logic of ideal symbol theory, any language could not replace the different natural language we are using now. In a sense, human has their common language in different ways.

With the permeation of media, the concept of mediatization has become one of the most important notions reflecting the significance of media and a new paradigm of media studies. This paper makes a distinction between the two concepts of mediatization and mediation, and explains the meaning of media logic that the mediatization as a meta-process contains. Moreover, the space representations of the mediatized society and the extension of media logic to networking logic are discussed from the point of view of daily life in the network society. The mediatized system of social space has changed with the networking connectivity of information. Traditional media logic is in essence uni-directional time-oriented technological logic aimed at communication effects, while networking logic to a great degree is a multi-dimensional space-oriented logic based on daily life practices. The Internet makes social space, mind space and physical space nested and separated. Seemingly as the result of the extension of media technologies, the network society is actually the projection of social interaction. Future research shall pay attention to how to connect interactive relationships in network space and how to integrate the issues of time and space.