30 May 2026, Volume 15 Issue 3

    

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  Echoes of Bandung: A Historical Examination of the New World Information and Communication Order Movement

  Hu Yu, Chen Changwen

  Journalism Evolution. 2026, 15(3): 3-14.

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  Scholarship on the “New World Information and Communication Order” (NWICO) of the 1970s has largely been framed within a Cold War context, focusing on policy contestations between developing countries and Western nations within UNESCO. Within this narrative, the withdrawal of the United States and the United Kingdom is often treated as the movement’s endpoint. This framing obscures NWICO’s entanglement with Third World internationalism and global decolonization, while reducing internally diverse developing countries to a homogeneous bloc. Revisiting key moments such as the Bandung Conference and the Non睞ligned Movement, this article argues that NWICO was not merely a geopolitical byproduct of the Cold War, but an institutional extension of South睸outh cooperation and the Bandung spirit within global decolonization processes. A close reading of Many Voices, One World (1980) highlights internal heterogeneity within the Global South, including disputes over state intervention in media and negotiations over technology transfer by developed countries. These divergences reflect structural tensions between national interests and their modes of implementation in the decolonization context. At the same time, shared principles—opposition to information monopolies, the defense of information sovereignty, and the pursuit of communicative equality—emerged through these negotiations. NWICO thus exceeded the Cold War diplomatic logic, becoming a key institutional expression of Third World internationalism in communication and leaving a durable intellectual legacy for subsequent efforts to reform the global communication order.
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  A Study of the Systematic Construction of News Popularization in the Yan’an Period

  Jia Haowei, Ji Weimin

  Journalism Evolution. 2026, 15(3): 15-22.

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  “Popularization” is a unique vision and an important path for studying the Party’s news propaganda work. During the Yan’an period, faced with multiple difficulties, such as the demands of the war and the shortage of material conditions, the Party promoted the systematic construction of news popularization in the areas of news gathering and editing, reporting of typical stories, propaganda style, publication and distribution, and grassroots practice, effectively reducing the cost of news production, enhancing the awareness of news propaganda services, implementing the requirements of the concept of mass newspaper, and ultimately strengthening the connection between the Party and the masses and shaping the subjectivity of the mass revolution. The popularization of news represents the integration of “top-down” dissemination and “bottom-up” feedback. By adjusting the narrative logic, dissemination channels, and interaction models of news production, it ensures that news content, form, and dissemination outcomes are made less elitist, more relatable, and more accessible. The underlying logic of this approach is the Party’s mass line. The practices of news popularization during the Yan’an period can provide a localized pathway to overcoming Western-centric perspectives and offer historical grounds for constructing a news theory paradigm with Chinese characteristics.
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  From the Narratology-Ludology Debate to Game Ecology: The Historical Transformation of the Object of Video Game Studies

  Hu Fengbin

  Journalism Evolution. 2026, 15(3): 23-31.

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  Game studies has entered a new phase of epistemic reconfiguration after the narratolog-ludology debate. The text/mechanic dichotomy established by that controversy can no longer account for how game experience is produced under platformization, perpetual updating, and transmedia circulation. Narrative is no longer merely pre-scripted content; it is continually generated through player action, community collaboration, and circuits of mediation. Mechanics, likewise, exceed formal rule systems, extending to platform governance, distribution infrastructures, algorithmic visibility, and commercial operations that shape conduct.This motivates a “game ecology” perspective that situates games, platforms, communities, livestreaming, and datafied infrastructures on a single analytic plane, reinterprets the early debate as disciplinary boundary-work, and shifts the central question from what games are to how they become lived experience and social fact. As a transferable framework, it enables discussions of future game forms and social consequences to move from surface description to structural explanation, while articulating a more actionable agenda for public governance and cultural valuation.
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  Revisiting the Western Heaven: How the Global Success of Chinese Games Became Possible?

  Zhang Zizhong, Lu Mingjiang, Guo Puxin

  Journalism Evolution. 2026, 15(3): 32-44.

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  Using “Black Myth: Wukong” as a case, this study examines the mechanisms enabling Chinese games to succeed overseas. First, a systematic literature review of 63 core Chinese and English studies published between 2010 and 2025 identifies six key factors: (1)Narrative, discourse and cultural symbols; (2)Technological features and player experience; (3)Cultural identity and intercultural interaction; (4)Player agency and social interaction; (5)Platform mechanisms and cultural intermediation; and (6)Institutions and economic structures. Next, an analysis combining topic modeling and explanatory textual analysis of 53468 overseas reviews on the Steam platform validates the model’s applicability and further reveals a context-triggered “particularity” in the game’s circulation. The findings indicate that Chinese games’ overseas success results from a synergy among narrative, technology, and identity, as well as audience reinterpretation and meaning re-production activated by contextual differences. Building on this, the paper proposes a “cross-cultural meaning synergy construction model” that innovatively explains how cultural products are accepted and appreciated across contexts.
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  Confiscate or Co-play? A Study on the Formation and Effects of Parental Digital Device Regulation Strategies —An Empirical Analysis of 301 Families

  Shi Lin, Kuang Jingjie

  Journalism Evolution. 2026, 15(3): 45-57.

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  Against the backdrop of digital games and mobile entertainment being deeply integrated into family life, how parents supervise their children’s use of digital devices has become a common dilemma. Based on the Protection Motivation Theory, this study takes 301 families as samples and adopts a parentchild paired questionnaire to examine how parent’s perceived problematic use and new media literacy affect three types of supervisory approaches: restrictive, monitoring, and discussion-based, and to test the relationships between these approaches and children’s digital addiction and well-being. The results of the structural equation model show that perceived problematic use significantly positively predicts restrictive and monitoring supervision; parents’ new media literacy significantly positively predicts all three types of supervisory approaches, with a stronger predictive effect on discussion-based supervision. In terms of effectiveness, none of the three supervisory approaches have a significant impact on children’s digital addiction, while only discussion-based supervision significantly enhances children’s well-being. The study indicates that in the current family digital life, where digital participation is widespread and characterized by simultaneous screen use, traditional one-way restrictions and technical monitoring are limited in their effectiveness. Supervisory practices with more features of dialogue and negotiation are more conducive to enhancing adolescents’ digital well-being. The empirical research findings provide theoretical and practical implications for addressing the impact of digital devices on family life and parent-child relationships.
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  The War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in Images: The Visual Rhetoric Practice of Woodcuts and Cartoons in Xinhua Daily

  Cai Fei, Li Jiarun

  Journalism Evolution. 2026, 15(3): 58-68.

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  The woodcuts and comics in Xinhua Daily were a vivid form of mobilizing the entire nation for the war. From the perspective of visual rhetoric as the theoretical framework, this article analyzes the woodcuts and comics in Xinhua Daily during the war period, discovering that these artistic images, By constructively presenting the aggressive crimes of Japanese imperialism and the global antifascist struggle situation, it successfully connected the rhetorical context in which the discourse of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression occurred with the social context perceived by the masses, providing rationality for the emergence of the war discourse; by incorporating symbols such as scenes, props, and actions, and reusing and reimagining the character images of men, women, the elderly, children, workers, peasants, soldiers, scholars, and merchants, it completed the image representation and emotional mobilization of the Communist Party of China’s comprehensive and protracted war discourse; through the intertextual relationship between language and images, it fully exerted the anchoring role of the written language in the meaning of the images, ensuring the production and interpretation of the war discourse. Examining the woodcuts and comics in Xinhua Daily from the perspective of visual rhetoric helps to understand the image logic of the Communist Party of China’s war discourse production, and also provides certain references for current mainstream media to improve their visual communication level.
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  Between Competition and Cooperation: A ReExamination of the Press Debates between Constitutionalists and Revolutionaries—A Case Study on the Coverage of the Yang Cuixi Case

  Huang Xinxin, Tan Kun

  Journalism Evolution. 2026, 15(3): 69-77.

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  Studies on the press debates between the constitutionalists and revolutionaries from 1905 to 1907 have mostly focused on the direct overseas debates between Xinmin Congbao and Minbao. By examining the coverage of the late Qing Yang Cuixi case, this article investigates the informal debates between the two factions’ press and proposes two core arguments. First, at the level of political debate, both sides engaged in indirect debates by competing for the right to interpret social events to refute each other and propagate their own political claims. At the level of ideological enlightenment, diverging from the topdown social preaching and the pedagogical posture of educative reasoning seen on the main battlefield, both sides placed greater emphasis on bottomup mobilization and narrative expression. Second, although competition remained the dominant theme in their relationship, they were able to pivot towards cooperation to jointly defend freedom of speech and the interests of the press when facing a legitimacy crisis. This informal cooperation predated the political convergence of the two factions following the establishment of the “Imperial Cabinet”, highlighting the rise of press autonomy and professional consciousness during this period.
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  The Writing of Memory: Re-Examining the “Detoured Propaganda” of the “Shu Sanmin” Newspapers

  Zhou Yefei

  Journalism Evolution. 2026, 15(3): 78-85.

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  This article focuses on the “Shu Sanmin” newspaper system and reexamines its function of historical writing and social mobilization in the late Qing Dynasty. Starting from the “detoured propaganda”, the article explores its lyrical tradition, narrative mechanism and cultural genealogy, and reveals how the “Shu Sanmin” constructed an intertwined and complex public discourse space between the tradition of literary societies, print capitalism and national revolution. There was a close relationship between the “Shu Sanmin” and the Nanshe and the National Essence School. It was not a paradox between its classical literary style and political sentiment, but a reflection of the “retrorevolutionary” complex thinking of the late Qing Dynasty. By recreating historical images and characters such as “leftover mountains and waters”, “warriors” and “martyrs”, the press activated historical memory in the process of cultural invocation, thereby generating revolutionary sentiment. The seemingly “detoured” practice of “Shu Sanmin” can thus be understood as a mode of “mediated writing” that reconstructed historical memory through traditional symbolic resources and, in so doing, facilitated modern political mobilization.
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  Late Qing Novel Propaganda and Reading Politics—Centered on Xin Xiao Shuo(1902-1906)

  Wu Jiaxuan

  Journalism Evolution. 2026, 15(3): 86-95.

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  After the Reform Movement of 1898, reform and revolution became the political vision of the advanced intellectuals of the late Qing Dynasty. The study finds that Xin Xiao Shuo as the first newspaper specially established for publishing novels in modern China, promoted the production of a number of “novels written for newspaper and propaganda”. Xin Xiao Shuo borrowed the distribution network of Xinmin Cong Bao to establish a reading space for new knowledge with the people of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and gathered the authors and readers who were engaged in the reform. Through the transformation of the newspaper media, the content and theme of the novel gradually get close to reality, pay attention to current affairs, and move towards “journalistic”, which accelerates the visibility and diffusion of the world picture, and strengthens the emotional experience of the reading space and the possibility of talking about national affairs in the interpersonal network. The study argues that the propaganda trend at that time strengthened the journalistic nature of literature, and unlike the reading of newspapers and books, the journalistic novel opened up a new interactive experience in the new world between the transfer of text and media, and created a kind of reading politics that combines fiction and reality.