The systemic transformation of mainstream media requires upholding the Party’s principles, serving the people, adhering to facts, and maintaining correct public opinion guidance. It demands pursuing truth, defending public welfare, and advancing progress as core values. This transformation aims to achieve “deep cultivation” and “integration” in content production, multichannel synergy in dissemination, and innovation in discourse systems. While embracing technologydriven innovation, we must guard against risks of alienation. We should strengthen the political literacy of media personnel, enhance professional capabilities, cultivate exemplary work ethics, and advance theoretical innovation grounded in practical experience.

In the era of new media, the concept of a Community with Shared Future for Mankind has rich connotations. It not only provides theoretical guidance for the international dissemination of Chinese culture but also facilitates the understanding and recognition of Chinese values across different cultures through cultural communication. This, in turn, helps shape the Chinese national image and strengthen the sense of a shared Chinese national identity. With the development of international communication technologies, new media have promoted crosscultural communication and enhanced the effectiveness of spreading the concept of a Community with Shared Future for Mankind. Accordingly, the study uses the online short drama Escape from the British Museum and the short video I turned the Woodshed into a ForestThemed Closet as examples to examine the multidimensional dissemination strategies of cultural symbols in media fields. It incorporates the fluidity and interactivity of cultural symbols into the agenda of Chinese cultural dissemination. The paper suggests that empathetic communication and embodied participation can expand the dissemination paths of Chinese culture, and that empathic communication can deepen the understanding of Chinese cultural symbols, thereby promoting cultural communication and exchange. Finally, the concept of a Community with Shared Future for Mankind can be advanced through the field of cultural communication.

With the evolution of the media, especially in recent years, the rise and development of VLOG have prompted the carrying form of the diary. Based on this, this study adopts the research method of digital nationality, and uses Bilibili as the investigation field, focusing on 75 mobile youth video diary creators in 5 cities across the country, and in depth analysis of the complexity between the content of video production and identity construction relation. Studies have found that “living alone” exposes the dual features presented by the digital interface as a means of identity construction: on the one hand, users use new tools to redesign their selfdisplay strategies; on the other hand To increase the platform’s control of identity reshaping and connection. Therefore, the status identity research in the digital media era requires both the subjectivity of the individual and the reshaping of the identity of the digital technology. In addition, under the dual dimension of individuals and platforms, think about the best balance between social connection and integration under the perspective of technology empowerment.

In the intelligent communication environment where news organizations and digital platforms operate jointly, generative artificial intelligence has significantly improved content production and interaction efficiency, yet it has also given rise to the hidden and accumulating risk of “AI sycophancy.” Based on a yearlong investigation of mainstream media organizations, internet companies, content governance platforms, and news practitioners, this study employs multiple case studies and grounded theory, and constructs a fourstage analytical model—“driversmanifestationsrisksgovernance”—within the framework of risk society theory. The findings indicate that the drivers of AI sycophancy stem from the combined effects of model training biases, user interaction cues, and platform governance logics; its manifestations exhibit stable structures across content softening, stance following, and value alignment; its risks accumulate and spill over across the three dimensions of news practice, platform information, and governance systems. Correspondingly, governance pathways have gradually formed a systematized framework comprising technical governance, platform governance, and organizational governance. The analysis provides a new theoretical lens and practical reference for understanding and regulating institutionalized soft risks in the context of generative artificial intelligence.

Short video addiction and the time distortion it induces have emerged as a hallmark phenomenon of the digital era. This study focuses on college students, employing structural equation modeling and indepth interviews to elucidate the underlying mechanisms by which short video addiction and time distortion interact. The findings indicate that algorithmdriven recommendations, immersive experiences, “detemporalized” user interfaces, and fragmented narratives collectively contribute to addictive viewing behaviors and exacerbate time distortion. Furthermore, insufficient metacognitive abilities in the digital media age hinder users’effective selfregulation, thereby perpetuating an internal cycle of “short video addictiontime distortionfailed adjustmentshort video addiction.” Based on these insights, the study recommends fostering a “digital clock” mindset and enhancing users’“active metacognition” to perceive realworld temporal dynamics. Such interventions can assist users in mitigating short video addiction, regaining embodied control over time, and restoring awareness of authentic social rhythms.

Establishing a scientifically sound and effective evaluation framework constitutes a critical task for countylevel integrated media centers as they advance systemic transformation. Drawing upon the “LegitimacyEffectiveness” theoretical framework, this study designs an evaluation indicator system to assess the role of countylevel integrated media centers in grassroots social governance. The proposed system comprises five firsttier indicators and twentyfive secondtier indicators. The Delphi method is employed to validate and refine these specific indicators, aiming to provide a rigorous assessment of the performance of countylevel integrated media centers in grassroots governance. According to this framework, achieving a dynamic equilibrium between legitimacy and effectiveness is essential to maximizing participatory performance and fulfilling the institutional mandate of countylevel integrated media centers as key actors in grassroots social governance.

Fei Xiaotong has many interactions with intercultural communication in terms of disciplinary origins and life experiences. The article combines the theory of three circles to summarize the content of Fei Xiaotong’s intercultural communication thoughts. In the study of the core circle, he applies intercultural comparison between China and the West. The idea of the pattern of diversity in unity of the Chinese nation has been put forward from the study of ethnic minorities as the middle circle and extended to the understanding of the world multiculture. From China to the overseas world as the outer circle, he puts forward the mental order and intercultural consensus system. Cultural consciousness and the concern for human being are the conceptual impetus that supports him to cross between different cultural circles. Fei Xiaotong’s intercultural communication thoughts are not lacking in inspiration for the research and practice of Chinese intercultural communication. The problems of intercultural communication that he thought about to a certain extent represent the collective cultural concerns of Chinese intellectuals under the civilizational changes in modern times, which may be used as an entry point to open up the possibility of exploring the history of the local intercultural communication thoughts.

The Mongolia and Tibet Monthly documented the central government’s efforts in promoting education, transportation, postal services, and telecommunications in Tibetan regions, as well as the interactions and integration between the Han nationality and Tibetan. It serves as a historical source for the study of border minority nationality regions during this period. On the one hand, leveraging its regional presence, the journal promptly communicated central government decrees and interpreted ethnic policies to Tibetan communities, laying a political foundation for consolidating and developing ethnic unity. On the other hand, it emphasized cultural exchange and communication between Han and Tibetan peoples, establishing a media basis for interethnic engagement and integration. Furthermore, as a medium of interaction, the journal traced historical memories and fostered ethnic identity, effectively utilizing historical heritage as a psychological guide in strengthening national solidarity. During the special period of the War of Resistance against Japan, it also played a spiritually guiding role in advocating ethnic unity and mobilizing the entire nation for the war effort.

This study examines all People’s Daily items that explicitly mention “online literature” published between 1999 and 2024. Combining frame analysis with critical discourse analysis, it traces 757 valid news pieces across twentyfive years to map the paper’s shifting discursive registers and to offer a vantage point on the industrialization of Chinese online literature. Three steps are taken. First, the volume and evaluative tone of coverage are tracked over time. Second, six recurrent interpretive frames—“cultural mission,” “technologydriven change,” “risk warning,” “policy discipline,” “social interaction,” and “economic empowerment”—are identified and their diachronic competition is analyzed. Finally, the interplay between news texts and broader sociocultural practices is discussed in four distinct historical periods, revealing the evolving logic through which China’s flagship newspaper has constructed the meaning of online literature and the contemporary implications of that construction.

During the more than two decades from the late 1970s to the early 21st century (December 1978-2002),knowledge production and knowledge system construction of Chinese journalism have traversed a path of historic transformative significance, occupying a pivotal, connecting role in the history of contemporary Chinese journalism development. The launch of reform and opening up has brought Chinese modernized journalism back on track and also enabled contemporary Chinese academic knowledge production and knowledge system construction activities to return to the right path, ushering in a springtime of the era. During these twentythree or four years, Chinese journalism, based on China’s reality, has reestablished the scientific spirit of seeking truth from facts. It has not only restored the original appearance of Marxist journalistic thought but also achieved research results with long-term influence. It has also achieved fruitful research results in various branches of historical journalism, theoretical journalism, applied journalism, and interdisciplinary journalism. From the perspective of knowledge production, and in the sense of traditional journalism, it has established the basic framework of China’s independent journalistic knowledge system, laying a solid foundation for Chinese journalism research and the construction of an independent knowledge system in the digital and intelligent era of the 21st century.

The Wall Newspaper, through its extensive penetration into grassroots social spaces and deep involvement in the everyday lives of the masses, established a media foundation for emotional mobilization. Its content production adhered to the principles of “improving writing style” and “public participation in publication”, employing plain, relatable language to strengthen emotional identification and a sense of engagement among the people. The masses were not merely passive recipients of information; rather, by participating in the creation process, they realized selfidentification and emotional coconstruction. At the same time, the Party and the government, through institutional organization and standardized content management, effectively directed the emotions stimulated by the Wall Newspaper toward the objectives of the war of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, thereby transforming emotional mobilization into political mobilization. As a grassroots propaganda medium during a specific historical period, the Wall Newspaper successfully integrated emotional mobilization with social integration, offering valuable insights for contemporary practices in news and publicity work.

The photographic images from America’s “Westward Expansion” profoundly influenced the public’s perception and imagination of the West, growing in tandem as a “new medium” with a “new place”. In fact, the emergence of photographic imagery did not immediately transform the viewing habits of Americans or their imagination of the West. Historical examination reveals that only when “reproducibility” was unleashed, photographic equipment gradually matured, text began to integrate with photographic images, and photographers deliberately mimicked elements from painting, did photography start to dominate the visual market, bringing the “distant West” closer to the public’s imagination. Different forms of imagery complemented and combined to form a media community that stimulated imagination. The fusion of text and imagery created a narrative community, while the US government, through its funding of Western photography, constructed the mainstream discourse of “Westward Expansion”. The process by which Americans imagined the "New West" through photographic images was not entirely seamless. The interactions among various media forms also provide insights for reflecting on intelligent imagery today.

This paper explores strategic silence within the context of Chinese culture and indigenous public relations practices, systematically analyzing its theoretical foundations, ontological essence, and practical logic. Strategic silence is not a passive “nonPR” stance or a deceptive “renunciation of PR”; rather, it is a proactive strategy within crisis communication—a deliberative decision situated between speech and nonspeech.While crisis PR addresses “disruption” and positive PR pursues “construction”, strategic silence functions as “accumulation”. Its unique value lies in integrating the dual logic of “timely loss mitigation” in crisis PR with “transformative growth” in positive PR. However, when silence degenerates into social performance or a tool for evading responsibility, it exacerbates legitimacy crises instead of restoring trust.Drawing on Chinese sociocultural norms such as appropriateness, selfcultivation for public harmony, and consistency between words and deeds, this study refines the concept of situation in Situational Crisis Communication Theory into three dimensions: law, reason, and emotion. It further proposes a strategic silence practice model consisting of accumulating momentum through silence, establishing legitimacy through action and achieving symbiosis through communication. This research highlights the innovation of an independent knowledge system and provides theoretical and practical references for crisis communication and trust reconstruction for Chinese organizations.

The Internet has become a primary source of health information while also facilitating the circulation of health misinformation. Owing to agerelated physiological changes and limited digital literacy, middleaged and elderly individuals are particularly vulnerable to health misinformation and may play an important role in its diffusion. However, empirical research focusing on this population remains limited. Drawing upon the StimulusOrganismResponse (SOR) framework and integrating cognitive and emotional constructs from health communication research, this study investigates the psychological processes linking online health information seeking to health misinformation sharing among middleaged and elderly adults. Structural equation modeling based on a survey indicates that seeking online health information is positively associated with health information overload and health anxiety. Perceived information overload is further associated with heightened health anxiety, which in turn is positively related to the likelihood of sharing health misinformation. In addition, eHealth literacy only negatively moderates the relationship between online health information seeking and overload. Theoretical and practical implications are further discussed.

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.

Based on the practical experience of major news media organizations worldwide in carrying out intelligent transformation, this paper systematically examines the reshaping of journalistic formats by artificial intelligence (AI) technology as a structural force. With the continuous innovation of AI technology and its indepth intervention in the journalistic field, the journalistic production model has undergone a paradigm shift from machine assistance to humanmachine collaboration. At the same time, through transformation strategies such as laying out AI strategies, building intelligent infrastructure, and cooperating with external actors like large technology companies, news media have also made structural adjustments at the organizational level to adapt to the intelligent trend. Under the trend of indepth integration of AI and journalism, it is necessary to be vigilant against the value crisis where “agentcentered journalism” overrides “humancentered journalism” caused by AI’s own technical vulnerabilities and its unregulated expansion in the journalistic field. Journalism should take “innovation” and “ethics” as its value anchors to calibrate the applicable boundaries of intelligent technology. It should then continuously optimize strategic decisions regarding the development and deployment of artificial intelligence, construct an organizational management system oriented toward humanmachine collaboration, and proactively disclose the use of artificial intelligence to the outside world, so as to build a responsible integrated artificial intelligence framework and ultimately move toward an intelligent journalism characterized by the harmonious coexistence of humans and machines.

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.

Lu Xun, as a symbol of political capital derived from cultural capital, was an object of contention between the Kuomintang of China (KMT) and the Communist Party of China (CPC). Constructing Lu Xun’s image as a ritual, the KMT and CPC utilized their respective central party newspapers, namely the Central Daily News and the Yan’an’s Jiefang Daily, to commemorate him. This emphasized a communicative landscape where the discourse of the two parties converged and conflicted through the construction of Lu Xun’s image. The reverence and praise for Lu Xun’s literary achievements and antiimperialist and antifeudal thoughts demonstrated the homogeneity of the communication of the KMT and CPC’s political discourse. However, when Lu Xun’s critical discourse conflicted with the political discourse of the parties, the logic of discourse employed by the CPC, characterized by praise, elevation, and rewriting, was proved to be clashing with the KMT’s pattern of concealing, belittling, and suppressing discourse, which revealed the conflicting nature of political discourse communication. Ultimately, the CPC achieved a functional substitution of Lu Xun’s spirit to guide intellectuals obtaining cultural recognition and political allegiance. While, the KMT’s cold treatment and rebuttal in the newspaper led to cultural alienation among intellectuals. The difference of news discourses resulted in different communication effect. Its communicative nature is rooted in the struggle for discourse power based on the will of political parties and political reality, aiming at strengthening their legitimacy, authority and ideological dominance.

The current research on journalism history lacks effective methods for theoretical construction of historical phenomena. Among them, although the comparative method is widely used, it lacks systematic exploration. From the perspective of epistemology, comparative studies break through the limitations of rational historiography and historicism, transcend absolutism and relativism, and conform to the materialist conception of history. They are the methodological key to innovating the research on the history of journalism. In recent years, comparative historical analysis methods have gradually matured, encompassing specific approaches such as variable orientation (like statistical comparison and Boolean algebra comparison) and case orientation (like Millian comparison and narrative comparison). These methods have a preliminary foundation and broad prospects in the research of domestic journalism history. Overall, comparative historical analysis holds unique value in the basic process, constituent elements and goal exploration of journalism history research, and it is a metamethod for constructing an autonomous knowledge system in journalism.

Political mobilization has been the key instruments of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in achieving success throughout its revolutionary and nationbuilding processes. Since its founding, the CPC has explored and developed a unique and effective set of political mobilization strategies. This study takes documentary images—including stone inscriptions, news photography, and newsreel films—as its objects of analysis, and examines them through the theoretical lenses of motivational response and mobilization framing. It analyzes the political mobilization framework and mobilization concepts embodied in the CPC’s documentary imagery during the New Democratic Revolution period. The findings reveal that CPC documentary images adopted distinct mobilization strategies across three dimensions: Emotionally, they applied an “antagonistic frame amplification” strategy, emphasizing the CPC’s superiority and constructing the belief that the Party could lead the people “toward a brighter future.” Cognitively, they employed an “interest frame extension” strategy, highlighting the political and economic benefits attained by the people under CPC leadership, thereby conveying the notion that the people could “become masters of their own destiny.” Instrumentally, they utilized a “demonstrative frame transformation” strategy, showcasing exemplary models and their deeds to underscore the CPC’s capacity to mobilize and lead the masses in “building a new China.” Together, these mobilization frames and concepts reflect the CPC’s peoplecentered ideological framework, which constitutes the core essence for understanding the Party’s political mobilization and, more broadly, its political practice.

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.

Freedom of the press is an important part of Lenin’s journalistic thought, and most of the existing studies analyze it on the basis of Lenin’s original texts, while fewer examine it from the perspective of evolution. As a matter of fact, Lenin’s thought of freedom of the press, like all his ideas of the press, has developed and evolved along with the practice of revolution and socialist construction. Therefore, the essence of his thought can only be fully and deeply understood in the specific historical context in which he engaged in revolution and politics. This paper systematically reviews and analyzes the development and evolution of Lenin’s thought of freedom of the press in the historical context of his revolution and politics, and then reveals its main characteristics. This paper argues that Lenin’s thought of freedom of the press is closely related to his revolutionary and political practice, while Lenin’s core view of freedom of the press from a class standpoint has remained unchanged, and finally that an important aspect of Lenin’s thought of freedom of the press is the provision of practical material guarantees for freedom of the press.

The Yang Cuixi case served as a media event that foreshadowed the Dingwei Political Conflict. QuCen Group and YiYuan Group had been competing for media resources. During the conflict, domestic newspapers exposed the corrupt behavior of Yi Kuang and his son, dispelling the Qing Dynasty’s rule of secrecy and becoming the main force of political supervision. Meanwhile, foreign newspapers were inquiring into political developments and establishing intelligence networks. They also used international public opinion to support Yuan Shikai and then interfered in political affairs. Different political groups dealt with the media between respect and cooptation, manufacturing and manipulation. Ultimately, YiYuan Group defeated its opponents by concocting fake photo incidents and creating revolutionary discourse. New media provided a novel set of narrative frameworks, relational network, and discursive patterns, that were consistently regarded as political resources. The trend of “mediatized politics” initially emerged in the late Qing Dynasty.

This study takes the practical paradigm of media research as the entry point, employs actor network as the analytical tool, and examines the information dissemination network of ancient Chinese post stations as the research object. This study aligns five aspects of media practice research—the definition of media, the constituent elements of media practices, media practice behaviors under media rituals, the operational modes of media practice activities, and the social impacts of media practices—with the foundation, elements, process, mechanisms, and value of network construction in actornetwork theory. It reviews the basis of the construction of the information dissemination network of the post station, shows the elements of the construction of the information dissemination network of the post station, traces the process of the construction of the information dissemination network of the post station, explores the construction mechanism of the information dissemination network of the post station. The exploration of constructing an information dissemination network of the post station can provide inspiration and serve as a valuable reference for forging consensus and promoting the sense of community of the Chinese nation.

Faced with multiple stressors like exam failure, seeking and obtaining social support is an important approach for youth group to cope with stress. Support matching is a key factor affecting the effectiveness of social support, but few research has explored the support matching situation in online communities. This research used posts from the Douban Group “Exam Failure Comfort Association” as the research object, analyzed 196 posts and 7228 replies via content analysis, aiming to investigate the current status of demand and supply for social support, and support matching situation among youth group. The results show that threequarters of the support needs in online communities was responded by others, and both major demand and supply were emotional support. The average match rate of social support is 073, with the highest match rate for information assessment needs and the lowest match rate for seeking empathy, comfort, and encouragement. This research described the dialogue mechanism of online communities seeking social support from the perspective of support matching, and revealed the important role of social support in the formation and development of online communities.

The incidence of cardiovascular disease among young adults in China has risen in recent years, underscoring the need for more effective health communication strategies. Drawing on framing effect theory, narrative theory, and construal level theory, this study examines how combinations of message features influence young adults’ intentions to engage in cardiovascular healthpromoting behaviors. A 2 (message framing: gain vs. loss) × 2 (narrative perspective: firstperson vs. thirdperson) × 2 (message format: numerical vs. textual) betweensubjects experiment was conducted, with anxiety examined as a central emotional mechanism linking message characteristics to behavioral intention. The results showed that lossframed messages elicited higher levels of anxiety, particularly when combined with numerical information and a firstperson narrative. In contrast, under gain framing, firstperson narratives reduced anxiety among young adults. Moderated mediation analyses further revealed that anxiety most strongly mediated the relationship between message and behavioral intention under the combined condition of loss framing, numerical format, and firstperson perspective. These findings advance understanding of how framing, narrative perspective, and construalrelated message features jointly shape persuasive outcomes and offer practical guidance for designing targeted cardiovascular disease prevention messages for young adults.

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.

On the 40th anniversary of the seminal journalism concept of “paradigm repair”, this study meticulously examines its evolving applications and theoretical shifts. The study reveals that the conceptual evolution manifests at four levels: the motivation for repair has shifted from addressing internal anomalies to resisting external systemic shocks, the theoretical scope has expanded from a Westerncentric focus to diverse global contexts, the subject of analysis has moved downward from elite institutions to individuals and audiences, and the theoretical core has evolved from a single concept into a multifaceted integration with theories such as boundary work. This also signifies that “paradigm repair” has undergone a fundamental transformation, from a descriptive tool explaining the “defensive maintenance” of the profession to a critical framework analyzing its “agentic rearticulation”. The driving force behind this shift lies in the continuous dissolution and reshaping of professional community boundaries in the digital age. This study traces the complete trajectory of this classical concept from its inception, through its expansion, to its deepening, and points the way for its future development in the “postparadigm era”.

This article takes three highly distinctive journalism concepts with Chinese characteristics, namely “overall authenticity”, “Party spirit and people’s spirit”, and “public opinion supervision”, as the starting point for summarizing the basic appearance of Chinese characteristic journalism in the early stage of reform and opening up. Based on the journalism theory publication Xinwen Lilun Yu Shijian (1979—1989) compiled and printed by Gansu Daily, it is found that the theoretical exploration of the concepts of journalism in the early stage of reform and opening up, while consciously distinguishing it from the journalism theories of the Soviet Union and other countries, not only inherited the historical tradition of China’s journalism industry, but also responded to the era’s propositions in the early stage of reform and opening up. More importantly, it provided an early theoretical prototype for the establishment of the iconic concepts of Chinese characteristic journalism in the future. This actually constituted the exploration process of early reform and openingup Chinese journalism in finding theoretical coordinates and practical anchor points between “upholding integrity” and “innovation”.

Started in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, comics are an important invention of popular reading literature in the 20th century. Publishers, represented by World Book, actively explored and practiced the commercial marketing of comics in the early days, which led to a shortlived boom in the advertising of comics. However, as the underlying reading audience of comics became increasingly clear and stereotyped, the publishers’ route of advertisements in wellknown newspapers did not establish an effective link between comics and their readers in the marketplace. With the emergence and popularization of comic rental stalls, comic advertisements showed a developmental trajectory from boom to bust. This paper examines the development trajectory, narrative style, and marketing strategy of comic advertisements in the Republican period in order to get a glimpse of the commercialization of the reading culture during the period.

Journalism textbooks are consensus documents about the journalism professional knowledge, which constructed the fundamental systems of journalism knowledge and discourse. This article investigates the reading community of modern journalism textbooks, which was neglected by previous studies, by introducing the perspective of reading history. It suggests that this reading community consisted of journalism students, professional journalists and ordinary youth. These textbooks not only spread journalism knowledge, but also constructed their readers professional identity. They have jointly shaped the interpretive community based on the textbooks reading, at the same time, taken part in the construction of whole journalism community that was still in development.

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.

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.

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.

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.

“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.

The “refusal-to-answer” mechanism of generative AI has spurred adversarial user practices aimed at inducing the AI to bypass safety boundaries through “rule-breaking prompts.” Based on the perspective of human-machine co-construction construction, this study employs qualitative research methods such as focus group interviews and participatory observation to investigate the psychological motivations behind users’ “rule-breaking” behaviors and the accompanying ethical risks. The findings reveal that users’ “rule-breaking” prompt behaviors are often driven by psychological factors such as reactance reinforcement, technological expectations of machine empathy, and self-technological practices. Such behaviors give rise to dual risks in the process of co-construction construction: first, “rule-breaking” experiences are capitalized into new forms of cultural commodities; second, they trigger a recursive cycle of model data contamination. The essence of users’ “rule-breaking” prompt behavior lies in the issue of safety boundaries within human-machine co-construction construction. Moving forward, efforts should be directed toward guiding users to transition from “system challengers” to “ethical co-creators,” ultimately achieving a state of “acting with freedom yet without overstepping boundaries” in human-AI dialogue.

After the initiation of the Yan’an Rectification Movement, the Liberation Daily failed to adapt to the situation of reforming the three styles. Mao Zedong instructed the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to discuss the revision of the Liberation Daily and elaborated on the concept of utilizing newspapers to conduct work. In the practice of revising the Liberation Daily, Mao’s idea of utilizing newspapers to conduct work was further deepened. The fundamental requirement was to uphold the principle of party character in party newspapers, the essential guarantee was to implement the the whole party to run newspapers policy, while the primary goal was to organize and mobilize the broad masses of military and civilian people. Under the guidance of this concept, the Liberation Daily greatly promoted the Rectification Movement and the Great Production Movement, becoming a sharp tool for the Central Committee to organize and carry out political, economic, cultural, and various other tasks using the newspaper.

The breakthrough in large language model technology has catalyzed a surge in intelligent dialogue tool development, yet the mechanisms influencing continuous usage intention and cross-cultural product differences remain unclear. Based on affordance theory, this study constructs a model encompassing four dimensions—intelligence, anthropomorphism, convenience, and adaptability—and integrates the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and technology trust theory to reveal the pathways through which young Chinese users’ perceptions of technological affordances affect their continuous usage intention toward intelligent dialogue tools. The findings indicate that: (1) overseas products demonstrate superiority through higher intelligence and anthropomorphism, while domestic productsachieve advantages in convenience through localized design; (2) technological affordances influence continuous usage intention through perceived usefulness and ease of use, though in task-oriented scenarios, anthropomorphic features may inversely inhibit efficiency perception; (3) the dual mediating effects of trust and satisfaction are significant. This research provides theoretical models and empirical evidence for optimizing Chinese large language model product design and constructing differentiated technological affordances.

As the first overseas reformist organ post-Wuxu Coup, the Yokohama-based Qingyi Bao occupies a pivotal yet understudied position in modern press history. Utilizing Japanese diplomatic archives, correspondence, and other primary sources, this article investigates how the Kang faction’s pre-existing interpersonal networks and social resources in Japan facilitated the publication’s rapid inception. Preceding the coup, the faction cultivated a network bridging overseas Chinese merchants and Japanese entities via the Yokohama Datong School and Kobe’s Dongya Bao. This foundation nearly produced the Datong Daily; although derailed by the coup, its preparatory groundwork directly catalyzed Qingyi Bao’s swift establishment. Following the coup, the Kang faction’s consolidation in Japan reconstituted these networks, securing essential personnel, funding, and distribution channels. Ultimately, the paper’s genesis and paradigm-shifting radicalization reflect broader historical trajectories—notably Western eastward expansion and the Chinese scholar-gentry’s transformation—thereby advancing the historiography of late Qing journalism.