01 October 2023, Volume 12 Issue 5

    

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  Characteristics and Internal Logic of the CPC’s Construction to Discourse System on the Chinese Nation: Based on the Analysis of 20 Reports of the National Congress of the CPC

  Liu Hong, Li Xiayu

  Journalism Evolution. 2023, 12(5): 3-14.

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  This paper uses methods of quantitative word frequency analysis and qualitative text analysis，by selecting the phrases based on the word “nation” in the reports of the National Congress of the CPC as the research object, to summarizes the phased characteristics and internal logic of the CPC's construction to discourse system on the Chinese Nation. We found that since the founding of the CPC, it has been taking national and ethnic unity as its mission, and constructing the discourse system on the Chinese Nation in the direction of enhancing integrity. Its external characteristics can be summarized as “Three have changed and three are invariable”. Three types of words: loanwords, discrimination words and outdated words were quickly abandoned. National Equality, National Unity and Common Prosperity will remain unchanged. Its internal logic is: The concentricity of the CPC and the Chinese Nation; The connectivity between concepts and macro guidance; The consistency between facts and values. With “creating the sense of community for the Chinese nation”, the CPC has been constructing a New Era Discourse System on the Chinese Nation in a triune logic, for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
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  On the changes of Chinese Communist Party’s News Policy during the Agrarian Revolutionary War(1927-1937)

  Sun Fei, Zheng Baowei

  Journalism Evolution. 2023, 12(5): 15-23.

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  During the Agrarian Revolutionary period, with the revolution entering a new historical process, the Communist Party of China’s news propaganda work policy had also undergone corresponding changes. According to the general task of this historical stage, the Party Central Committee clarified the focus and basic tasks of the news propaganda work at this stage and insisted on using the propaganda method according to local conditions to publicize, influence and organize the workers and peasants to join the revolution. At the same time, it explored and established the Red Army’s propaganda work system, the Party’s media management system, the Party’s newspaper communication system and the news agency work system, which enriched the news policy system of the Communist Party of China and made important contributions to the development of the Agrarian Revolutionary War, the great feat of the Red Army’s Long March and the rise of the antiJapanese national salvation movement.
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  Newspaper as a Way of Work: An Important Aspect of the CPC’s Journalism Theory ——Research Based on Tao Zhu’s “Journey to the West”

  Zhang Yongfeng, Shi Hongli

  Journalism Evolution. 2023, 12(5): 24-30.

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  Newspapers as a way of work is an important aspect of the CPC’s journalism theory that points to the Party committees. Through the study of the classic case “Journey to the West” in the history of journalism, this paper shows that Tao Zhu clearly included newspapers in the major decisionmaking agenda of the Party Committees in organizing and presiding over the research in western Guangdong and the writing of “Journey to the West”, and regarded newspapers as an important tool for “flexible and convenient” organization and leadership work, giving full play to the newspaper's policy implementation, inspection work, contact with the masses, finding problems To guide and improve the political function of promoting the overall work and make newspapers become an important way of work of the Party Committees. Tao Zhu’s “Journey to the West” news practice is of great exemplary significance for enriching the research orientation of the party committees of the CPC’s journalism theory and further deepening the understanding of the relationship between the party committees and the party newspaper.
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  Technological Symbols Help Build Chinese National Image——Taking Chinese High-Speed Rail as an Example

  Zhang Yang, Hu Yu

  Journalism Evolution. 2023, 12(5): 31-41.

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  Technological symbols are indispensable to the construction of the national image of contemporary China. As a symbol of technology, it is worth exploring whether Chinese highspeed rail can help construct the national image. Through questionnaire surveys and big data research, we study the fondness for highspeed rail in overseas countries and analyze its influencing factors. We also investigate the content of China’s highspeed rail through overseas social media, Twitter, and other mainstream media. The final results show that China’s highspeed rail is close to the traditional cultural symbols in terms of the degree of fondness and can be shaped and spread through social media. Meanwhile, in the news of social media and overseas media, highspeed rail can represent the crystallization of Chinese wisdom. Therefore, we believe Chinese highspeed rail can be used as a symbol of contemporary science and technology to help build the national image. At the same time, we need to strengthen the publicity of social media to help its dissemination.
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  Exploring Motives of Unverified Information Sharing during Public Health Emergencies

  Huang Qing, Ni Binbin

  Journalism Evolution. 2023, 12(5): 42-50.

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  The widespread misinformation has posed a huge challenge to the management of public health emergencies. Individuals’ unverified information sharing on social media is one of the major causes of the infodemic. Against the backdrop of public health emergencies, this study drew on theories related to information sharing and proposed a multimotive model to explain why people share information without verification. An online survey showed that among the general motives, socialization was positively associated with unverified information sharing, while altruism was negatively associated with unverified information sharing. In terms of the specific motives, information overload, anxiety, and perceived herd were all positively correlated to unverified information sharing. Notably, specific motives explained more variance in unverified information sharing than general motives did. The multimotive model not only integrates and extends previous theories on information sharing, but also highlights the importance of social situation and media use situation in understanding specific communicative behaviors. Practical implications for misinformation management are discussed.
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  Facilitating and Remodeling: The Cause and Effect of Online Sign-In Behaviour during E-Learning among Youth Group

  Fang Gege, Song Hang, Ma Liangying

  Journalism Evolution. 2023, 12(5): 51-62.

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  The flexible time structure of postindustrial society has led to a rising demand for time. Against a backdrop of overeducation and job market involution, online signin behaviour (a popular selftracking practice on the Internet) have emerged among the youth group in the form of digital selftracking practices. Inspired by the SelfDiscrepancy Theory (1987), this study explores the mechanism and bidirectional effects of online signin behaviour during elearning by interviewing 20 users. It is found that such an online signin behaviour is mainly initiated to record and present one’s learning progress, and can be recognised as a practice to bridge differences in selfcognition. The motivation behind this is that users adopt online signin behaviour to facilitate their learning. As a matter of fact, while the social support, supervision mechanism, and quantitative data provided by online signin behaviour have reached an ideal boost effect to a certain extent, the comparative pressure, external punishment, data discipline, and the birth of meritorious subjects in the macro social context all contribute to remodel the selfdiscrepancy among youth group by influencing the individual’s ideal self and ought self. Therefore, the online signin behaviour should go beyond the principle of enjoyment and be wary of undesirable paths under technology dependence, returning to the effectiveness and subjectivity of individual learning behaviour.
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  From Intellectuals to Workers: The “Cross-class” Discourse Strategy and Communication Practice of Early Communist Party Group’s Newspapers

  Gao Lu

  Journalism Evolution. 2023, 12(5): 63-72.

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  After the establishment of the early organizations of the Communist Party of China, uniting andorganizing the masses of workers became an important task, most members of the party organization were communist intellectuals at the same time. How to carry out dialogue among different classes and promote the combination of the labor movement and advanced theories was the main purpose of newspapers of the early party organizations. By analyzing the discourse strategies of “Voice of Labor” and “Workers Weekly” founded by the early Communist Party organizations in Beijing, it could be seen that its target audience was the working class. By special arrangements of news layout, emotional orientation and presentation of issues, these newspapers tried to highlight the core status of the working class，thus to build a close relationship between working class and Communist Party. At the same time, early Communist Party organizations propagated and led the labor movement through the spread of the influence of newspapers, and to promote the process of Chinese social revolution.
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  “Wide Mobilisation” : The Slogan Propaganda of the Chinese Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army in Guizhou

  Yang Yayun

  Journalism Evolution. 2023, 12(5): 73-80.

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  Slogan propaganda is one of the important ways for the Chinese Workers’and Peasants’ Red Army to carry out public opinion propaganda.The slogan propaganda of the Red Army in Guizhou is highly distinctive, which is reflected in the wide area of the slogan released and the various writing methods, among which Guizhou is the most concentrated, and it is a classic case of the propaganda work carried out by the Communist Party of China during the Revolutionary War. The original intention of the Red Army to carry out slogan propaganda was to clarify the facts to the public and counter the slander of the Kuomintang reactionaries. However, the slogan actually became a critical media for propagating the Party’s ethnic policies. These slogans not only played an important role in mobilizing the masses and disintegrating the White Army, but also acted as a bridge connecting the Red Army with the common people, passing the Party’s purposes and tasks to the common people, and effectively cooperated with the implement of revolutionary and military activities.
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  The Emotional State and Hierarchical Relationship of Chinese Journalistic Scholars at Different Stages： An Investigation towards the Contemporary Scholar Group

  Ni Yannian

  Journalism Evolution. 2023, 12(5): 81-89.

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  This paper takes the research activities of the contemporary Chinese journalistic history scholars and the social impact of their achievements as the basic example object. The psychological and emotional experience of Chinese journalistic history scholars at different research stages (referred to as “realm”) is discussed. It’s refined and summarized that the “five realms” are both connected and different. On the basis, hierarchical structure of the psychological feelings of the scholars of the history of Chinese journalism at different stages, namely “Realm”, and the organic relationship between different levels of “realm” are explored.
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  A Study on the Concept of Cultivation in the Neo Confucianism

  Liu Zhen, Zhao Yunze

  Journalism Evolution. 2023, 12(5): 90-95.

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  The development of Chinese history and culture has its unique continuity and inclusiveness, and the concept of cultivation in Neo Confucianism has a profound impact on the propaganda and persuasion ideas of later generations. The article starts with the theoretical basis of the cultivation concept of Neo Confucianism, and argues that the “benevolence” ideology of promoting oneself and others laid the humanistic foundation for the cultivation activities of Neo Confucianism, while also forming the core motivation for cultivation and the diffusion mode of circle and layer; The concept of “group oneself” in Neo Confucianism rationally defined the object of its cultivation, which was not solely aimed at the monarch or the people, but rather aimed at “public” and faced various levels of society; The establishment of orthodox thought established clear goals of affirmation and exclusion for the cultivation of Neo Confucianism. On this basis, Neo Confucianism formed a cultivation method and approach characterized by practicality.