英文摘要 |
The haze problem in China in recent years has attracted the attention of society, media, and thus the communication academia. Given that existing related media studies have not thoroughly clarified the construction process and the logic of news framing, this study analyzes a total of 575 haze articles from China's mainstream official press, People's Daily, from 2011 to 2017. By adopting van Gorp's inductive-and-then-deductive analytic approach, the study finds that the haze issue is framed mostly as an environmental problem calling for human action and a problem focusing on governmental action. Government officials and experts have been quoted the most, but they function differently by news frame. The results also reflect the political and cultural forces underlying the news framing of haze in China. The study ends with implications of the findings and suggestions for future research and news practice. |