[Commlist] new book: Media and Conflict in the Social Media Era in China

Media and Conflict in the Social Media Era in China  (Palgrave Macmillan)
Author: Shixin Ivy Zhang


Customer can order it via 
https://www.springer.com/in/book/978-981-15-7634-8 
<https://www.springer.com/in/book/978-981-15-7634-8>
ISBN 978-981-15-7635-5

Book description:
-Provides up-to-date empirical evidence drawing on case studies and 
textbased social media analysis.
-Examines the Sino-Indian border crisis, the Senkaku (Diaoyu) Islands 
dispute, South China Sea dispute and North Korea nuclear crisis in 2017 
and 2018.
-Bases quantitative content analysis and qualitative textual analysis on 
the Global Times’ news posts and users’ comments on Weibo, China’s 
leading microblogging site.

This book explores the media and conflict relationship in the age of 
social media through the lens of China. Inspired by the concepts of 
medialization of conflict and actor-network theory, this book centers on 
four main actors in wars and conflicts: social media platform, 
mainstream news organizations, online users and social media content. 
These four human and non-human actors associate, interact and negotiate 
with each other in the social media network. The central argument is 
that social media is playing an enabling role in contemporary wars and 
conflicts. Both professional media outlets and web users employ the 
functionalities of social media platforms to set, counter-set or expand 
the online public agenda. Social media platform embodies a web of 
technological and human complexities with different actors, factors, 
interests, and power relations. These four actors and the macro 
social-political context are influential in the medialization of 
conflict in the social media era.

Table of content

Chap 1. Introduction: Media and conflict studies in the social media age
Chap 2. China's social media platforms: Weibo
Chap 3. Sino-Indian Border crisis in 2017
Chap 4. Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands dispute in 2017-2018
Chap 5. South China Sea Dispute in 2018
Chap 6. North Korea nuclear crisis in 2018
Chap 7. Conclusion

Author's bio:
Shixin Ivy Zhang (Ph.D. University of Leeds) is Associate Professor in 
Journalism Studies at University of Nottingham Ningbo China. She is the 
author of two research monographs entitled /Impact of Globalization on 
the Local Press in China /(2014) and /Chinese War 
Correspondents/:/Covering Wars and Conflicts in the 21st 
Century/ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).


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