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Construction on Environmental News

Author: ShenYue
Tutor: ZhouZhiJia
School: Xiamen University
Course: Sociology
Keywords: Environmental News Waste Incineration Content Analysis MediaConstruction
CLC: D669
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2014
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Abstract

As the path of urbanization been increased fast in China, the phenomenon of "Garbage siege" is faced by many areas. Therefore, it is a tricky problem of waste disposal in the process of urban development. However, traditional methods such as compost and dumping cannot burden the pressure of garbage growth. Waste incineration, as replaced, has stepping on the stage to deal with this difficulty in recent years. Yet, this new measure is related to various interest groups, trigger to a lot of social controversy, and naturally become as media sensation. Consequently, this paper intend to analysis paper media———New Express on the event of waste incineration, try to investigate how the traditional media illustrate and construct such kinds of cases. Meanwhile, with a relatively objective point, dissect what the role of media trying to play through reporting the news, and the reason behind all these surface phenomena. This study can help us understand the way that how media legitimately constructs environement issue, within various interests, impact and promote democratic and open dialogue within various stakeholders.Based on the specialty and striking example of waste incineration event in Guangzhou Panyu, this paper take a local metropolis daily New Express as our study object, and select the news mention about"waste incineration", with further treatment of covered content under the method of media content analysis, this paper try to illustrate and explain the following issues:First, Using data description and cross-over analysis to inspect the way media report waste incineration event with report trend、 news sources、news types、text theme and perspectives under the angles of vertical and horizontal; Second, draw a preliminary conclusions through those analysis; At last, together with relevance theories and references, explain media construction methods on waste incineration event and the reason, and what part do they take in during this whole process, at the same time, intend to have a guiding significance towards a democratic communication of media coverage through answering those question. Research findings, face to the emergency incident, a great attention has been given by media, in the context of a metropolis daily, New Express by a large margin, using pure news and comment to report various kinds of interactions mainly between governments and the public, and try its best to make different interests meet the half way from all kinds of perspectives; Throughout the whole report process, New Express had found its way from merely pay attention to the environmental issue to a more sensitive question———the power behind the events; Although there lies a lot of factors that influence how the environmental news be constructed, media in this case has naturally jumped out from a communication stage supplier to a participator or even a guider that shows a strong power on construction in this event.

Construction on Environmental News

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