Exploring How the Newsroom Shapes Chinese Viewers’ Perception of Journalism

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.220105.261How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Journalism; The Newsroom; Popular culture; TV series; Media

Abstract

HBO’s political drama, The Newsroom, portrayed an American news station undergoing changes in its working ethics. Its portrayal of politics and journalism has sparked discussions among its viewers, and several research have probed into the influence of The Newsroom. This paper aims to present a proposal of exploring how The Newsroom shapes the attitudes towards American politics and journalism of viewers of this show in China. It is hypothesized that Chinese viewers would have a generally positive attitudes towards the two aforementioned factors based on Cultivation Theory from the field of communication. Structured interview and the word cloud analysis will be used as an analysis of the responses from participants. It is proposed that the results would indicate that while the general views of the audience would be positive, there could also be some respondents who do not hold an entirely positive view with regard to actual American journalism due to the perceived idealism of the show.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yian Lin
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/01/17
TI  - Exploring How the Newsroom Shapes Chinese Viewers’ Perception of Journalism
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Social Development and Media Communication (SDMC 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1423
EP  - 1426
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220105.261
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220105.261
ID  - Lin2022
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