How China’s flagship news program frames “the West”: Foreign news coverage of CCTV’s Xinwen Lianbo before and during Xi Jinping’s presidency

This study investigates how Xinwen Lianbo, a prestigious TV news program and a key propaganda tool of the Chinese Communist Party, framed a bloc of Western countries in its foreign news coverage in the period 2010-2015. The results of the content analysis performed in this study revealed that mixed and diverse images of the West were portrayed by the program. Interestingly, significantly more negative frames of these countries were identified after Xi Jinping took office in late 2012, which signaled a pivotal event in terms of China’s foreign policy. However, Xi’s speech to Chinese media workers on 19 August 2013 did not have additional effects on the program’s framing of the West.     

Framing Megan Williams

This study examines mainstream television news coverage of the kidnapping and rape of Megan Williams in late 2007 and coverage of Williams' recantation in 2009. The publicity of this case provides a unique opportunity to scrutinize the under-examined topics of news coverage of white-on-black rape and white female perpetration. Feminist and critical media studies perspectives are called upon to provide an understanding of hegemonic discourses of gendered violence in media discourse. The intersection of race and class with such discourse is examined. Content and discourse analysis methods allow a critical examination of coverage of the Williams' story on four of the most watched television news sources in America. Results reveal disturbing trends in the framing of white-on-black perpetration. Additionally, stark differences in ideological constructions of rape and race are found among the news outlets examined, suggesting that some news sources do more to reproduce raced and gendered discourses of privilege than others.     

框架理论对第三人称代词深层回指的解释力

认知语言学认为,语篇指称理论不仅满足于描写指称词语在语篇内的具体所指,还要揭示听/读者在理解指称关系时所依赖的认知结构和心理过程。这一过程是建立心理表征的心智过程,因此指称关系的内涵应包含心理表征结构中的相关信息。构建认知框架在理解第三人称代词深层回指过程中发挥着重要作用。     

Measuring Intergenerational Time Preference: Are Future Lives Valued Less?

Prior research has estimated intergenerational time preferences by asking respondents to choose between hypothetical life saving programs. From such choices, researchers have concluded that the public heavily discounts the lives of people in future generations. However, using a multiversion survey involving 401 respondents, I show that imputed intergenerational time preferences can be dramatically affected by the specific question that is asked. Different elicitation procedures can yield widely varying results by evoking or suppressing various relevant considerations (such as uncertainty). Many formats revealed no preference for current generations over future generations.     

Framing,probability distortions,and insurance decisions

A series of studies examines whether certain biases in probability assessments and perceptions of loss, previously found in experimental studies, affect consumers' decisions about insurance. Framing manipulations lead the consumers studied here to make hypothetical insurance-purchase choices that violate basic laws of probability and value. Subjects exhibit distortions in their perception of risk and framing effects in evaluating premiums and benefits. Illustrations from insurance markets suggest that the same effects occur when consumers make actual insurance purchases.Presented at the Conference onMaking Decisions about Liability and Insurance, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 6–7 December, 1991. This research is supported by National Science Foundation Grant SES88-09299. The authors thank Jon Baron, Colin Camerer, Neil Doherty, Paul Kleindorfer, Amos Tversky, and two anonymous referees for many helpful comments. We particularly acknowledge the efforts of Matthew Robinson and Penny Pollister for their help with data analysis.     

有限理性对开放式基金业绩 － 流量关系的影响

首次探究了投资者情绪和"追逐基金分拆"两个有限理性因素对基金"业绩-流量关系"(performance-flow relationship,PFR)的影响,及其影响机制,并用投资者的框架效应、锚定效应、有限关注和迎合理论进行了解释.首先,文章充分论证了我国基金投资者存在明显的业绩追逐行为,国内开放式基金市场不存在"赎回异象".其次,发现投资者的有限理性会影响其理性行为:投资者情绪和"追逐基金分拆"不但对基金的净流入有显著正向影响,对基金的"业绩-流量关系"也有显著影响;投资者情绪会增强基金流量对绝对业绩的敏感度,但是会减弱对相对业绩的敏感度,同时也会弱化"明星效应";分拆会同时减弱基金流量对基金绝对和相对业绩的敏感度,但是不影响"明星效应".第三,投资者情绪和基金业绩均是通过投资者的申购行为,而不是赎回行为而影响基金流量.最后,进一步论证了基金投资者对基金分拆以及情绪噪音的非理性追逐会损害其长期投资收益.