The U.S.–China Trade War

Ha and Willnat have achieved a major advance in the comparative study of news media coverage in application to an issue of great topical significance and concern in international relations. Embedded in agenda-setting and framing theory, the volume empirically and comprehensively analyzes the impacts of media structure, professional and user-generated journalism practice, and audience behaviors, as these range across legacy and digital media and through frames of war and peace. It identifies prevailing media narratives of threat and survival as worrying indications of potential future conflict.—Oliver Boyd-Barrett, professor emeritus, College of Arts and Sciences, Bowling Green State University, and coeditor, Media Imperialism: Continuity and Change
 

Solid, comprehensive, and comparative in perspective, this collection of empirical studies makes a timely and important contribution to our understanding of news framing and public opinion on a global issue across media systems in a digitizing world.—Joseph M. Chan, emeritus professor of Journalism and Communication, School of Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong

This book is insightful, analytic, and rigorous. Ha and Willnat and their constellation of communication scholars dissected the U.S.–China trade war and exhaustively examined how the trade war was framed by traditional and social media and Chinese and U.S. media, as well as partisan and government media. This book serves as an exemplar for future book authors wishing to study an international event; how public opinions are formed around it; and its many political, cultural, and economic implications.—Shuhua Zhou, professor and Leonard H. Goldenson Endowed Chair in Radio and Television Journalism, Missouri School of Journalism, University of Missouri