The blurry lines between popular media and party propaganda: China's convergence culture through a linguistic lens.

ABSTRACT: There is a growing body of scholarly evidence that media convergence blurs the boundary between media production and media consumption and obscures the lines between institutions and individuals. Media convergence in the context of China has garnered attention in communication studies and in cultural studies. However, there is a scarcity of research on convergence culture from a linguistic perspective. Recent research has generated initial evidence that state media appropriates a pop-cultural social address for clickbait and information management in China's digital media space. However, the patterns and perceptual reality of linguistic convergence remain unexplored. This study investigates popular and party uses of xiaojiejie 'little older sister', a familiar expression of fictive kinship

SUBMITTER: Lang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10810527 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature