Master's Thesis from the year 2023 in the subject Communications - Media and Politics, Politic Communications, grade: 8.0, Vilnius University, language: English, abstract: This master's thesis delves into the framing of Lithuania's state image by Chinese media since 2020, focusing on the analysis of over 1,200 texts to depict Lithuania in Chinese media. The goal is to comprehend the specific methods and motives behind this media framing and to illuminate the changes in Lithuania's state image from 2020 to August 2022. After screening, collation and analysis of more than 1,200 texts, this research multi-dimensionally and comprehensively displays the state image of Lithuania in the Chinese media from 2020 to August 2022, analysing the specific process and participations of framing Lithuania’s state image by the Chinese media based on framing theory. This research also explores the motives of the Chinese media’s action of framing Lithuania's state image in the particular way and the environment for the success of the Chinese media’s action.

This book provides up-to-date, multidisciplinary analyses of - the major debates surrounding the "national" and the "global" in Chinese media; how the media glorify two global events as national achievements - the accession to the World Trade Organization, and sponsorship of the 2008 Olympics Games; how Chinese youths' images of the United States reveal both a positive domestic life and an negative world hegemony; the implications of the response of the new media to the emergence of "civil society", commercial culture and to the state control of the media; the problems facing the national informatization effort; the conflicting ideologies that impinge on China's media, such as communist ideology, Confucianism, and professional values compatible with capitalist development; and where pop culture sits within "cultural China". Blending Chinese with media studies, the book considers how globalizing forces clash with nationalist feelings as China's media discourses and ideologies evolve. Conversely, the book also asks if the media provide a site and forum for contestation between different social classes and ideologies in China.

"The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.

Seventeen in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 190 economies, Doing Business 2020 measures aspects of regulation affecting 10 areas of everyday business activity.

Did you ever wonder whether education has a role to play in preparing our societies for an age of artificial intelligence? Or what the impact of climate change might be on our schools, families and communities? Trends Shaping Education examines major economic, political, social and ...

This Element presents an overarching analysis of Chinese visions and practices of soft power. Maria Repnikova's analysis introduces the Chinese theorization of the idea of soft power, as well as its practical implementation across global contexts. The key channels or mechanisms of China's soft power examined include Confucius Institutes, international communication, education and training exchanges, and public diplomacy spectacles. The discussion concludes with suggestions for new directions for the field, drawing on the author's research on Chinese soft power in Africa.