The Dispute Over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands: How Media Narratives Shape Public Opinion and Challenge the Global Order

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T. Hollihan
Springer, Aug 7, 2014 - Social Science - 317 pages
The small unpopulated islands in the East China Sea that the Chinese call the Diaoyu and the Japanese call the Senkaku, have long been a source of contention. This volume will undertake an examination of the controversy as it plays out in legacy and new social media in China, Japan, and the West.
 

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Acknowledgments
Historical Narratives in Chinese
Historical Narratives in Japanese School Textbooks
The Case of the Diaoyu Islands
How the Japanese Legacy Media Covered the Senkaku
How the Japanese Social Media Users Discussed the Senkaku
Conclusions
Thomas A Hollihan
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Miao Feng, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Shubo Li, Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway Shusuke Murai, New York University, USA Hiroko Okuda, Kanto Gakuin University, Japan Patricia Riley, University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, USA Takeshi Suzuki, Meiji University, Japan Elaine J. Yuan, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Zhan Zhang, Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI), Switzerland

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