Buying a Foreign Boat: How China Reshapes Media Abroad

• In Event: JSS: Media, Elite, and Public Political Communication in China

Brief Overview

This paper employs structural topic modelling and aspect-based sentiment analysis to examine China’s influence on South China Morning Post acquired by Alibaba at three pivotal moments: acquisition, COVID-19 outbreak, and China’s crackdown of Alibaba.

Authors

• Shuyuan Shen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Mengqing Mengqing Zhang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign