How Factual Data and News Coverage About China’s Military Encirclement of Taiwan Affect Public Perceptions: A Multistep Agenda-Setting Process

• In Event: Comparative Political Communication

Brief Overview

This paper investigates how Taiwanese citizens form perceptions of the threat of China’s invasion by analyzing four time-series data sets: daily warplane records, news coverage, online discussions, and daily surveys of public opinions.

Authors

• Chingching Chang, Academia Sinica, Research Center for Humanities

• Yuan Hsiao, University of Washington