Discursive Construction of Hong Kong Reporters’ Identities: A Study of Hong Kong Reporters Narrating Working Experience in China

• In Event: Making Sense of Collective Identities and Uncertainties: The Construction of Social Worlds from a Narrative Perspective

Abstract

This paper answers how and why people construct themselves as Hong Kong reporters when reporting in Beijing, and the construction of identity interplay with the state, space, and place. This study finds that the construction of identities is triggered by contrasting their difference from the Mainland reporters, and press freedom is the central value for them. The study shows the effort Hong Kong reporters paid to enforce and defend their values under the state power.

Author

• Yuen Sze Tsui, The Chinese University of Hong Kong