1st Edition

Digital Media and Risk Culture in China’s Financial Markets

By Zhifei Mao Copyright 2019
152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

This book analyzes the risk cultures in China that have emerged from the entanglement of new communication technologies and financial markets, examining the role that digital media play in Asian modernity and offering an alternative narrative to that of the West. The book illustrates the impact of exclusively Chinese digital media on power dynamics within risk definition, arguing that information... Read more

Chapter One: Digital Media and Risk Cultures—An Introduction; Chapter Two: Major Players of Risk Communication; Chapter Three: Communicating Stock Quotes; Chapter Four: Communicating National Affairs; Chapter Five: Communicating Company Information; Chapter Six: Stock Commentators and Commentary; Conclusion

Biography

Zhifei Mao is an Assistant Professor in the School of Mass Communication at Shenzhen University, China. She was invited to the research team for the European Research Council project "Methodological Cosmopolitanism – In the Laboratory of Climate Change" led by Professor Ulrich Beck from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich as a postdoctoral fellow. Later she worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Journalism and Communication, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests are in global risk, environmental communication, new media studies, and financial communication.



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