Cyberspace Narratives for Global Interconnectivity Based on Content Analysis of Financial Media in Comparison

¹ School of Film, TV, and Communication, Xiamen University of Technology, No.600 Ligong Road, Jimei District, Xiamen, 361000, China
² School of Design Art, Xiamen University of Technology, No.600, Ligong Road, Xiamen, 361024, Fujian, China

^* Corresponding author: syc@xmut.edu.cn

Abstract

The paper explores the role of elite financial media in construction narratives of global interconnectivity, in a comparative framework[7]. The existing era of globalization provided us with new challenges for strategic intelligence as the virtual compression of time along with new technological achievements in shorter period of time and potentially cataclysmic threats[8]. Two globally circulated financial journals—Caijing, China’s leading financial news organization, and the Economist, with a vital influence across the globe—are chosen to manifest the diverse media discourses representing, respectively, the Chinese and Anglo-American socio- economic backgrounds. The paper aims to use the quantitative content analysis to answer the question: what are the narrative characteristics of the Caijing and the Economist in portraying China’s economic globalisation? The study are designed to tackle a specific focus on the globalised elite communication, in order to guide the investigation of China’s global interconnectivity in a hybridizing and contesting way[4]. Like other forms of mediated electronic connectivity, the Internet instead of circumscribing sovereignty has offered centralised authority new ways of conducting statecraft, by circulating ideas that represents the consensus shared by global elites.