Urban-Rural Conflict over Framework Analysis on Media Discourses of Straw Burning in China

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10.2991/hss-17.2017.71How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Urban-Rural conflict, Straw Burning, Discourse, Framework Analysis.

Abstract

In recent years, the phenomenon of straw burning is becoming a typical environmental conflict between urban and rural residents in China. Based on the methods of framework and content analyses, this paper pays attention to urban and rural subjects' media discourses, which are chosen from 1173 pieces media news about straw burning of 15 newspapers during 2010 to 2015. The inductive results are that urban subjects-officials and citizens mainly state the frameworks of achievements and efforts, pollution and accident, punishment and warning, ignorance and unruly. In contrast, rural subjects-peasants mainly present practical and helpless framework, achievements and utilization framework, as well as traditional experience framework. Frameworks show urban subjects' discursive advantages which not only reflect in the quantity of reports, but also embody that officials and citizens are better at constructing discourses of metaphors, catch-phrases and depictions than peasants. Therefore, through power games behind urban-rural discourses and frameworks, we can conclude that urban subjects dominate rural counterparts in China.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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