海外英文媒体“一带一路”新闻报道情感倾向研究

An Analysis of the Emotional Valence of English News Reports on the"One Belt&One Road"Initiative:A Co-constructive Perspective of Space and Technology

作为中国重大举措,“一带一路”倡议引起世界各国媒体高度关注和广泛报道。在空间和技术互构视角下,本研究通过对5,135篇海外英文媒体报道进行情感分析后发现,地理距离深刻影响不同国家“一带一路”倡议新闻报道的情感倾向,且地理距离与情感倾向之间的关系受到互联网普及率的调节。具体而言,在互联网普及率低的国家和地区,互联网技术在一定程度上抹平了地理距离的阻碍作用;在互联网普及率高的国家和地区,地理距离及其背后因素的作用再次彰显。研究结果为“一带一路”倡议在海外的传播现状提供了新的理论解释,亦可为今后的国际传播实践提供参考。

The"One Belt&One Road"initiative,as a major move of China,has received worldwide attention and extensive coverage by the media.Though an analysis of 5135 English news reports on the"One Belt&One Road"initiative,this study found that spatial distance has a significant impact on the emotional valence of the news reports in different countries.In addition,the relationship between spatial distance and emotional valence is moderated by the internet penetration rates.In the countries and regions which have low Internet penetration rates,the effect of spatial distance on emotion valence of the news report is nullified by the technology,while in the countries and regions which have high Internet penetration rates,the effects of spatial distance and other factors reappear.The results of this study provide useful theoretical explanation for the international dissemination of the initiative,and practical guidance to the communication practice.