Understanding Sweden’s COVID-19 Pandemic on Chinese Social Media: Public Perceptions Comparison Between Chinese Residing in Sweden and China

doi:10.1007/978-981-19-9993-2_10

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题名	Understanding Sweden’s COVID-19 Pandemic on Chinese Social Media: Public Perceptions Comparison Between Chinese Residing in Sweden and China
作者	Liu，Liming 1; Lee Lim，Chally Chai 2; Yao，Chengxi 3; Liao，Zhiyi 4
出版日期	2023
来源专著	Comparative Studies on Pandemic Control Policies and the Resilience of Society
ISBN	9789811999932;9789811999925;
页码	201-225
摘要	Sweden’s COVID-19 pandemic strategy attracted global attention and criticism for its liberal approach without a complete lockdown of society. Unlike many other countries, Sweden kept its schools, industries, and most of society open. Global Times, a Chinese mainstream media outlet, published a commentary on March 13, 2020, regarding the severe pandemic situation in Sweden and how shocked it was that a democratic country abandoned its citizens during the pandemic crisis. As a result of Sweden’s opposite approach to China’s severe lockdown, this commentary caused millions of discussions on Chinese social media and constructed a negative national image of Sweden. This study aims to understand how Chinese social media constructs the understanding of Sweden’s pandemic among Chinese people. Therefore, two groups of Chinese people living in Sweden and China were selected to compare their perceptions of Sweden’s pandemic on Chinese social media within different resident contexts. Previous research has studied Sweden’s pandemic performance through media representations in domestic and international contexts, but very little is known about how social media constructs the understanding of Sweden’s pandemic. By employing qualitative inquiry in a Chinese context, this study collects data through 20 semi-structured interviews and applies critical discourse analysis (CDA) at the analytical level. By exploring the construction of Sweden’s pandemic on Chinese social media and comparing the public perceptions among two Chinese groups, this study demonstrates the heterogeneity of social media use and pandemic understandings in the Chinese community. This study argues how the pandemic in Sweden is mediatized by social media, which theoretically contributes to conceptualizing the interaction between social media use and the pandemic. In addition, this study employs Sweden as the story of otherness in a Chinese context and provides Sweden’s exceptionalism as another perspective to global pandemic narratives.
语种	英语English
关键词	CDA Chinese Mediatized pandemic Public perceptions Social media Sweden
DOI	10.1007/978-981-19-9993-2_10
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Scopus入藏号	2-s2.0-85172078697
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文献类型	著作章节
条目标识符	https://repository.uic.edu.cn/handle/39GCC9TT/11623
专题	北师香港浸会大学
通讯作者	Liu，Liming
作者单位	1.Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University,United International College,Zhuhai,China 2.Humanities and Social Sciences,BNU-HKBU United International College (UIC),Guangdong,China 3.BNU-HKBU United International College (UIC),Guangdong,China 4.BNUHKBU United International College (UIC),Guangdong,China
第一作者单位	北师香港浸会大学
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Liu，Liming,Lee Lim，Chally Chai,Yao，Chengxiet al. Understanding Sweden’s COVID-19 Pandemic on Chinese Social Media: Public Perceptions Comparison Between Chinese Residing in Sweden and China, 2023: 201-225.