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COVID-19 and the Political Framing of China, Nationalism, and Borders in the U.S. and South Korean News Media by Angie Y. Chung; Hyerim Jo; Ji-won Lee; Fan Yang is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.

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Using an inductive framing analysis of news coverage, we examine how the most popular liberal and conservative news media in the United States and South Korea mobilize different nationalist narratives on China in responding to social, economic, and political upheavals during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. We identify three major areas of political cleavage in both Korean and U.S. media discourse on nationalist identities vis-à-vis the construction of the national or racialized "Other." This includes (1) imagined solidarity against China as an adversary; (2) political disputes over boundary-making; (3) and the construction of ethnonational belonging and exclusion. Our research underscores how intrastate and interstate shifts during periods of crisis can heighten political cleavages along racial and ethnic fault lines and complicate dominant frameworks of civic and ethnic nationalism in both countries.

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Author

Angie Y. Chung; Hyerim Jo; Ji-won Lee; Fan Yang

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Published

2021

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences