Impact of International News Narrative Approaches on the Attitude Discrepancy among TikTok Users --A Case Study of TikTok Comments on the Assassination of Shinzo Abe

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Impact of International News Narrative Approaches on the Attitude Discrepancy among TikTok Users --A Case Study of TikTok Comments on the Assassination of Shinzo Abe

Xiuqi Wang 1* , Chuikwan Wong 2 , Zhenglei Zhang 3 , Zhuohang Zou 4
  • 1 Global Media Business, University of Westminster, London, HA1 3TP, UK    
  • 2 English Major in the School of Foreign Languages, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510000, China    
  • 3 Communication University of China, Beijing, 100000, China    
  • 4 Broadcasting and Anchoring School of Communication University of China, Communication University of China, Beijing, 100000, China    
  • *corresponding author w1937564@my.westminster.ac.uk
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Abstract

Under the background of globalization, diversified narrative approaches have been increasingly adopted in international news reports in the context of new media, leading to varying degrees of influence on the audience’s opinion. In virtue of their fast-paced, penetrative and fragmented contents, short video communication platforms, represented by TikTok, cater to people’s reading needs in the rush of modern life. They are also found to differ from traditional media in the reporting and dissemination of major news events. On July 8, 2022, Shinzo Abe, former Prime Minister of Japan and a current member of the House of Representatives, was shot and killed during his street speech in Nara City, Nara Prefecture. After the incident, many relevant news reports and short videos emerged on the platform of TikTok, with different emotional attitudes highly perceivable from users’ comments. Based on the Theory of News Narratology, this article collects and encodes first-hand data from 100 short videos with the largest number of likes after July 8 and 9 on the short video platform of TikTok, such as video length, release time, video presentation mode, narrative approach and music style, and explores the impact of different narrative approaches and elements in international news reports on the attitude and behavioral orientation of Internet users using the method of content analysis. The results of comparative analysis show that the audience’s comment tone is relatively flat under the sad style of music and the short news videos with low timeliness; the narrative approach of incorporating subjective comments and human participation into short videos is conducive to the rational return of public opinion.

Keywords:

news narrative, news comments, international news

Wang,X.;Wong,C.;Zhang,Z.;Zou,Z. (2023). Impact of International News Narrative Approaches on the Attitude Discrepancy among TikTok Users --A Case Study of TikTok Comments on the Assassination of Shinzo Abe. Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media,4,930-938.
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Wang,X.;Wong,C.;Zhang,Z.;Zou,Z. (2023). Impact of International News Narrative Approaches on the Attitude Discrepancy among TikTok Users --A Case Study of TikTok Comments on the Assassination of Shinzo Abe. Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media,4,930-938.

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[2]. Q. X. Zeng, News narratology. Beijing: China Radio and Television Press, 2005.

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[4]. J. Meng, Immersive news narratives: Taking VR news and audio news as examples, News Front, 2022.

[5]. D. K. Thussu, Western journalism and communication classics. Beijing: Xinhua Publishing House, 2014.

[6]. M. L. Cheng, Course of international communication. Beijing: Peking University Press, 2006.

[7]. H. F. Li, From the perspective of news narratology, the award-winning works of international communication, News World, 2021.

[8]. T. Bloom, J. Cleary, M. North, Traversing the “Twittersphere”, Journalism Practice, 2016.

[9]. L. Zhou, X. Wang, The role and empirical analysis of user comments in the operation of video websites, China's Circulation Economy, 2015.

[10]. C. Y. Wang, H. L. Yu, The emotional preference effect in news short video communication——An empirical study based on the social section of pear video, Journalism and Communications Review, 2019.

[11]. Z. A. Zhang, L. Peng, Mixed emotional communication mode: Research on the production of short video content in mainstream media——Taking the Douyin account of People's Daily as an example, Journalism and Writing, 2019, no. 7: pp. 57-66.

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[15]. L. Q. Liu, S.J. Pan, Social amplification in the formation of internet public opinion: A conceptual framework, Journalism and Communications Review, 2013, no. 1: pp. 93-103.

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