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The Polarization And Civility Of Hong Kong Political Discourse On Facebook News Pages, Leung Kiu Fok
The Polarization And Civility Of Hong Kong Political Discourse On Facebook News Pages, Leung Kiu Fok
USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)
This content analysis research investigated the content and quality of political discourse generated by online news media’s Facebook pages in Hong Kong. First, the focus of this study was to examine how Hong Kong’s online news media frame the political relationship between Hong Kong and China by analyzing the news postings on the Facebook pages of the top three online news media organizations in post-handover Hong Kong. The three online news media being analyzed were Stand News, Post 852, and Hong Kong 01. The results suggest that some online news media have a tendency to embed partisan, pro-democracy perspectives in …