Media and Journalism

This study investigates how leading South Korean and Chinese firms communicate their corporate sustainability principles and practices through their websites. A semantic network analysis, convergence of iterated correlations (CONCOR), and quadratic assignment procedure (QAP) correlation analysis were conducted to examine the major agendas, communication approaches, and framing patterns of sustainability information by firms in the two countries. Our findings suggest that although South Korean and Chinese firms had overlapping agendas for sustainability development such as sustainable growth and collectivistic culture, they differed in the amount of sustainability information, network structure, and the framing of sustainability. Our research offers practical insights into the development of strategic communication and management of digital contents as they are helpful to identify not only a range of agendas they covered, but also areas of deficient knowledge or sources in the information.

Around 13.6 million heterosexual women in China are married to gay or bisexual men, and they call themselves tongqi. Tongqi belong to both co-cultural groups (as women and wives) and a dominant group (as heterosexuals). Through a narrative analysis of 51 stories told by tongqi, this study examines the co-cultural strategies tongqi use, and identifies two novel co-cultural strategies: self-blaming and enduring. It also examines how tongqi narratively construct their husbands’ cocultural
strategies and finds that tongqi often internalize the ideologies (of gender, sexual orientation, marriage and family) in their sensemaking process and in their communicative responses to their husbands.