TY - JOUR A1 - Stockmann, Daniela T1 - Greasing the Reels: Advertising as a Means of Campaigning on Chinese Television JF - The China Quarterly N2 - Also published in: Chinese Media, Volume I: Politics and Communication (2014), Edited by Michael Keane, Wanning Sun, ISBN 9780415623544. This article examines a major change in campaigning through the means of mass media during the reform era. As the media commercialized and partially privatized, the state has tried increasingly to involve societal actors in the production of public service advertisements (PSAs) on television. Today, PSA campaigns are initiated by state and Party units, but their funding, production and broadcasting is made possible by a collaborative effort between broadcasters, advertising companies and commercial enterprises who voluntarily support their further development. I conducted 27 in-depth interviews with officials, broadcasters and producers in Beijing to tap into the policy rationale behind the use of public service advertisements in campaigning and the incentive structure facilitating collaboration between companies and state units. Interviews with judges of PSA competitions and content analysis of price-winning advertisements reveal the standards of the central government to employ public service advertising as a means of campaigning. Y1 - 2011 UR - 10.1017/S0305741011001032 SN - 9780415623544 VL - 208 SP - 851 EP - 869 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Stockmann, Daniela T1 - Race to the Bottom: Media Marketization and Increasing Negativity Toward the United States in China JF - Political Communication Y1 - 2011 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-23925 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2011.572447 VL - 28 IS - 3 SP - 268 EP - 290 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Stockmann, Daniela A1 - Gallagher, Mary E. T1 - Remote Control: How the Media Sustains Authoritarian Rule in China JF - Comparative Political Studies N2 - This study examines the role of the media in sustaining regime stability in an authoritarian context. The article engages the recent work on authoritarian resilience in comparative politics but goes beyond the standard focus on elections to other important institutions, such as the media and courts, that are used by authoritarian leaders to bolster legitimacy. The authors find that the Chinese media contribute to regime legitimacy and effective rule by propagandizing citizens’ experiences in the legal system. However, unlike the “mouthpieces” of earlier communist regimes, the marketized Chinese media provide more convincing and sophisticated messages that continue to accord with state censorship demands while satisfying readers’ interest in real-life stories and problems. The “positive propaganda” and the relative uniformity of information sources because of state censorship lead aggrieved citizens to the law as a realm for dispute resolution and rights protection. Statistical analysis of a randomly sampled survey conducted in four Chinese cities in 2005 demonstrates that exposure to media reporting about labor-law-related issues successfully promotes the image of a proworker bias in the law among citizens, thus encouraging them to participate in the legal system. The state is able to achieve its political goal because of the lack of conflicting sources of information and the lack of previous experience with the reformed legal system among citizens. Y1 - 2011 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414010394773 VL - 44 IS - 4 SP - 436 EP - 467 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Stockmann, Daniela T1 - Who Believes Propaganda? Media Effects during the Anti-Japanese Protests in Beijing JF - The China Quarterly Y1 - 2010 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-23943 VL - 2010 IS - 202 SP - 269 EP - 289 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Stockmann, Daniela T1 - One Size Doesn't Fit All: Measuring News Reception East and West JF - The Chinese Journal of Communication N2 - This article investigates how and why measures developed in the American context yield different results in China. Research in the United States has shown that a person's level of political knowledge is a stronger and more consistent predictor of news reception compared to alternative measures, such as media consumption or education. Yet a case study of news reception of pension reform in Beijing demonstrates that attentiveness and education constitute more valid indicators than knowledge. These differences in the empirical findings may result from translation from English into Chinese as well as specifics of the Chinese education system. However, when using valid measures the relationship between attentiveness and news reception is strong among Beijing residents, revealing that information-processing works as anticipated based on American media research. Y1 - 2009 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-23950 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/17544750902826640 VL - 2 IS - 2 SP - 140 EP - 157 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Stockmann, Daniela ED - Jacques, deLisle ED - Goldstein, Avery T1 - Responsive Authoritarianism in Chinese Media T2 - China's Challenges Y1 - 2015 SN - 9780812223125 SP - 139 EP - 156 PB - University of Pennsylvania Press CY - Philadelphia ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Stockmann, Daniela ED - Dong, Lisheng ED - Kriesi, Hanspeter ED - Kübler, Daniel T1 - The Chinese Internet Audience: Who Seeks Political Information Online? T2 - Urban Mobilization and New Media in Contemporary China Y1 - 2015 SN - 978-1-4724-3097-7 PB - Ashgate CY - Farnham, UK and Burlington, VT ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Stockmann, Daniela T1 - Book Review. Martin King Whyte, Myth of the Social Volcano JF - Journal of Chinese Political Science Y1 - 2012 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-24474 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11366-012-9193-3 VL - 17 IS - 2 SP - 211 EP - 212 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Stockmann, Daniela T1 - Gongyi Guanggao de Yingxiangli (The Influence of Public Service Announcements) JF - Zhongguo Gongyi Guanggao Nianjian (China Yearbook for Public Service Announcements) Y1 - 2011 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Stockmann, Daniela T1 - Book Review. Young Nam Cho, Local People's Congresses in China JF - Perspectives on Politics Y1 - 2010 UR - http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0920203X090230030602 SP - 1247 EP - 1248 ER -