Rumor Propagation and Discourse Construction in Panda Diplomacy: The “Ya Ya Abuse” Case

Abstract excerpt

<title>Abstract</title> <p>On February 1, 2023, the death of Chinese giant panda Le Le at the Memphis Zoo sparked Chinese concern over Ya Ya. This study maps the “Ya Ya abuse” controversy across Weibo, YouTube, and X through hashtag data, media reports, and court documents. Anchored in Dervin’s sensemaking theory and supplemented by the spiral of silence, and agenda-setting theories, the analysis extend the sense...

Topics

Open a Topic to create a Post that cites this publication.

• COVID-19
• Genetic Variation
• SARS-CoV-2

Identifiers and source

Literature Corpus work

504d10d6-669b-55aa-8d85-0eeb3dc47ab9

DOI

10.21203/rs.3.rs-8069109/v1