Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1993. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1993. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print.

Expanded from author's thesis (M.A.)--University of Minnesota, 1976. / Bibliography: p. 55-62.

published_or_final_version / Politics and Public Administration / Master / Master of Public Administration

As nuclear power remains an ongoing controversy in contemporary society, it is crucial to understand how laypeople make sense of nuclear power by considering influences at both the cognitive and the social level. Using the lens of social representation theory, this thesis employed automatic content analysis and core-periphery analysis to reveal the content, structure, formation, and dynamic shifts of laypeople's social representations concerning nuclear power as they were expressed in tweets and comments posted on Chinese social media platform Weibo from 2011 to 2018. This thesis found that laypeople in China regarded nuclear power predominantly as an energy source, and they focused on general knowledge regarding national development of nuclear power and related energy policies, which remained unchanged over the eight years. Additionally, they perceived risks of nuclear power to occur at an individual level while benefits occurring at a social level, and they showed a reluctant acceptance of nuclear power. Alternatively, laypeople also made sense of nuclear power by addressing its controversial nature, such as plant siting and nuclear accident causation, but these ideas varied according to the specific social contexts. To form these representations, laypeople anchored nuclear power within social/historical events, a preexisting knowledge system, and personal experience, objectifying nuclear power through familiar objects and verbal metaphors. Moreover, they created and shared these representations by transforming abstract scientific knowledge about nuclear power into common-sense information and by adopting consensual discourse like heterogeneous arguments, affective expression, and stories about nuclear power. These findings provide implications for understanding laypeople's everyday knowledge of nuclear power and for designing effective communication strategies in line with laypeople's actual understanding for popularizing science and communicating risk in terms of nuclear power.

published_or_final_version / abstract / Japanese Studies / Master / Master of Philosophy

李艷紅. / "2000年6月" / 論文 (哲學碩士)--香港中文大學, 2000. / 參考文獻 (leaves 140-147) / 附中英文摘要. / "2000 nian 6 yue" / Li Yanhong. / Lun wen (zhe xue shuo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2000. / Can kao wen xian (leaves 140-147) / Fu Zhong Ying wen zhai yao. / Chapter 第一章： --- 導論 --- p.1 / 從一宗訴訟說起 --- p.1 / 當代中國消費者權益運動與新社會運動 --- p.3 / 理論背景：當代中國的國家與社會關係及制度變遷 --- p.7 / 媒介與話語運動 --- p.11 / 論文的基本結構及研究方法說明 --- p.17 / Chapter 第二章： --- 從“消費者保護運動´ح到“消費者維權運動´ح --- p.28 / Chapter 第三章： --- 背景：當代中國的媒介變革與“消費欄目´ح的出現 --- p.35 / Chapter 第四章： --- 身体、故事、表演：媒介與“集体行動框架 --- p.43 / 媒介的´ب´ب焦點轉移´ح --- p.44 / 身体、受難故事與非正義框架 --- p.46 / 維權故事、個体能動性與“消費者運動´ح的公共身份 --- p.61 / 重新發現“消費者´ح --想象的社區，苦難的受害者 --- p.80 / Chapter 第五章： --- 表達、象征性“表達´ح與議程建构 --- p.93 / 《醫療事故處理辦法》進入公共議程 --- p.93 / “電信价格政策´ح進入公共議程 --- p.104 / 議程建构：表達與互動、象征表達與象征互動 --- p.113 / 媒介的行動者角色 --- p.116 / Chapter 第六章： --- 結論與討論 --- p.123 / 參考文獻 --- p.140

published_or_final_version / Environmental Management / Master / Master of Science in Environmental Management

This thesis examines the impact of economic reform on the mass media system in Shanghai municipality since 1990. It attempts to portray that Shanghai, as the forerunner of China's economic reform and growth in the 1990s, is also a pioneer in China's media liberalization, media decentralization and transition toward the information society. Shanghai's case demonstrates that market forces are the principal factor that is reshaping China's former state-centered mass media system.

Thesis (M.J.) - Carleton University, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-180). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.