Lifen Cheng

Universidad de Salamanca ·  Department of Sociology and Communication

Existe un creciente interés de los ciudadanos en el impacto que tiene la Ciencia de Datos en su vida diaria, principalmente debido a la enorme atención que los medios prestan a temas relacionados con el Big Data o la Inteligencia Artificial. Este interés se traduce en grandes expectativas sobre las potenciales aplicaciones de estas tecnologías, per...

This study investigates the relationship between watching subtitled Spanish films and series and Spanish learning for Chinese students. A survey was developed with 207 university students from 42 universities (Chinese and Spanish) who voluntary responds to a questionnaire. A pilot study was performed in order to test the correspondence validity of...

This study aims at updating our previous knowledge in reference with direct online political communication on social media. We focused on analyzing social media users' attitudes toward civil participation in national politics in Spain. It is contemplated that participative attitudes toward electoral events might emerge as effects from political com...

This research project is related to the Spanish/Chinese subtitled media consumption and the Spanish/Chinese learning for Spanish/Chinese speaking students. It focuses particularly on analyzing the uses the subtitled audiovisual products. For this purpose, in the first study, a survey was developed with 207 university students from 42 Chinese and Sp...

The use of emoticons and emojis among online messaging users has achieved a globalized level. This article aims at examining how certain emojis and emoticons are chosen by message senders to regular the intensity of emotions in their messages. Or, by means of using them, message senders wish to blur textual rigidity and show interaction empathy dur...

New ICT tools definitely mean new and different ways of accessing and processing information needed for teaching and learning in developed societies. It is of our research interest to study the relations between Spanish vocational school students' attitudes toward smartphone use and how their using educational APPs at class might influence their ac...

The use of computer-mediated communication has led researchers to contradictory argumentations on information and communication technology (ICT) influences on users' engagement in their societal concern. The present study was focused on exploring the intercultural communication competence in terms of developmental model of intercultural sensitivity...

The present study proposes to explore the developmental stage of intercultural awareness in netizens among Spanish college students. Immersed in the 21st century global information and communication technology boom, young people have been gradually making online socializing an essential part of their everyday life. It is thought that their percepti...

The present study proposes to explore the developmental stage of intercultural awareness in netizens among Spanish college students. Immersed in the 21st century global information and communication technology boom, young people have been gradually making online socializing an essential part of their everyday life. It is thought that their percepti...

Based on acculturation analysis, the present study aims to examine civic awareness of water environment as effects incited by exposure to accumulative media contents. A split ballot survey with questionnaire designed for the purpose of this study was conducted with 230 university students as respondents, who were recruited in different areas in Spa...

This article put forward and analysis four major strategies with fully mastering company's real situation: turning into a comprehensive B2C enterprise, opening up the sales platform gradually, improving self-built logistics system, doing after-sales service better. We believe that if Jingdong does the above four aspects enough, it will become the C...

This research is based on a long term content analysis study on news coverage of water issues in Spanish press in a 45 year span, during 1960-2004, in the attempt to examine the way how modern concepts or topics have been added up as new frames to the deep-rooted water issues of long tradition in Spain or, simply, they have taken over the old ones....

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In this paper, an exploratory content analysis has been developed for a case study on the topic of immigration reported in the regional newspapers of the largest Spanish autonomous community, Castilla and Leon. This study based its research conceptualization on the framing theory in mass communication. In addition to usual issue frames and issue im...

El presente estudio analiza las noticias online emitidas por Xinhuanet, diario de información del gobierno Chino, a fin de examinar cómo la prensa oficial percibe a sus éteros europeos. Para ello, se toman como referencia teorías de framing combinadas con una aproximación al entendimiento intercultural para comprender la comunicación en la escena i...

This paper presents a study on the sociocognitive effects of news frames on immigration. One hundred and eighty-six individuals were exposed to a newspaper story on increased immigration to Spain. The newspaper highlighted (a) the positive (economic contribution frame) versus negative (crime growth frame) consequences and (b) the group cue-Latinos...

This paper presents a study on the sociocognitive effects of news frames on immigration. One hundred and eighty-six individuals were exposed to a newspaper story on increased immigration to Spain. The newspaper highlighted (a) the positive (economic contribution frame) versus negative (crime growth frame) consequences and (b) the group cue—Latinos...

This article outlines the results of an experimental study on the socio-cognitive effects of the way immigration is framed in the news. The sample included 355 students at the University of Salamanca (Spain), who were distributed at random among four treatments or versions of the news they received. The news in question, which offered information o...

Se ha sugerido que un factor explicativo del rechazo hacia la inmigración es la actuación de los medios de comunicación. Sin embargo, son escasas las investigaciones sobre la recepción e impacto de las noticias sobre inmigración. En este artículo se presenta un estudio experimental sobre los efectos socio-cognitivos de las noticias sobre inmigració...

Se presentan los resultados de una investigación experimental sobre los efectos socio-cognitivos de los encuadres noticiosos de la inmigración. Participaron 355 estudiantes de la Universidad de Salamanca (España), distribuidos aleatoriamente en cuatro tratamientos, en función de la versión de la noticia que recibieron. La noticia entregaba informac...

This study focuses on a news framing analysis of Latin America and Latin Americans in the Spanish press. For this purpose 1,271 news articles with different Latin American countries or their citizens as main actors were examined. These news stories had been published by the main Spanish newspapers in 1999. The results reveal that attribution of res...

La presente investigación se ha centrado en analizar el posicionamiento de la prensa nacional con respecto a la inmigración. Se han analizado 819 noticias que tenían como protagonistas a inmigrantes o la inmigración, publicadas en El País, El Mundo, ABC y La Razón. Se elaboró la Escala de Encuadres Noticiosos para evaluar de forma cuantitativa los...

We are presenting the outcomes of a content analysis study on news frames of the reports on Latin America and the Latin Americans in the Spanish press, which is part of content analysis study in a larger immigration research project focus- ing on news framing in regard of immi- grants found in the reports in the Spanish press. Our findings show tha...

Health messages are designed to stimulate an active cognitive process in those audiences generally with little involvement. The Elaboration Likelihood Model by Petty and Cacioppo sustains that subjects with high involvement and those with low involvement react differently to the persuasive message to which they are exposed. One efficient way to cap...

En la presente comunicación se analiza el contenido de las cartas al editor publicadas en la revista informativa internacional Newsweek durante 13 meses, desde el estallido del escándalo del ìcomportamiento impropioî del presidente Clinton hasta la resolución del Congreso del caso (entre febrero de 1998 y febrero de 1999, ambos inclusive). Con ello...

Resumen Existen muchos factores que pueden explicar la razón por la que los ciudadanos están más o menos atentos a un determinado tema social de actualidad como la cuestión del agua y su relación con el medio ambiente (Shanahan, Morgan, y Stenbjerre, 1997). Mucho de lo que sabe el público sobre dicho tema probablemente proviene de los medios de com...

El presente estudio se centra en analizar las noticias emitidas a través de la agencia oficial de información de China, Xinhua; de cómo esta nación gigante ve y percibe a los países europeos, orgullosa de su reciente "resurgimiento pacífico". En segundo lugar se ofrece un método cuantitativo de análisis de contenido, desde un ángulo objetivo y libr...

This article outlines the results of an experimental study on the socio-cognitive effects of the way immigration is framed in the news. The sample included 355 students at the University of Salamanca (Spain), who were distribu- ted at random among four treatments or versions of the news they received. The news in question, which offered information...