Type of Document	Thesis
Author	Chang, Hsing-Ju
Author's Email Address	sarabonbons@gmail.com
URN	etd-05072009-212103
Title	Domesticating Chien-Ming Wang: A Comparative Study of the Media Coverage of Sports Performance
Degree	Master of Arts
Department	Communication, Department of
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Stephen D. McDowell Committee Chair Jennifer M. Proffitt Committee Member Steven McClung Committee Member
Keywords	La-Tai Sports Newspaper (LT) Newspaper Chien-Ming Wang The New York Times (NYT)
Date of Defense	2009-04-10
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract The purposes of this study are three-fold. The primary goal is to examine the narratives that two mainstream newspapers in Taiwan and America, Li-Tai Sports Newspaper (LT) and The New York Times (NYT), used when covering the performance of the athlete Chien-Ming Wang. The second purpose is to see how the presence of news frames varies in the two countries. That is, this research provides an examination of newspaper sportswriters’ use of distinct framing points when covering Wang’s performances. Finally, this study analyzes the coverage employed by reporters who wrote about Wang. This study examines how Wang’s performance has been framed and domesticated by both countries’ newspaper coverage in the same time period. The cross-cultural perspective adopted in the study draws upon ideas about the construction of social reality. A review of original articles on framing, such as the work of Scheufele and Goffman, provides the basis for the analysis. The analysis considers LT’s and NYT’s construction of the news about Wang as a way to understand how sports news is framed within t globalization. The methodology used in this study is a framing analysis of the stories prepared by sportswriters commenting on Wang. The findings are discussed with regard to domestication, positivity bias, and cross-cultural differences.
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