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oai:recercat.cat:10230/480432025-12-25T19:58:21Zcom_2072_6col_2072_452954

Hate speech and its harm to China during the COVID-19 epidemic —Taking the <HARDtalk> interview program on YouTube as an example Liu, Zehua Treball de fi de màster Universitari en Comunicació Social Tutor: Carles Feixa Pàmpols As the Internet fully entered the era of web 2.0, social network media developed rapidly, gradually changing people's lifestyles and becoming one of the main platforms for people to obtain information. People can not only share their lives and express their opinions on the Internet, but also be influenced by the Internet. Social media guides public opinion and affects people’s ideology. Especially in the epidemic of COVID-19 pneumonia, social media plays a very important role. This research is mainly based on a critical discourse analysis of an interview from BBC HARDtalk program on YouTube, which the Chinese Ambassador to the United Kingdom Liu Xiaoming respondsto COVID-19 epidemic incidents. The main objective is to study the dialogue strategies of the two sides of the talk show and whether there is racist discourse. Through analyzing the attitude and ideological tendency of online comments, the purpose is to study whether hate speech exists on social media especially on that towards China and Chinese people. It will also check whether YouTube handles this content through its hate content policy and interview Chinese students studying in Spain through in-depth interviews to study the relationship and harm between hate speech and face-to-face violence. 2021-07-01T13:48:11Z 2021-07-01T13:48:11Z 2020 info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis http://hdl.handle.net/10230/48043 eng Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 international http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess application/pdf application/pdf