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Minding the Metaphor: Vietnamese State-Run Press Coverage of Social Movements Abroad / Cari An Coe. // Journal of Vietnamese Studies 2014, Vol. 9, No. 1.
2014
p. 1-35

This paper analyzes Vietnamese online media coverage of recent social movements in Egypt, Thailand and Burma to examine how the communist party-state’s media covers events abroad that could be seen as having metaphorical significance or potential for political change in Vietnam. It shows that different social movements receive varying levels of coverage with different emphases in terms of content. While commercialization of the state-run press in Vietnam has perhaps opened a neoliberal space for alternative representations of information, resulting in press coverage of international social movements that largely mirrors Western coverage, the Vietnamese media still carefully steers clear of any metaphorical meanings that these events may evoke for the party-state.