Mechanism of Power Practice and Its Structural Impact in International Human Rights Reporting——A Study Based on Human Rights Reports from GDELT Event Database (1979—2022)
Chen Ouyang
(School of Journalism and Communication， Central China Normal University， Wuhan 430079)
Abstract：The game between major powers in the human rights issues has shifted from the competition for “strength power” to the competition for “relational power” and even “structural power”， from the competition in the individual human rights level to that of international human rights contributions. Based on the analysis of nearly 40 million reports on human rights actions between countries in the world's major media in the past 44 years in the GDELT Event Database， this study examines the power reproduction mechanism of the international media in human rights issues and its structural impact on the international human rights game， in order to make up for the limitation of the power view of existing studies that “focuses on attributes and ignores relationships”. The study found that： the international reports on human rights construct the global human rights action scene as a “minority game” in a “center-margin” structure； although some developing countries can enter the central position of the network of human rights actors through conflict events， their power will be dissolved by the relational power and squeezed by structural power because of international media； China's structural power in the human rights network has shown a steady upward trend， but China's action and contribution are still restrained by media. Through power reproduction mechanism， human rights reporting has strengthened the privileged status of the bourgeoisie in the international human rights system， eliminated the strenuous efforts and positive contributions of the third-world countries and thus solidified the hierarchical order in human rights cause.
陈欧阳. 国际人权报道中的权力再生产机制及其结构化影响——基于GDELT数据库1979—2022年人权报道的分析[J]. 华中师范大学学报（人文社会科学版）, 2025, 64(1): 160-175.
Chen Ouyang. Mechanism of Power Practice and Its Structural Impact in International Human Rights Reporting——A Study Based on Human Rights Reports from GDELT Event Database (1979—2022). journal1, 2025, 64(1): 160-175.
2025, Vol. 64 
