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    Kazakhstan’s Proactive Measures in Addressing the Aral Sea Crisis as a Platform for Enhanced International Representation and Media Engagement
    (SDU Journal of Media Studies, 2025) Arailym Niyetbek
    After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the countries of Central Asia faced new challenges, including the gradual disappearance of the Aral Sea rooted in the Soviet era. This near disappearance serves as a symbol of the region’s victimisation, as the Soviets diverted the waters of what was once the fourth largest lake in the world to irrigate cotton fields and boost agricultural output. Once spanning 68,000 square kilometres, the sea has shrunk by 90%. Being a key player in Central Asia, Kazakhstan has taken the lead in regional efforts to find solutions to this critical environmental, social, and economic disaster. As a young state striving for recognition, Kazakhstan has come under close attention, implementing various initiatives, including the construction of the first sand dam in the Berg Strait and the Kokaral Dam, the signing of the Almaty Agreement, the establishment of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea (IFAS) and the organisation of EXPO 2017. The paper attempts to explain Kazakhstan’s efforts in resolving the crisis in the Aral Sea and its impact on its international representation and media engagement. The findings indicate that Kazakhstan’s environmental actions may potentially support not only the restoration of local ecology but also strengthen the country’s image as an important regional player in sustainable development. This paper addresses environmental diplomacy in the context of strategic action for countries seeking better positions globally while seeking solutions for pressing ecological problems.
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    A Comparative Study of the Effectiveness of Pandemic Information Dissemination between Self-Media and Traditional Media in China and Kazakhstan
    (SDU Journal of Media Studies, 2025) WanhangYu
    In the post-truth era, emotions and positions gradually overtake objective facts and become the dominant factors in public perception. Taking China and Kazakhstan as case studies, this study compares and analyzes the differences in the information dissemination effects of self media and traditional media during theCOVID-19in the two countries through questionnaires. Through quantitative content analysis and audience surveys, it is found that China’s self-media rapidly spread information about the epidemic by virtue of immediacy and interactivity, but some of the content exacerbated rumor dissemination due to excessiveemotionality; traditional media, although subject to policy regulation and control, showed higher consistency, but dominated in terms of public trust. In Kazakhstan, due to the relative concentration of traditional media resources, the authority of traditional media was still dominant in the early stage of the epidemic, but the fragmentation and contradiction of information in the self-media due to lax regulation weakened the public’s recognition of official information. The study further reveals that differences in audience trust in media between the two countries are influenced by political culture, media ecology, and information governance model: the Chinese public is more institutionally dependent on traditional media, while the young population in Kazakhstan prefers to obtain pluralistic information through cross-border self-media. This study provides new perspectives for comparing the mechanisms of post-truth communication in transnational contexts and suggests ways to optimize information governance strategies in public health emergencies.