Special thanks go to my co-authors for the constructive collaboration and their crucial contributions to the paper, to the editorial team at Emerging Media: Technology, Industry and Society for their efficient handling of the manuscript, and to Shanghai Jiao Tong University for supporting the open access publishing of the article.

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We also identified lower-level divergences within imaginaries across the three countries, which we linked to systemic differences between the three countries, such as the largely private US healthcare system, the mostly state-controlled Chinese media and healthcare systems, and the German hesitancy toward emerging technologies.

You can find the open access paper here: https://doi.org/10.1177/27523543241300185

Drawing from a thematic analysis of articles from 15 newspapers, we found two powerful, cross-national, collectively held imaginaries:

1) The first imaginary focused on ENHANCING HEALTHCARE WITH AI and emerged across all three countries.
2) The second imaginary centred on using AI TO MANAGE PANDEMICS/EPIDEMICS and was only fully developed in Chinese and US coverage, though present as an outlier in German news coverage.