2016年6月21日至7月2日，由中国传媒大学广播电视研究中心、加拿大西门菲莎大学传播学院、英国西敏寺大学传播与媒介研究所、香港中文大学新闻与传播学院主办，缙云县河阳乡村研究院主导承办的“传播、文化与全球南方”第八届四校联合国际暑期班在浙江省缙云县举行。这次暑期班以全新的理论视野和丰富的农村实地调研为来自国内外20多所高校的青年学子开拓了学术空间。笔者是暑期班实地调研的带队老师之一，在暑期班最后一天，就此次暑期班实践所昭示的传播研究新思路，采访了主要策划人赵月枝教授。赵月枝教授认为，传播研究需要克服麦克卢汉“地球村”概念的局限，从全球层面深入、纵贯到乡村层面和不平等全球社会的底层，并在此基础上想像新地球村的未来。

The 8th International Joint Summer School themed Communication, Culture and the Global South, co-sponsored by communication research units at the Communication University of China, Simon Fraser University, University of Westminster, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and hosted by the Heyang Institute for Rural Studies, was held between June 21 and July 2, 2016 in Jinyun County, Zhejiang Province, China. Combining critical theoretical explorations with group-based field research on rural communication and cultural issues, this innovative research and pedagogical experiment opened up new intellectual horizons for participants from more than 20 Chinese and overseas universities. On the last day, Zhang Zhihua, one of the field research instructors, interviewe Zhao Yuezhi, the Summer School’s primary organizer, on the new vision of communication research that the Summer School aims to explore. Turning McLuhan’s concept of the global village inside out, Professor Zhao argued that there is an urgent need for researchers to ground their work in the village and other sites at the bottom of an increasingly uneven globalized society, and explore the possibility of imagine the new global village.