Faced with the “blind spot” of the existing cross-research of media and economy, this study first clarified the fundamental position of production discourse of Marxist political economy, combined with mediatization theory, and then pointed out that the process of media construction in the development of productive forces and production relations is economic mediatization, with media, media and media logic as the operational concepts of economic mediatization analysis, and finally demonstrated the meta-process of economic mediatization of human society through historical review. Under the cooperation of infrastructure media, economic media and information media, economic mediatization has undergone four stages: penetration, extension, change and internalization. In this process, media logic has a double-edged effect of construction and masking on economic development. Economic mediatization is a supplementary study of the “invisible relations” behind material production in Marxist political economy, and provides a new path for the development of the cross-study of media and economy and the study of mediatization society.

In the field of documentary, the question of “authenticity” has always been the basic proposition that audiovisual communication continues to pursue. In the Internet era, the boundary between non-fiction and fiction of pan-documentary audiovisual content has dissolved, and the paradox of reflecting the real and creating the real has given rise to a new round of authenticity issues. Under the double vision of culture and technology, this paper summarizes the revolution of documentary aesthetics from the 1980s and 1990s in the field of film and television to the field of the Internet, which has lasted for more than forty years, and tries to present the inter-constructive history of documentary culture and contemporary culture in China. The paper explores how people’s understanding, expression, and conception of the authenticity of Internet audiovisual content have changed with the generalization of the term “original ecology” through the evolution of the connotation and practice of the superficial discourse of “original ecology”. This paper argues that under the deep involvement of platforms and capital, concepts such as “original ecology” in audiovisual communication have been alienated in the tug-of-war between multiple parties, and documentary culture has been transformed from pursuing the real to experiencing the “sense of reality”, and the platforms have become the most important players in defining “real” through the use of algorithm, and in the process of the evolution of practice. Through algorithms, platforms have become the structural force that defines “authenticity” and influences the production of content, realizing the domination over the authenticity of visual communication through the creation of landscapes. Based on this, we believe that platforms should be involved in the reconstruction of the boundaries of “authenticity”. It is only by reawakening society’s understanding of the significance of documentary aesthetics that the fundamental purpose of aesthetic restoration and value correction can be achieved.

Watching TV has become an important form of leisure in Chinese people’s daily lives, and television as a family medium has also long been the number one medium in China. As a social cell, the family is the source of happiness, and watching TV affects people’s quality of life and happiness. Television viewing has both direct and indirect effects on subjective well-being. Based on the 2013 and 2021 China General Social Survey (CGSS) data, this paper finds that both daily TV viewing and free time TV viewing (or DVD watching) directly enhance people's subjective happiness, but only “frequent” or “daily” TV viewing can significantly enhance people's happiness, indicating that TV use has a certain threshold for enhancing happiness. This paper analyzes the indirect effect of TV viewing on subjective well-being through two competing mediation mechanisms, and the mediation analysis reveals that TV watching indirectly enhances people’s subjective well-being through promoting social interaction, but TV watching does not reduce well-being because of enhanced materialistic tendencies.

The historical TV series “The Age of Awakening” set off an upsurge in the creation of historical fanfiction on LOFTER, providing a case of local Chinese fanfiction creators participating in historical writing. This paper studies this through qualitative research methods such as online ethnography, text analysis and in-depth interviews, aiming to explore the new mechanism for participating in historical writing and subcultural community interaction among subcultural youth groups in the new media era. The study found that the fanfiction group carried out historical writing through subcultural ways such as design of “time travel” plot, substitutional imagination and coding on “Moe” principles. Besides, they carried out dialogue, negotiation and emotional cohesion under the framework of following the platform logic and mainstream values. The managing of subcultural community to form the “articulation” of emotion and history through the embedding and integration about the development of fanfiction community, business logic, internet governance and historical context. However, the sustainability about subcultural community of historical writing faces the uncertainty. This paper can contribute to understand the mechanism of public historical writing in digital subcultural platform, as well as the creative transformation in the subcultural context in China’s Internet Society.

This study conducted a survey of 389 smartphone users aged 60 years and above to examine their received support provided by families, friends and communities in the process of bridging the digital divide of the elderly. The direct and indirect effects of social support on subjective well-being were also examined. The results suggested that family members, friends, and communities all provided informational, emotional and instrumental support, with younger generations in families provided all types of support most frequently. The results also showed that social support provided by younger generations in families could significantly affect subjective well-being in older adults, while social support provided by friends could affect subjective well- being through perceived efficacy. This study explored the impact of social support in the context of digital divide, and extended the buffering effect model of social support. The findings also had some practical implications for improving subjective well-being of older adults in the digital age.

Relying on the theory of media political communication, this paper explores the influence mechanism of Chinese mainstream media use on popular political support, constructs a moderated mediating effect model, and conducts empirical analysis through large-sample netizen survey data. It is found that, firstly, the positive path of mainstream media use to popular political support is partly mediated by shaping the official ideological position of users. Secondly, authoritarian obedience personality weakens the mediating role of mainstream media users’ official ideological positions. Thirdly, the relationship between mainstream media use, users’ ideological positions and popular political support is heterogeneous. In the future, it is necessary to introduce cutting-edge political communication theories, build a more detailed analysis framework, and deepen the research on the mechanism of popular political support used by Chinese mainstream media.

Based on the “Asian phenomenon”, this paper makes an overall observation of Asian advertisements and analyzes all the Asian advertisements awarded in CLIFC of Cannes International Creative Festival from 2010 to 2019. It holds that Asian advertisements show the combined effect of Asian cultural factors and science and technology in strategy and creativity. On the one hand, Asian advertisements are saturated with cultural meanings. Cultural concepts and ways have influenced the creation and expression of Asian advertisements. On the other hand, with the improvement of the level of science and technology in Asia, More and more scientific and technological elements and technical characteristics are reflected in the advertising methods and effects. With the increasing involvement of science and technology in Asian advertising, the interaction between culture and science and technology will further promote the explosive dissemination and imaginative creation of Asian advertising and jointly promote the development of Asian advertising.

Based on the theoretical perspectives of mediatization and the sociology of time, this paper focuses on the practice of “blended teaching” in the education field, and explores the reconstruction of time discipline by media technology and the change of power relations, by using focus groups and in-depth interview. The findings show that the formation of “hybrid time” promoted by digital media has loosen the time discipline originated from the industrial age. In response, teachers fixed the time discipline by confirming the presence of the body during the teaching period, defining the time and process of teaching activities, and limiting the time boundary of digital media. While students tried to domesticate the time-controlling technologies by means of establishing the illusion of the association between time points and activities and constructing hybrid time. The detailed and real-time tracking of time-using continues and strengthens the simplification logic of technical governance, takes time from multiple subjective experiences, and challenges the deep relationship between time and self.

In local international communication studies, the mainstream research focuses more on texts, audiences, and effects, and less on the material substrate of international communication, which in fact conceals an “immaterial myth”. In fact, international communication has long been closely associated with media infrastructures such as submarine cables, artificial satellites, and data centers. Although these media infrastructures receive little attention in daily life, many of the usual online communications are difficult to achieve if they do not function properly. In view of this, under the influence of the “materiality turn” in recent years, media infrastructures such as submarine cables and artificial satellites have gradually appeared in local international communication research, but such research is still fragmented, and a series of myths still exist in terms of research methods and theoretical concepts. In this regard, we invited Nicole Starosielski, an internationally renowned researcher on media infrastructure and global communication, to conduct an academic interview. The interview focuses on the connection between media infrastructures and international communication research, related research methods, theoretical concepts, and analytical paths, in order to provide new ideas for the search of "alternative imagination" of international communication at the material level.