This article is an article explaining the "Twelve Lectures of Marxist journalism". It aims to help readers understand the background, train of thought, theoretical framework and knowledge system of the book, and grasp the writing intention, learning requirements and main contents of the book. Master the basic principles of Marxist journalism, in order to have a better study and practice of Marxist journalism.
Wang Zhong and Gan Xifen are the first-generation journalism scholars and educators. In this paper, their family background, educational background , and life experiences are compared to discuss the causes of formulation and divergence of their thoughts. And it is deemed that the key reason why Wang and Gan stands out, except for the sediment of their thoughts, are their identities as political elites as well as cultural elites under the new regime. Also, according to analysing “the debate between Gan and Wang”, this paper deems that this academic debate is caused by Gan’s critique to Wang’s news thought in the 50’s, but a more important fact is that the debate re?ects the contrast between two kinds of news thoughts, which shows the stages and tortuosity of the process of ideological emancipation.
The development of technology has brought new challenges to scientific ethics and the relationship between human and machine. In addition, media has already been redesigned by social platforms, citizen journalism and the blogsphere. As such, the boundary between mass media and fringe are becoming porous. Contemporary philosopher Rosi Braidotti reveals her thinking on the ethics of Gene editing, the subjectivity of human, the boundary between human and machine, algorithm and the publicity of journalism, as well as new university model and educational concept in the post-human era. She believes that the essential reason for these problems is that natural sciences are developing too fast, while humanities are losing its respects and values from the society. Although genetic experimentation inevitably involves the manipulation of capital, capital is not the only criterion for big decisions.
Through the tradition of European media sociology study from Williams to Silverstone then to mediatization study, this paper aims at presenting the possibility for the connection between media study and Actor-Network-Theory (ANT). The frst part of this paper will go with Williams’ famous research of television and social changes. It argues that the concept of “mobile privatization” is inherently connected to ANT’s perspective of techniques. Then it will turn to Silverstone’s media domestication research and analyze why ANT has a separation with media study. The third part is consisted of the reunion between ANT and mediatization study and highlights the understanding of “moulding force” of media comes from ANT’s perspective. This paper also discuss the future of media(tization) study in terms of ANT’s theoretical contributions in the last part.
From the theoretical perspectives of media ecology, this paper critically reflects upon the importance of media education, media literacy, and intercultural competence in the world’s increasingly globalized communication ecology. With the rapid development of digital technology, more and more people can enjoy the benefits of ever-changing web-based technologies and social media. But at the same time, they are also faced with many new social, economic, political, psychological and cultural issues. What role can and should media education and media educators play in helping address some of these issues? In this article, the author discusses these issues within the intellectual and historical contexts of media ecology, media education, and media literacy. Included in the discussion are how the work of several key figures in media ecology such as McLuhan, Culkin, and Forsdale formed the foundation of some important aspects of media ecology in North America, Postman's thermostat view on media ecology and media education, as well as Meyrowitz’s concept of multiple media literacies. These issues are closely related to the notion of intercultural competence in the context of globalization.
In 1920-30’s Shanghai, with personal struggling, media supporting and social needing, some journalists gradually gained fame from press circles, political circles to whole society. Journalists as celebrities were not only the internal needs of journalism professional identity, but also the external signs of social stratum ascending. Meanwhile Journalists as celebrities were the products of social democratization process and highly development of mass communication.
This study explores the modernization process of the social network of female newspaper practitioners in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China based on the theory of modernization and social networks. It is used as a window to explore the germination of gender modernization and the macro-narrative of the initial stage of development of "human modernization" of the entire society. This study finds that the construction of female newspaper practitioners’ social network re?ected the characteristics of the modern transformation during the period of social transition in late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, these are the social network from strong relationships to weak relationships and dependent trust to entrusted trust, the emergence of retrenchment circle, and quasi-kinship entering the differential mode of association, and the characteristics of women also applying to social interaction in a timely manner. All of those have become the motivation of the modernization of the female groups. However, in the actual operation, it is still dominated by the mode of interaction of traditional society. It also re?ects that the particularism is the basis and core, the collective orientation is greater than self-orientation, and diffusion is greater than specifcity. However, there are signifcant limitations that the construction of female newspaper practitioners' social network overly depends on the preemptive relationship, and benefts from the particularity of profession and the support of objective factors.
This article presented a detailed commentary on Michael Schudson’s The rise of the right to know: Politics and the Culture of Transparency, 1945–1975 regarding the author’s motivation, the cultural historical approach, purpose, and the implied journalism normative theory. This book further justifed the desirability of “monitorial citizenship” from the history of the rise and institutionalization of the right to know.Schudson treated the story as the ultimate result of the evolving power balance within the political system itself from sociology’s structural-functionalist perspective and thus denied the prevailing notion of participatory democracy.He proposed that watching over the political system is journalism’s proper role within the burgeoning new “monitory democracy” . In conclusion, the author criticizes Schudson’s argument and journalism normative theory and argues that citizen's active political engagement and participation in the public sphere is still essential for enacting the monitorial democracy he claims.
