Bingchun Meng is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.
发表于2024-12-22
The Politics of Chinese Media 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
图书标签: 传播学 政治传播 政治学 自由主义 社会科学 社会学 政治 媒体
This book offers an analytical account of the consensus and contestations of the politics of Chinese media at both institutional and discursive levels. It considers the formal politics of how the Chinese state manages political communication internally and externally in the post-socialist era, and examines the politics of news media, focusing particularly on how journalists navigate the competing demands of the state, the capital and the urban middle class readership. The book also addresses the politics of entertainment media, in terms of how power operates upon and within media culture, and the politics of digital networks, highlighting how the Internet has become the battlefield of ideological contestation while also shaping how political negotiations are conducted. Bearing in mind the contemporary relevance of China’s socialist revolution, this text challenges both the liberal universalist view that presupposes ‘the end of history’ and various versions of China exceptionalism, which downplay the impact of China’s integration into global capitalism.
这本书对于历史的回顾是很有趣的,尤其是比较Mao时期Mass Line和近期对于这些思想的“回顾”在class division和经济变化的大背景下内涵(尤其是power)的重要区别(例如文艺的作用,对象和opponents)。我读到最后一章才看明白作者到底在说啥(最后一章强推)。前面关于depoliticized politics还是internet policy的讨论都属于重要但是略有些老生常谈了。电影那章很不错,虽然感觉和其他几章合不起来(感觉想讲讲neoliberalism和globalization)。anyway,3.5星。
评分参考文献综述
评分左翼视角很珍贵:相比于管理技术,更注重讨论媒体背后的权力结构,因此自然就比那些只关注管理手段和因果效应的庸碌之作更有批判性。但学界最终还是被无聊而缺乏批判的实证主义所把持,想想也挺难过的。对媒体市场造成景观社会假象的观察、对新自由主义和去政治化的思考、对哈贝马斯路线的批评,都不是非常新鲜的东西但都很有启发。对具体case的阐发有些浅显和单薄,往往就事论事,跟理论联系不足。大段引用当事人原文,但发掘其中的隐藏话语和内在矛盾不够。有的材料看来作者不甚了解,甚至将帝吧和小粉红混为一谈了。最后一章思路不错,直指民族主义动员内在的空洞性。全书理论上最大的问题在于,似乎将毛和后毛两个时期视为完全断裂的,而无视了其中的连续性。群众路线和媒体姓党当然天差地别,但前者如何蜕变成后者,这其中不是没有草蛇灰线的。
评分参考文献综述
评分这本书对于历史的回顾是很有趣的,尤其是比较Mao时期Mass Line和近期对于这些思想的“回顾”在class division和经济变化的大背景下内涵(尤其是power)的重要区别(例如文艺的作用,对象和opponents)。我读到最后一章才看明白作者到底在说啥(最后一章强推)。前面关于depoliticized politics还是internet policy的讨论都属于重要但是略有些老生常谈了。电影那章很不错,虽然感觉和其他几章合不起来(感觉想讲讲neoliberalism和globalization)。anyway,3.5星。
The Politics of Chinese Media 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书