Consuming culture and public politics
I planned to write something on Super Girl. Today, I readed this article online and decided to quto it. You can read more in the following paragraphs
Sorry for those who cannot read in Chinese. The article said that Super Girl election is turned from a entertaining event to a social event. For me, I would rather say that it is a media event. Ordinary people have no where to hide from this media hype. Why? There are too many sensitive topics which cannot cover in china. The media have turn to entertaining events, even dig for entertaining factors in other area. For example, the media sell Clinton's visit to Hangzhou with "old good-looking man" as their main mesage. Chinese media is entertaining orientated, popularized and tabloid-like.
Abstract:
超女事件的一个重要特征就是思想公众把一个娱乐事件转变为一个社会事件,这是继1990年代“人文精神”和大众文化讨论以后的重要转变。先前的讨论关心的只是审美、趣味或精神追求的雅俗高下之分,而如今则已经开始涉及大众文化、娱乐和文化消费的“民主”、“公民”和“公民社会”问题。尽管由于“短平快”式的观点交锋，这些问题还没有充份展开，但可以预见,在“超女”热潮和短平快的评论迅速消失之后, 这些问题以及其它有关如何理解民众公共政治特征的问题会继续在各种与大众文化和群众社会有关的讨论中不断出现。
You can read more on http://column.bokee.com/89138.html
Sorry for those who cannot read in Chinese. The article said that Super Girl election is turned from a entertaining event to a social event. For me, I would rather say that it is a media event. Ordinary people have no where to hide from this media hype. Why? There are too many sensitive topics which cannot cover in china. The media have turn to entertaining events, even dig for entertaining factors in other area. For example, the media sell Clinton's visit to Hangzhou with "old good-looking man" as their main mesage. Chinese media is entertaining orientated, popularized and tabloid-like.
Abstract:
超女事件的一个重要特征就是思想公众把一个娱乐事件转变为一个社会事件,这是继1990年代“人文精神”和大众文化讨论以后的重要转变。先前的讨论关心的只是审美、趣味或精神追求的雅俗高下之分,而如今则已经开始涉及大众文化、娱乐和文化消费的“民主”、“公民”和“公民社会”问题。尽管由于“短平快”式的观点交锋，这些问题还没有充份展开，但可以预见,在“超女”热潮和短平快的评论迅速消失之后, 这些问题以及其它有关如何理解民众公共政治特征的问题会继续在各种与大众文化和群众社会有关的讨论中不断出现。
You can read more on http://column.bokee.com/89138.html
posted by Beaver at 2:29 PM
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