Space,Power And The Transmutation Of Culture:the Cultural Studies Of Shanghai People’s Square

In our daily life,media is everywhere.it’s no doubt media is important to people.Also for this reason, the research of making media as ecology gradually becomes important researchful paradigm of communication.At the same time,in recent years,"space"got more and more widely attention in Academia.Space is for media.From the perspective of media ecology,we can not only explore the characteristics of the space as the information carrier, and are more likely to focus on to discuss the relationship between space and society.Thus,In this dissertation,"space" and "power" as the logical starting point,Shanghai People’s Square space as a medium of text,which I try to carry out cultural studies aiming at,and treat it as a typical representative to study the communication of urban culture.The dissertation focuses on the production of square space, space to construct all kinds of social relations, and thus explore the cultural politics,cultural practices and differences in the square space,to interpret cultural transmutation of the people’s square.I look forward to care for the city of Shanghai’s characteristics of the production and reproduction of the space in different periods,and can reflect the changes of Shanghai’s political change, economic development,urban public life and cultural level,and then from a particular perspective to grasp different era Shanghai Urban Space cultural identity. And I hope through the Shanghai People’s Square analysis,to reveal the characteristics of the changes of the same type city’s central square,the rules and the profound reason of the cultural transmutation of the square.The study found the style of the People’s Square space has experienced the transition by human leading to construct domination. After the founding of New China,the people as a group is the subject of the People’s Square; since the nineties,the landmark buildings replacing the scattered individuals become the subject of the People’s Square.The production or coding of people’s square space media possess political nature and ideology.Its predecessor Racecourse long continually conveys the colonists’ power discourse, and constantly to cure people’s perception of Happy Valley Chamber functions. After the founding of New China, the People’s Square was built a political space to consolidate and strengthen the legitimacy of the political party’s power, remodeled a political symbol in line with socialist ideology.In the nineties,after alteration of the People’s Square,the Shanghai Museum, Shanghai Grand Theatre,People’s Building,Urban Planning Exhibition Hall and other different styles’ landmark buildings collage together and form the People’s Square integral space.the People’s Square space becomes a media centralized disseminating and displaying Shanghai’s reform opening up,economic development and urban construction of a new image.Square space communication presents dominant, negotiated and oppositional three different decoding methods,dominant and negotiated decoding are the main decoding characteristics. In general,dominant and negotiated decoding action can be classified as in accordance with power coding space activities,square space consumption,the vast majority of communication and practice.Decoding operation and consultation between the dominant overall space activities can be classified as consistent with the power-coded, both of which occupy the vast majority of square space consumption,communication and practice.The oppositional decoding behavior is beyond the control of space and back reversed.Space representation of the People’s Square is the dominant space,but because of the existence of different spatial decoding practice,which will produce multi-dimensional reproduction of space.Which decoded by the dominant practice space constructed by the reproduction space belongs to a formal,mainstream space,in line with the idea and location of power.On the contrary,the reproduction space formed by oppositional decoding is marginalized,and only a narrow room with limited space. Spatial practices in the People’s Square presents multivariate tending to be single and returning diversification again. Strengthening the power of control,all kinds of social relationships tend to be more organized,be regulated,integrated,tend to be more homogeneous space in various social activities.When power control weakened,more multidimensional social relations,space consumption,communication and vitality will be freed practice,with diversified characteristics.People’s Square space(covered Racecourse period) management style constantly changing,reflects the standardization-administration-standardized transition characteristics.The overall space-power operation of square,reflects the transition from political to de-political,but that does not mean to. weaken the political power of the role,power is implicit rather than explicit in a more significant way potential operation,but in reality is depoliticized politics.