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The Analysis To KUSO Culture In The Internet

Posted on:2009-04-02Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y CaiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2166360245466425Subject:Journalism
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In the past few years, the Internet KUSO became a trend. There are more and more KUSO works in the internet,bringing more and more influences to our society. People extensively concern about this phenomenon . The Internet has entered a so-called "KUSO Time".The Internet Kuso deconstructed authority and art with post-modern expressions such as collage and parody. It has become a remarkable cultural phenomenon, but also has a series of the post-modern cultural characteristics: weakened of the alters' creative characteristics, destroyed of the art structure, new challenges of traditional ethical standards.This paper tries to improve understanding of the Kuso phenomenon, which is closely watched and controversial. Combining post-modern cultural context and considering with ethic and aesthetics, this paper discusses the extremism of the post-modern logic of KUSO works. As a resistance of youth sub-culture, KUSO has been analysed in this paper.This paper is divided into three parts. The first part of this paper summarized the phenomenon of Internet KUSO and its origin. Then this part classificatory analyzed the expressions of KUSO. The second part is cause analysis. It analyses the following three aspects of its origin: network technology and the environment, social and psychological causes, cultural background. The third part is the criticism on the Internet KUSO. In this part, some research methods have been used, such as content analysis, cultural studies, case studies.This part reflected on the Internet Kuso from the cultural perspective and analyzed the challenges to the moral, ethic, and aesthetic taste. The excessive extension of popular culture logic caused by post-modern deconstruction of KUSO has been discussed in this part.The conclusions of Birmingham School's research about youth sub-culture are used to analysis "ceremonical" "anti-hegemony" implied in KUSO works. We should be alert to verly optimistic views that KUSO can embrace a spring of democracy. Finally, in the view of political economics dimensions ,this paper reflect to the fact that capital and marke incorporate and utilize internet KUSO works.Finally, the author has concluded some concluding remarks that we are not to prohibit Kuso, but to keep a vigilant guard over its extreme and alienation, to pay attention to the negative cultural phenomenon of Kuso, and to achieve seek advantages and avoid disadvantages.
Keywords/Search Tags:internet, KUSO, culture, Postmodernism
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