The Fate Of The Traditional Culture Of The Age Of Mass Communication

Lecture's Room is the continually hot cultural topic in 2005, 2006 and 2007,which holds grand public attention and attracts people's fierce discussion. Theacademic stars arose from Lecture's Room also face the double fate: on the one hand,they are followed and supported by enthusiastic fans; on the other hand, they areseverely criticized by other scholars within the academic circle. The thesis tries toanalyze this phenomenon as a special cultural incident under the context of Chinesesocial and historical culture, then exposit the deep meaning of the phenomenon.In the preface part, the author will briefly introduce the background and reason ofappearance of Lecture's Room. It will also reveal the hidden deep mental, cultural andmoral crisis through analyzing the phenomenon as the purpose of writing this thesis.There are three chapters in body part. In Chapter one, I elaborate the adjustmentand variation when traditional culture coming up to the modern media. During theprocess of adjusting, TV media occupies the dominant position, which determineswhat to talk and how to talk when traditional culture on stage. As well as traditionalculture, scholars also change when they walk into the modern media. To some extent,they deviate from the traditional intellectual identity, and come close to"the new-typecultural media person"or"TV intellectuals". And in Chapter two, the I take thevariation and the confining force behind the variation in mind, and point out Lecture'sRoom's tough surviving condition---being between government and market.In Chapter three, I analyze the essence of the hot debating arose by Lecture'sRoom, and try to draw into Pierre Bourdieu's theory of field splitting, then point outthat this is a crossing conflict among different field, then more or less, every sidemakes the mistakes in applying evaluation standard.In the concluding part, the author will explain and criticize the cynicism trendappears in Lecture's Room, and remind the intellectuals on the alert for realistic systemenvironment for cynicism.