Research On The Construction Of Media Memory In Macao's Return

In the 20 years since the reunification,Macao has undergone tremendous changes,with social stability and an economic boom.Various media at home and abroad have carried out a large number of reports on Macao's return.These reports not only formed the collective memory of Macao's return,but also constructed the media memory of Macao's return.This article will use the reports of Macao's return to the two traditional paper media,"People's Daily" and "Southern Metropolis Daily" as the starting point,to study the reports of Macao's return to the two newspapers in the past 20 years,trying to find a specific structure What kind of media memory,and the strategies and characteristics of its construction.In terms of media presentation,the author found that the reports of the two newspapers "People's Daily" and "Southern Metropolis Daily" generally followed the main line of "one country,two systems" and continuous development.The specific data of the two newspapers also have their own characteristics.Compared with the "People's Daily",which is more political,the "Southern Metropolis Daily" also pays more attention to the economic and social development of Macao and the mainland while conducting current political reports.development of.Although the content of memory is complicated,the media memory constructed by the two newspapers can be roughly divided into specific parts of characters,politics,economy,and culture.The media has constructed a medium for the return of Macao to the people of peace and stability,social development,rapid economic development,and close cultural exchanges through the development of politics,economy,culture,witnesses of Macao's return to history,and personal memories of beneficiaries.memory.In terms of narrative discourse,the sample reports of the two newspapers both comprehensively narrate from the perspective of omniscience and focus on positive commendatory words.Regarding the choice of sentence patterns,the two newspapers mainly acted on sentence patterns and used comprehensively other sentences.At the context level,the two also used the symbolic technique to make Macao's return to the media memory's symbolism false,and used the "movie-style cutting technique" to splice the media memory.Through the analysis of the two newspaper sample reports,this article further discusses the factors that affect the construction of Macao's return to media memory from the aspects of politics,society,economy,culture,and media,and also points out that there are news convergence in the process of media memory construction.Qualitative,memory perspective is relatively single,poor readability and other shortcomings,and proposed suggestions to explore detailed memories,increase the proportion of individual memories,and "soften" hard news.