Chinese Expression Of A Good Life:the Storytelling From The Perspective Of Mediatization

As a long-standing human communication practice,the storytelling unfolds in the people's conversations and contains the sharing,communication,interaction and resources mobilizing between the story-teller and the listener,with a special media logic and media discourse.It can be said that,people have weaved the meaning net of human society through the practice of storytelling before the words appeared.However,when the human's communication is mediated by the text and printing technology,the importance of "story" is gradually being replaced by "information".Then,the storytelling is at most regarded as a writing skill,and although its influence has not disappeared,it has already been sinking.At present,in the society of mediatization which is based on the internet,the practice of storytelling has been awaken and activated,and entering the different social areas with a penetrating media logic.Then,we have found out that,on the one hand,storytelling is regarded as an important way to innovate communication ideas and enhance communication ability,regardless of the professional media,institutional media or personal media.On the other hand,from the field of national politics,to professional groups,industry elites,or ordinary individuals have all started their own storytelling practice.Based on this situation,this paper starts from the interaction between media logic and various fields of society,and tries to grasp the key word of "good life",which is an important political discourse and social issue concerning the Party's struggling goal in the new era,the changes of the main contradictions in our society,and the daily life of every Chinese people.Using the methods of case analysis,text analysis and depth interview,this study tries to explore how the practice of storytelling to carry out in various fields of society,and how they construct a Chinese expression about a good life.Firstly,this paper demonstrates the process of storytelling as a kind of media logic,which from being appearing to sinking,and then to being activated again.At the same time,on the social construction path of mediatization theory,this paper points out that,we should turn the focus of attention from the story as a text to the storytelling as a practice,and in this practice,there are actions and innovations of multiple subjects,rather than a one-way impact of media on other social systems.Secondly,this paper focuses on the strategic plan of telling Chinese stories well that put forward in the field of national politics,which is generated from the interaction of political and media.In the context of mediatization,general secretary Xi Jinping and other leaders use the method of storytelling to explain the connotation of good life in the new era.In the international communication,Chinese story has become an efficient translator to break down barriers of communication between China and foreign countries,and has presented a better China.On the guidance of domestic public opinion,people's stories has become a powerful booster to innovate the way of guiding public opinion and occupy the commanding heights of information dissemination.Meanwhile,based on the analysis of general secretary Xi Jinping's important series speeches and relevant reports,this paper points out that,the practices of mediatization represented by storytelling of Xi Jinping,which are light,colloquial,emotional and Interactive,have achieved the fusion of macro and micro,rationality and sensibility,subject and object.In the Innovation of Xi Jinping's storytelling,the politics has realized the social arrival of the concept of good life,and has provided a framework for other social subjects to participate in the discourse of good life.Lastly,under the guidance of national political ideas,with the deep interaction of meidiatization and other social processes,the actors from various fields began to tell their own stories.In the first place,as the pacesetters of the storytelling,the mainstream media has built a matrix of the public opinion guidance.In the meanwhile,different industries began to call for good stories itself,and their elites has shared their successful experiences which can lead to a good life to the community and the public.In addition,more and more ordinary social individuals represented by the new immigrants began to tell their own stories in the media.In this process,the sense of existence,belonging and security,which acquired by the storytelling,has become the psychological support and spiritual sustenance to the new immigrants in their way to pursuit a good life in the metropolis.In the process of mediatization,the political field has put forward the innovative idea of telling Chinese stories well,and the leaders of state take the lead in applying the storytelling practice to explain the concept of good life,which has initiated the social resonance.Therefore,in the practice of multiple subjects' storytelling,political field,mainstream media,industry organizations and ordinary individuals has shaped the Chinese expression of good life together.And the thoughts of the story and information,media and people,and the practice path of media research,which triggered by the above process,have provided us a change to rethink the possibility of human's communication.Therefore,the author also hopes to make a contribution to the process of paving the road of Babel Tower by the study of storytelling.