全球化的文化后果与世界主义的可能--汤姆林森文化传播思想研究之四

Cultural Consequences of Globalization and the Possibility of Cosmopolitanism——On Tom linson's Thoughts of Cultural Transmission

在汤姆林森的文化传播思想中,全球化构造的全球邻居关系是一种新型的邻居关系。它以现代传媒与运输技术为依托,虽然其建立机制发生了较大的转型,打破了时空的限制,但其基本内涵并未发生改变,是传统邻居关系的折射和放大。汤姆林森以全球邻居关系为前提,在批判此前世界主义话语的基础上,提出了超越世界与地方二元对立的世界主义思想。汤姆林森世界主义思想的建构从文化变革开始,在他的视野中,强有力的全球政治体制才可能培育更为成熟的世界主义文化意向,才能使世界主义成为可能。虽然他建构世界主义时强调普世与对话,但却又情不自禁地陷入了西方中心主义的泥淖中。汤姆林森的世界主义构想,是其文化传播思想中价值理想的集中表达,具有很强的乌托邦色彩。

With in the ideas of Tom linson culture dissem ination, the neighbourhood created by globalization is a new form of neighbourhood. It isbased on the technology of the modernmedia and shipment. A lthough its founding mechanism changes a lot and it breaks the restriction of space and time, its essentials never change. It is the refraction and amplification of the traditiona neighbourhood. Tom linson has the cosmopolitan neighbourhood as its prem ise. Itputs forward the cosmopolitan ideas of transworld and binary opposition on the prem ise of criticizing the cosmopolitan discaurse in the past. The creation of the Tom linson 's cosmopolitan ideas starts from the reform of the culture. In his vision only a strong political system can cultivate amore mature cosmopolitan cultural tendency and make cosmopolitanism possible. Although emphasizing on the universality and dialoguewhen he sets up cosmopolitanism, he can nothelp sinking into them ire of western centrism. The conception of Tom linson 's cosmopolitanism is the expression of the value ideal of the ideas of his culture dissem ination. Yet ithas a very dark colour of Utopia.