影像传播与符号权力:“农民工讨薪”的阶层分化研究

Video Communication and Symbol Power: Political Perspective of Migrant Workers' Wages Claims

从"农民工讨薪"事件的影像传播中可以发现,无论是"农民工"的阶层身份,还是"讨薪"的抗争过程,都不是一种简单的"劳资纠纷"现象,而是"阶层分化"过程。影像符号隐喻的政治权力无处不在,政治叙事也成了"讨薪"中独特的话语模式。其中,传统媒体与新媒体的政治叙事建构了"官民博弈"的舆论场,在这个场域中,影像符号成了阶层博弈工具,手段是技术层面的政治修辞、身份层面的权力生产、受众层面的符号消费。三个层面同位存在、同时发生:修辞路径中的戏剧性影像、新闻漫画、血腥影像,本身就具备了符号消费的潜质,符号消费的过程又伴随着政治权力的生产。

According to the video communication of migrant workers wages claims, it is not a simple kind of labor disputes, whether in migrant workers class identity or in wages claiming process, but the question of stratum differentiation. Video symbol metaphor of political power is conspicuous, and then political narratives become unique utterance mode of wages claiming. The traditional media and new media have constructed the public opinion field of the government and the people~ confrontation. In this field, video symbols become fighting tools, the methods of which is political rhetoric in technical level, power production in identity level, symbol consumption in audience level. 3 levels exist at the same point and the same time： the dramatic videos, news cartoon and bloody videos in rhetoric ways possesssymbol consumption potential itself, and the process of symbol consumption is accompanied by political power production.