失衡的流动:依附理论视野下的中国省际新闻研究

Unbalanced Flow: The Study of Chinese Inter-Provincial News based on Dependency Theory

不同的地理区域在新闻报道中的能见度不同,同一区域体系内部的新闻流中也存在着中心与边缘的区分,是不平等的政治经济结构在新闻传播中的再生产。现有关于新闻流动的研究大多以国家为单位,本文则尝试运用国际新闻研究中的依附理论考察中国各省级行政区之间的新闻流动。研究发现各省级行政区在省际新闻流中受到的关注差别悬殊,经济发达的省级行政区占据了省际新闻的主导位置,但不同省份在新闻流中的再现并未完全复制本身的经济层级,较不发达省份获得的关注多于中等发达省份。通过相关性检验发现,经济水平和人口规模对于省际新闻流动具有显著的正相关性,地理距离的影响则未得到统计数据的支持。基于此,本研究对于新闻流动的依附理论进行了延伸与修正。

Most of the existing studies about news flow see nation-states as units,while this study tries to use dependency theory in international news studies to research the news flow between provinces in China. Results indicate that the attention of every province towards inter-provincial news flow presents significant differences,and more developed provinces occupy a prominent position,but the presentation of different provinces in the news flow does not represent their own economic level,and less developed provinces receive more attention than moderately developed provinces. In addition,correlation tests indicate that the level of economic development and the population have a significant positive correlation for inter-provincial news flow,and the effect of geographic distance is not supported by statistical data.