媒体新视界

The New Visibility

现代信息传媒作为人类社会交流的新形式,创造了一种新型媒体视界。媒体视界为政治领袖们创造了新的机会,同时也带来了新的风险。当今政坛丑闻盛行,除了政治家本人的品格和可信度等因素而外,更多的是因为本文集中探讨的三个因素:即通讯和监督技术的变化、新闻文化的变化以及广义政治文化的变化。由于这三个因素,媒体视界成为当今公共生活中一支重要的政治力量。

The development of communication media,as a new form of social interaction,has brought into being a new form of mediated visibility,which has created not only new opportunities for political leaders but also new risks.The growing prevalence of political scandal in recent decades may be related to the character and trustworthiness of the political leaders themselves,but are more relevant to the three factors,i.e.,the changing technologies of communication and surveillance,the changing culture of journalism,and the changing character of the broader political culture itself,which renders the mediated visibility a powerful force in the public domain.