“媒介权力”的迷思:库尔德里“媒介仪式”的权力维度及其反思

The myth of “media power”:The power dimension of Nick Couldry’s “media rituals” and reflection on it

库尔德里提出的“媒介仪式”概念,是一种认识传播与仪式的新视角,以权力的维度发掘“媒介仪式”的独特视角和理论价值,并从其整体学术思想脉络进行探究,具有研究的纵深意义。库尔德里以仪式的形式化、冲突性和阈限性特征,考察符号权力的集中化与自然化机制,超越传播功能主义研究范式,使媒介权力嵌入合法化框架,揭示媒介的社会建构属性。此外,库尔德里对当代社会中媒介权力和媒介独特地位的关注,为“媒介化”理论提供了思想准备,但也带来对媒介具体所处政治经济条件的忽视;应将媒介权力置于社会整体系统,从而破解“媒介权力的迷思”。

The concept of “media ritual” suggested by Nick Couldry is a new perspective of comprehending communication and ritual. This paper discovers unique perspective and theorical values of “Media Rituals” on power dimension and with his whole academic thought. Nick Couldry examined the centralization and naturalization mechanism of symbolic power which is characterized by formalization,conflict of rituals and Liminality. He transcended the research paradigm of Communication Functionalism,legalized the embedding of media power,and revealed the social construction of media. Besides,Couldry paid more attention to media power and the unique status of media in modern society,got ready for the theory of “Mediatization”,but ignored the political and economic conditions. We should put media power into the vision of the whole social system to solve the “myth of media power”.