关系研究与本土传播:一种媒介化的视野

The Research of Guanxi and Local Communication: from the Perspective of Mediatization

“关系”概念是一个相对比较成熟的本土化理论成果,它与传播具有天然的亲缘关系,可以援用到传播学研究中。媒介作为基础设施可被视为关系研究的关键变量,以填补既有研究的缺失。在中国,关系并非一个本质化的概念,而是人们处理问题的方法,其内涵充满开放性、经验性和历史感。它可被视为传播学得以本土化的有效通道,而媒介正是其支点。媒介可通过组织时空、培养惯习、重构权力等方式逐步实现对关系形态和关系文化的重塑。因此,传播学本土化可从媒介实践入手,关注媒介对于关系形态及其文化的影响,并将其对接到诸如乡土社会的维系和变迁以及社会治理等议题的讨论中。

The concept of“Guanxi”is a relatively mature and localized theoretical achievement,which has a natural kinship with communication and can be applied to communication studies.Media,as an infrastructure,can be seen as a key variable in the study of Guanxi to fill the gaps in existing study.In China,Guanxi is not an essential concept,but a way for people to handle problems,with its connotation full of openness,experience,and a sense of history.It can be seen as an effective channel for localizing communication studies,and media is its fulcrum.Media can gradually reshape the form and culture of Guanxi through organizing time and space,cultivating habits,and reconstructing power.Therefore,the localization of communication studies can start from media practice,focusing on the influence of media on the forms and culture of Guanxi,and incorporating it into discussions on issues such as the maintenance and transformation of rural society and social governance.