苦难表征、媒介代理与公众同情:失独新闻的情感驯化实践

Representation of Suffering,Media Agency,and Public Sympathy:The Practice of Emotional Domestication in"Shidu"News

媒体如何将“远方的苦难”与普通公众产生关联并邀约公众参与其中?本文以“驯化”为概念工具,分析媒体对失独苦难的情感驯化策略及其影响结果。研究发现,媒体使用图像模态的视觉冲击、时空叙事与代理语言以及“外化”失独苦难等情感驯化策略,拉近了失独苦难与公众的心理距离、情感距离和社会距离;公众在网络空间中产生了谴责式、慈悲式、感同身受式和无力感式同情。由此,失独苦难就被驯化为一种具有道德教育功能的社会实践。

Based on domestication theory as a conceptual tool,this paper analyzes the emotional domestication strategies of the media towards the suffering of"shidu"families,the term for parents who have lost their only child,and the corresponding impact.Research has found that media use the visual impact,spatiotemporal narrative and proxy language through image modality,emotional domestication strategies as well as"externalizing"the suffering of"shidu"to narrow the psychological,emotional and social distance between the suffering and the public.The public has developed condemnatory,compassionate,empathetic and helpless sympathy in cyberspace.Thus,the suffering has been"domesticated"as a social practice with moral education functions.