Mass Media And Modernity,

Late 19 century, as the top-ranking highbrow, journalist tried their best to imagine a new nation-state by newspaper. They had special characteristic, and felt nation-state in a politic and military crisis. They called on and lead mob to shape identity, and made state turn to a rood of west-centrism. Since 1949, as one of the mass media, film lost other functions except ideology, became the tool of highest governor. They constructed revolutionary history by video and dreamed up a world god. After being renewed the function of economy, TV participated in the construction of social transform, and became a Titan of enlighten the masses. Digital media endows Chinese populace with the character of equality title, and made conditions for reconstruction of Chinese modernity.This article has a basic proposition-When the west modernity introduction China, itchanged deflection for the special and dense Confucius culture of disseminator and embracer. We can looked for imperfection and reconstruction really modernity. It will be one of rectification for west-modernity, enriches the multi-modernity, and offer a possibility for human.The article mostly manages an abroad methodology of communication ethnography, brings especially colony into media culture study. So it can make traditional intellectual and living person as the correspondence between mass media and social development.The article approximately selects four historic phases by the rise of mass media in China as the jumping-off point, and time as order. A representative mass media is selected in every phase: newspaper-film-TV-digital media, which include manifold media. We can construction a course of modernization by the direction of communication, the degree of audiences' participant, the degree of deconstruction for tradition, and the influence for modernity factions etc. To choose personal factor of media, we can unfasten the sticking point of puzzling mass media, and sticking out the core spirit that makes human as fundamentality of Confucius culture.