Media And Cultural Capital

How to transform Cultural resources into cultural capital is the important issues in the development of Chinese culture and cultural industries. From the fact, the thesis proposed the research question "how the media work and affect the cultural resources capitalized conversion ". The subject to develop a new path of the cultural capital conversion and a new field of Communication Studies, provides a theoretical support for China's cultural industry development and researchThe thesis selected Chinese martial arts and cultural resources for the study, the research questions and theoretical analysis rooted in reality the typical form of cultural resources; and using combination of qualitative and quantitative research methods, which content quantitative content analysis and semiotic methods and soft media determinism. focus on clarify the concept of cultural capital and discusses the role of media conversion of cultural capital in "two dimensions, four aspects of "mechanisms and models.The thesis is divided into six chapters:Chapter 1 Introduction to ask questions, introduce the research framework, focusing on combing and discusses the concept of cultural capital, which is one of the important innovation of this study; Chapter 2 describes the media capital of martial arts and cultural resourcesthe overall conversion patterns. Quantitative statistics to describe the conversion of capital form of martial arts and cultural resources; the following 3,4,5 is the subject and the focus of part of the paper around the media on the cultural capital into the two dimensions of the four aspects discussed is an important innovation of this study, Chapter 3 discusses the media from the micro-level production of the symbolic value of cultural capital and cultural values;Chapter 4 discusses the media from the meso level conversion of the economic value of cultural capital; Chapter 5 from macro-level discourse media configuration to cultural capital.As conclusion, Chapter 6 build frameworks of cultural resources capital conversion medium.The paper pointed out the limitations of Bourdieu, Throsby's of cultural capital theory. To redefine cultural capital and proposed to cultural capital symbolic value. The cultural capital reflect the three form of value:symbolic value, economic value and cultural value. And pointed out that the symbolic value is the essential characteristics of the cultural capital, cultural capital embodied in the symbolic value and economic value, rather than cultural values.Thus construct the framework and model of the medium on the conversion of cultural capital that is the media capital conversion of cultural resources is the media symbol of cultural capital, economic and cultural value creation and configuration of outer form, the essence of this process is from the cultural logic to the logic of capita by the logic of the media. the medium also constitutes a cultural capital accumulation and cyclic symbolic economic space.