Modern Media In Living Of Hui Minority Of Chinese Country

Hui is a national minority containing more population, which has its special property in culture. In the process of modemizatiion, Hui people in China's minority areas have possessed many different kinds of mordern media. People of Hui nationality have been in the environment composed by media. How do the modern media infiltrate into the daily lives of Hui minority and what roles does it play? Based on a fieldwork in the Xiali Villege, Dayang Township,Zhangjiachuan Hui Autonomous Prefecture, Tianshui City,Gansu Province, the article has answered this question from many aspects.The article is composed of three chapters. The first chapter introduces the general situation of Xiali village and the media environment. The second chapter explores how the traditional folk culture influences popularization of modern media and media choice of people of Hui nationality. The third chapter is the focal point of essay: firstly, illuminating the role of modem media in pastimer, pedagog, and masscult guide from the angle of selection of media matter; secondly, analyzing the deep reason between information-poor and information-rich by the knowledge-gap hypothesis, which is that the different socioeconomic makes great discrepancy in contacting and using media, meanwhile, informational communication by media aggravates the hierarchy division in information society; finally, explaining the influence of modern media to the traditional nations and living style of Hui nationality.Based on two kinds environment:culture environment and media environment,this article dissertate mordern media in the culture environment and traditional folk culture in the media environment.