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Risks With The Media, In The Vision Of A Harmonious Society

Posted on:2011-08-31Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:W B FuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2208330338475002Subject:Journalism
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With technological advances, man has made a conquest of nature, another major victory. At the same time, technology is also increasingly highlight the side effects, which are in turn punish human beings, people are paying the price for their achievements. Emerging risks, social life and danger. In this sense we can say that mankind has entered a "risk society" era. "Risk" has become the way of human existence, it is man's fate, of the risk of great significance.Risk research can be divided into two schools: one group held realistic view that the risk of real; faction holds constructivism the view that although the risk exists, but it is mainly a discourse interaction, meaning the product of the struggle It is to be constructed phenomenon. In the banner of the theory of constructivism, there are three theoretical perspective: one is the "cultural symbols" on the second, the "risk society" theory, three for the "law rule" theory. Among them, Ulrich Beck and Anthony Giddens the elucidation of the "risk society" on the most affected.Risk society, the media played a key role. On the one hand, presentation and perception of risk is mainly done by the media, the risk society, the main function of the media are warning risk, risk mitigation, risk education, risk selection, manufacturing risks; the other hand, the modern high-tech media product, the media system in the social fabric, so the media itself has hidden a huge risk, mainly as a medium risk technology, media, information and cultural risk, medium risk public opinion, media, four aspects of moral hazard. Of course, the media is against China, it faces its own unique risk, a risk for the trust, the second for the competing risks.Present a major political objective in China is to build a harmonious society. For the media were concerned, is to correctly understand the risks, the media, and harmonious society. To improve their function, social risk management, the fundamental solution lies in institutional innovation is the pursuit of fairness and justice; the media do the agents of political change, community relations coordinator, supervisor of justice, the advocates of advanced culture. Government should be able to control the social risks, to improve the social risk management system, improve risk response capacity. Only among the whole society to form a proper risk awareness, harmonious society be finally completed.
Keywords/Search Tags:risk, media, harmonious society
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