Research On "Symbolic Violence" In Media Field

As a research perspective,"symbolic violence" in the media originatedfrom<<Sur la television>> which was written by Pierre Bourdieu. About the"Symbolic Violence", Bourdieu talked a little in the book, and take it as amethodology more often than not. This thesis relies on Bourdieu’s thought and try tomake a comprehensive study about "Symbolic Violence".Since media exists everywhere and has significant effect for audience and society,it is quite necessary to make a study about "Symbolic Violence". To classify itsconnotative and denotative meanings, the author firstly defined "Symbolic Violence"and the difference with "media violence", then she labeled the types of changefulobjects on the visual and auditive viewpoints.Starting from the notions "Idol Adoration","Cultural Identity" and "ConsumeSociety", the thesis analysed many problematic tokens, such as "MalpositionAdoration","Cultural Identical Crisis","Consume Sense Absent" and so on. Finally,we recognized "Symbolic Violence" in the media cannot be eliminated. It has nomean to criticize and strive with it, so what we should do is tovunderst and itsoperational mechanism to evade. Then for the audience and media, we should advisethem to take their responsibilities. Only the media transmit the messages based on thefacts and the audience accept them rationally, the future of media circumstance canhave a good developmental prospect with the efforts of both sides.