From "Oil Base" To "Urban Community":Jianghan Oilfield As Space Media

For a long time,isolated mining and industrial area(IMIA),as an important supply of energy resources,have made important contributions to national economic construction and social development.However,with the national economic development entering the new normal,the national development strategy and development needs have changed,the oil industry is facing transformation,and the mining area of Jianghan Oilfield Based on the oil industry is also facing transformation.In 2020,the separation and transfer of "four supplies and one industry" and other social functions has been completed.This independent industrial and mining area,which has been operating for nearly 60 years,will be completely divided into a part of Qianjiang urban area.Jianghan Oilfield has never been just a place for the country to exploit and process oil.In the process of its initial construction,128900 oil people from all corners of the country have accumulated their arduous struggle and entrepreneurship experience.Jianghan Oilfield,which reposes the complex feelings of oilfield residents about "home",has become a media space intertwined with various relationships and meanings.Therefore,this paper interprets why Jianghan Oilfield is a space medium from the perspective of communication,and expects to analyze its space structure and communication value when Jianghan Oilfield is dying as a "cultural enclave".This paper takes participatory observation and interview as the main research method,supplemented by various materials such as Jianghan Oilfield Yearbook and Qianjiang County Chronicle,focusing on the social relations of Jianghan Oilfield space and space construction.Jianghan Oilfield IMIA is not only a measurable physical space,but also a symbolic space in the minds of people living here.They are constantly constructed interactively in the actual communication practice.Therefore,this paper advocates starting from the perspective of spatial media attributes.The first part explores what space media is through the relationship between media,body and space,introduces the theory of body communication,and demonstrates how cities connect people and society in the form of open containers.The second part explores the construction process of material space in Jianghan Oilfield,and discusses in detail why public infrastructure has obtained the initiative to carry out communication practice,and the media has become an organic part of society.The third part explores the space practice from the perspective of "people".With the help of residents’ specific communication activities,it focuses on how the space becomes a communicable urban communication network.Among them,it expounds the complex overlap of virtual and real space by analyzing the elements of "units running folk festivals" and "Shuishan" integrated into residents’ daily life practice,so as to realize residents’ identity construction and sense of belonging to the place.In the fourth part,through the oral statement of the residents of the oil field on their work and life,taking the open-ended question "where is my home" as the idea,the author unfolds the activity track and behavior significance of individuals in space.This small oil town connects people from all over the world and practices the space practice of "offering oil to the motherland" all day.The translation of space media makes new social relations and significance appear,and realizes the construction and representation of social memory.This social memory also plays an important role in the process of intergenerational communication,and Jianghan Oilfield itself has become an open container for constructing human closely intertwined communication practice.