Discourse Study Of Cyber-Nationalism Based On The Barrage Of "Awakening Age" At Bilibili

As a potential research field,cyber nationalism is constantly deconstructed by new thoughts and new culture,showing more and more diversified characteristics.In the context of close international relations and the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation,the narrative of cyber nationalism is containing more diversified contents.The history writing in Films,television dramas and historical textbook integrate the national trauma and national glory,these topics involving real politics,history and culture can always awaken people’s imagination about the country and nation,stimulate the “discourse community” to speak about the suffering and glory of the nation,which makes cyber nationalism evolved into a discourse practice.At the same time,with the empowerment of network technology,the form of network nationalism continues to develop and increasingly evolved into a daily cultural phenomenon.In particular,with the prevalence of network subculture,the youth groups growing up on Bilibili integrate into the circle of patriotism in a unique discourse,constantly subvert the grand narrative of traditional nationalism and construct a particular discourse system of cyber nationalism.It can be seen that the discourse of cyber nationalism has extremely “growability” both in content and form,which provides a new dimension and space for the study of cyber nationalism.From this perspective,this thesis takes cyber nationalism as a discourse practice and takes Awakening age as a narrative resource,aiming to study the cyber nationalism discourse in the barrage of the Awakening age on Bilibili.In Foucault’s view,discourse is the organic unity of symbol and meaning,and the unity of content and form.At the same time,discourse practice is in social relations,so discuss the discourse will inevitably avoid the observation of discourse power,which provides us a basis for studying cyber nationalism discourse.Along this idea,this thesis aims to study how the barrage community in Bilibili’s "Awakening age" video has produced diversified theme types through diversified narrative resources;how to use subculture expression rules to refoem grand narration,then form a unique style;how to formulate discourse rules with official ideology,and build a circular and interactive discourse power production network.The above can be summarized as focusing on studying discourse content,discourse expression and discourse power.The second chapter of this thesis is narrative resource and theme analysis of the discourse.As a significant revolutionary historical TV series,Awakening age provides rich narrative resources for the barrage community to produce cyber nationalism discourse.They have a strong sense of national pride in the comparison of historical trauma and real achievements,and express national emotions in the imagination of Chinese-foreign relationship and the memory of various international conflicts between themselves and others.Then they rely on historical trauma,real achievements,international conflicts and other narrative materials,constructed diversified discourse theme types such as struggle to the end,rejuvenation and rise,finally completed the observation of “today’s China” in the imagination of “yesterday’s China”.The third chapter mainly discusses the expression methods and style characteristics of discourse.In the barrage of the Awakening age on Bilibili,the barrage community transform the mainstream discourse by using subculture expression methods,such as “passionate politics” and“idol worship”.They collages subculture elements with political discourse,and use the hybrid codes and other means show their characteristics,subverts the grand narrative of traditional nationalism,and construct a distinctive subcultural style characteristic of cyber nationalism.The fourth chapter in this thesis focus on the power presentation bebind the discourse.The process of discourse construction is also the process of power production and operation,this chapter explores the operation of power behind the discourse from the perspective of a micro-power view.In the symbolic game of the collage between subculture and nationalism discourse,subculture groups obtain subculture capital and production significance through distinctive stylized features,which makes mainstream discourse actively consult with it.At the same time,the mainstream narrative of official ideology also infiltrates into subculture narrative discourse,they set discourse rules and realize the flow and reproduction of ideology,and then constitute the power production network of the whole circular operation.Finally,the fifth chapter is the problems and reflections of the discourse.The combination of subculture and nationalism has brought vigorous discourse vitality.However,in the face of the problem such as discourse carnival,circle expression,extremely narrow-minded,brought by the wrap between subculture and power,we should also reflect on what is truly valuable patriotism,and then strengthen scientific guidance to avoid its return to the old road of extreme nationalism.