奥威尔问题统摄下的媒介控制及其核心问题  

Media Control and its Core Problems Governed by Orwell's Problem

作　　者：单波[1] 李加莉[1] 

机构地区：[1]武汉大学新闻传播学院,湖北武汉430072

出　　处：《上海大学学报（社会科学版）》2008年第4期74-82,共9页Journal of Shanghai University(Social Sciences Edition)

基　　金：教育部人文社会科学基地重大研究项目(04JJD860002)

摘　　要：英国小说家奥威尔曾提出疑问:"为什么人对事实似乎知之甚少,尽管现实中的证据是如此丰富?"而媒体研究则是乔姆斯基对奥威尔问题探究的一个重要步骤。他认为,奥威尔问题的核心在于社会建制和政治力量能束缚人们的认知能力,意识形态更能封锁人们的视野。他一生孜孜探求的柏拉图问题与奥威尔问题,看似截然相反实则相互联系。乔姆斯基并未完成对奥威尔问题的探索,这一问题还有待在两个层面进一步开拓:一是公众逃避自由与媒介控制的关系;二是媒介话语的社会控制机制。English novelist Orwell has questioned： ＂How can we know so little, given that we have so much evidence？＂ To this question, Chomsky steered his research in media studies. He analyzed Orwell＇s Problem and concluded that social institutions and political power interfered with people＇s cognitive ability, and that ideology blocked their perspective. He spent his life in pursuit of Plato＇s Problem and Orwell＇s Problem, which are adverse but interrelated. Orwell＇s Problem, which Chomsky hasn＇t done with, is open to be developed in two levels; the relation between the public＇s escape from freedom and media control, mechanism of social control in media discourse.

关 键 词：乔姆斯基 奥威尔问题 媒介控制 

分 类 号：G206[文化科学—传播学]