Self-Censorship Through the Eyes of Hong Kong Journalists
Through the narratives of Hong Kong journalists on self-censorship, this paper asks—who is the “self” in “self-censorship”? In the attempt to answer the question, this study highlights the journalists' struggle for autonomy within their media organizations and in society in times of political transition. What is most disturbing in the findings is that some journalists are gradually internalizing the norms set by the ruling regime. This paper, therefore, argues that self censorship is a process of semi-socialization.
Media and Modernity
I already engulfed the industrialized West. The break-up of the Soviet Union, for instance, has unleashed democratic impulses while promoting nationalistic tendencies in the face of a wave of worldwide capitalism. Both the scholarly pundits and the popular press are now speaking of the world economy and of the cultural conflicts brought on by new communications technologies, from cable TV to satellites and fax machines.
The dialectic of ideology and technology
In this book, Alvin Gouldner weaves a dialectic of intellectual approaches to the questions of ideology. The sophistication of the new sociolinguistics, hermeneutics and its near relative, Frankfurt-style critical sociology, the revelations of social and intellectual historiography, some elements of traditional social science along with reflections on the experiences and moods of the world of the Movement, the counterculture, and the Watergate scandal all these find their places in the book. Some of it, I think, is a product of too much closeness to the particular situation of the late 1960's and early 70's. Other parts make a general contribution to the analysis of ideology that marks a major intellectual advance. For just how much of an advance, one need only compare it with the work of Mannheim a full generation ago.