近日,复旦大学信息与传播研究中心研究员潘霁教授的论文《时间校对:微信发布如何影响城市政府传播》被美国全国传播协会(National Communication Association)2019年年会录用,潘霁继2017年后再度获得NCA下属中国传播研究学会(The Association for Chinese Communication Studies)颁发的优秀论文奖(Top paper award),并受邀在NCA协会2019年年会期间参加优秀论文讨论专场。
潘霁的获奖论文从媒介实践理论入手,探究了微信政务发布公号的日常实践如何重塑我国城市的政府传播。根据对深圳,上海和杭州等城市政务发布的调研,潘霁提出微信平台通过在异质时间之间进行相互校对,利用包括人际信任和政府关系网络等既有资源,在技术中介化过程中重新设定了城市政府传播的时空秩序。“时间校对”构成了中国场景中基于灵活协调与相互合作的技术中介化方式。该文章已被SSCI期刊《Chinese Journal of Communication》录用。
潘霁近年来在包括《Internet Research》、《Chinese Journal of Communication》、《Journalism Studies》、《Journal of Internet Commerce》和《Telematicsand Informatics》等SSCI期刊发表论文8篇(7篇第一作者)。并在国内《新闻与传播研究》和《国际新闻界》等期刊发表多篇与网络传播和城市传播相关的研究论文。
美国全国传播协会(NCA)成立于1914年,是目前传播学领域规模最大、影响力最广的学术机构之一。协会每年举办学术年会是全球新闻传播学界最主要的学术会议之一,为来自世界各地的传播学学者相互交流、协同合作提供平台。美国全国传播协会2019年年会将于11月14-17日在巴尔的摩举行。中国传播研究学会于1991年成立,是美国全国传播协会下属学会和国际传播协会联盟(International Federation of Communication Associations)的成员机构,学会以提升中国传播学研究为宗旨,在海内外具有较强的学术影响力。
附:潘霁教授获奖论文摘要
Temporalityalignment:
How WeChat transforms
government communication in Chinese cities
Pan Ji
Journalism School,
Center for Information and Communication Studies,
Fudan University,
Shanghai200433, China
Drawing on media practice and mediationliterature, this study explores how the media practices of WeChat accountemployees have transformed government communication in major Chinese cities.In-depth interviews were conducted with government WeChat account (or Fabu)employees in Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Shenzhen. The analyses of the interviewtranscripts demonstrated that in daily media practices, the Fabu employeespenetrated deeper into internal government decision-making processes byidentifying themselves with the municipal authority, building binding ties byforging trustworthy dependence relations with other government offices, andspreading multiple WeChat expert networks to public sectors of the entire city.These routinized practices aligned the digital temporality of WeChat-basedpublic engagement to the legacy temporal order of communication within Chinesecity governments. The findings of this study contribute to the literature bysuggesting that WeChat engenders temporal alignment as a reconciliatory andasymmetrical mode of mediation that exploits trust and interpersonalrelationships to re-establish the time–space order of (semi)authoritarian citygovernments in which certain processes are difficult to change.
Keywords: governmentcommunication, WeChat, media practice, Chinese cities