大众传媒与晚清革命论略——以思想史为视角

晚清社会思潮的嬗变乃至辛亥革命的爆发与近代大众传媒的出现有着密切的关系。甲午战前,知识精英主要通过著书立说或上书言事对社会产生影响;甲午战后,则通过大众传媒而加以广泛传播。以报刊传媒的方式议论时政,影响舆论,使严重的民族危机和腐败的清王朝都得到了"倍数效应"和"扩散效应"的放大和流播。其催化作用,为动荡的晚清社会增添了极大的变数,也使"革命"二字开始深入人心,晚清革命即如欲来的山雨,指日可待。

On the Mass Media and the Revolution in the Late Qing Dynasty

The trends of thoughts were closely related to the appearance of modern mass media in the Late Qing Dynasty. Before the 1894-95 Sino-Japanese war the Chinese intellectuals mainly made their voices known through writing books or presenting memorials to the emperor.After the war,however,they made good use of the modern mass media to spread their ideas as they came to find newspapers were very effective in publicizing their views on current affairs and politics.With the public opinion greatly influenced,the seriousness of the nation's crisis and the decadent nature of the government were successfully magnified and the idea of revolution spread far and wide among the people.Thus the mass media played a catalytic role in the coming revolution.