Review of Chinese Communication Studies in 2017

Key words: meta communication, surface description, collective memory, emotion, labor

Abstract:

This paper collects hundred pieces of researches of Chinese communication studies in 2016, selects and categorizes them into ten modules by the criteria of question consciousness, research method and findings. These studies are reviewed into ten themes as follows: metacommunication, reexamining classical theories, methodology of communication studies in the Internet era, concepts and discourse analysis, collective memory studies, media technology in communication intellectual history studies, social protests and sentiment studies, labor studies, political communication and science communication.

Published in Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication, Issue 01, 2018

Author:

Fang Hui, PhD student, School of Journalism and Communication, Renmin University of China.

Liu Hailong, Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, Renmin University of China, Deputy director, Research Center of Journalism and Social Development, Renmin University of China.