The essay reviews Habermas ’s social model, "system-lifeworld", proposed in his Theory of Communicative Action vol. 2, and tries to relate the concept of “ system” and “lifeworld” to the mass media such as newspaper, television, radio, and magazine. The author argues that contemporary mass media function both as the mechanism of system and as the symbolic reproduction of lifeworld. In brief, mass media can be seen as a sub-system of “institutionalized symbolic reproduction”. However, the author points out that the lifeworld mediated by mass media doesn’t fit the ideal situation of communicative action.
中文關鍵詞
系統,生活世界,哈伯瑪斯,傳播媒體、溝通行動理論
英文關鍵詞
system,lifeworld,Habermas,mass media,theory of communicative action