Reconstructing the Ruined Tower: Contemporary Communications and Questions of Class
Reconstructing the Ruined Tower: Contemporary Communications and Questions of Class
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重建毁塔：当代传播与阶级问题
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2009
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Graham Murdock
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作者：
Graham Murdock
不久前，在目前的边界围栏竖立之前，媒体和传播研究是共同的土地。学者们从遥远的定居点聚集在这里收集数据，并放牧杂交育种产生的新概念菌株。点缀在景观中的少数建筑物大多是临时的事务，临时住所，为满足紧急需求而建立。唯一的主要建筑物是一座黑暗、令人生畏的石塔。无论你站在哪里，你的目光都会被它吸引，它的可见性使它成为无尽的猜测对象。有些人开始追溯它的起源和多年来的变化。有些人试图描述它的组织和运作。有些人记录了在那里生活和工作的人的故事，对破灭的希望和悲惨的生活进行了忧郁的叙述，或者讲述了英勇抵抗和顽强拒绝的激动人心的故事。然而，随着时间的推移，塔的地基出现了越来越大的裂缝，直到最终被宣布为不可靠并被拆除。它被一个时尚的新住宅开发所取代，每个住宅都是按照独特的设计建造的，反映了业主的特殊个性和偏好。阶级的垂直轮廓已经让位于差异的开放视野。
There was a time, not so long ago, before the present boundary fences were erected, when media and communications studies was common land. Scholars from far flung settlements converged on it to gather data and graze new conceptual strains produced by cross-breeding. The few structures that dotted the landscape were mostly makeshift affairs, temporary shelters, erected to service immediate needs. The one major building was a dark, forbidding, stone tower. Wherever you stood, your eye was drawn towards it. Its visibility made it an object of endless speculation. Some set out to trace its origins and transformations over the years. Some tried to describe its organisation and workings. And some recorded the stories of those who lived and worked there, crafting melancholy narratives of dashed hopes and blighted lives or recounting stirring tales of heroic resistance and dogged refusal. Over the years however, progressively larger and larger cracks appeared in the tower’s foundations until it was eventually declared unsound and demolished. It was replaced by a stylish new housing development in which each dwelling was built to a unique design reflecting the owners’ particular personality and preferences. The stark vertical contours of class had given way to the open horizons of difference.