作为批判性社会学家的典型代表,乌尔里希·贝克一生笔耕不辍,在学术研究领域填补了诸多理论空白,提出了在当时看来非常新奇的论点,引发了不少的争议,被认为是当代西方社会学界最具影响力的思想家之一。其研究领域主要集中于“风险社会”“自反性现代化”“全球化”与“生态政治”等,先后提出了风险社会、全球化、第二次现代化等理论,在世界范围内引发了热议,产生了广泛的学术影响。在乌尔里希·贝克诸多的论文及著作中,其多次关注到了大众传媒在风险社会中的功用,并认为大众媒体的影响力是巨大的,但这种影响力在现实中能否实现、如何实现以及可能产生怎样的社会效果很难有定论,往往取决于所处的社会环境及政治生态。贝克认为,风险天然与媒介伴生伴随,于社会公众而言,所谓的风险感知与应对大多依赖于媒介所呈现的符号化景象,媒介在与风险互动的过程中,不仅传递着风险,同时也建构着风险,长期以来,两者在彼此共生的关系之中相互博弈。 As a typical representative of critical sociologists, Ulrich Baker’s penmanship in his life, filled a lot of theoretical gaps in the field of academic research, put forward at the time it seems very novel argument, triggered a lot of controversy was Considered one of the most influential thinkers in contemporary Western sociology. His research interests mainly focus on such theories as “risk society”, “reflexive modernization”, “globalization” and “ecological politics”, and put forward the theories of risk society, globalization and second modernization , Sparked heated debate around the world, resulting in a wide range of academic influences. In Ulrich Baker’s many essays and writings, he has repeatedly paid attention to the mass media’s function in risk society, and holds that mass media’s influence is huge, but whether this influence can be realized in reality How to achieve and what kind of social effects may be difficult to determine, often depends on the social environment and political ecology. Baker argues that the risks are naturally accompanied by the media. So far as the public are concerned, the so-called risk perception and response mostly depends on the symbolic scene presented by the media. In the process of interacting with risks, the media not only convey the risks but also construct With risk, the two have long been playing against one another in symbiotic relationships.