30 November 2025, Volume 14 Issue 6

    

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  An Examination of the Evolution and Characteristics of Lenin’s Thought of Freedom of the Press

  Jia Lerong

  Journalism Evolution. 2025, 14(6): 3-12.

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  Freedom of the press is an important part of Lenin’s journalistic thought, and most of the existing studies analyze it on the basis of Lenin’s original texts, while fewer examine it from the perspective of evolution. As a matter of fact, Lenin’s thought of freedom of the press, like all his ideas of the press, has developed and evolved along with the practice of revolution and socialist construction. Therefore, the essence of his thought can only be fully and deeply understood in the specific historical context in which he engaged in revolution and politics. This paper systematically reviews and analyzes the development and evolution of Lenin’s thought of freedom of the press in the historical context of his revolution and politics, and then reveals its main characteristics. This paper argues that Lenin’s thought of freedom of the press is closely related to his revolutionary and political practice, while Lenin’s core view of freedom of the press from a class standpoint has remained unchanged, and finally that an important aspect of Lenin’s thought of freedom of the press is the provision of practical material guarantees for freedom of the press.
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  The Political Mobilization Framework and Mobilization Concepts of the Communist Party of China’s Documentary Images during the New Democratic Revolution Period

  Deng Xiujun, Song Wei

  Journalism Evolution. 2025, 14(6): 13-22.

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  Political mobilization has been the key instruments of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in achieving success throughout its revolutionary and nationbuilding processes. Since its founding, the CPC has explored and developed a unique and effective set of political mobilization strategies. This study takes documentary images—including stone inscriptions, news photography, and newsreel films—as its objects of analysis, and examines them through the theoretical lenses of motivational response and mobilization framing. It analyzes the political mobilization framework and mobilization concepts embodied in the CPC’s documentary imagery during the New Democratic Revolution period. The findings reveal that CPC documentary images adopted distinct mobilization strategies across three dimensions: Emotionally, they applied an “antagonistic frame amplification” strategy, emphasizing the CPC’s superiority and constructing the belief that the Party could lead the people “toward a brighter future.” Cognitively, they employed an “interest frame extension” strategy, highlighting the political and economic benefits attained by the people under CPC leadership, thereby conveying the notion that the people could “become masters of their own destiny.” Instrumentally, they utilized a “demonstrative frame transformation” strategy, showcasing exemplary models and their deeds to underscore the CPC’s capacity to mobilize and lead the masses in “building a new China.” Together, these mobilization frames and concepts reflect the CPC’s peoplecentered ideological framework, which constitutes the core essence for understanding the Party’s political mobilization and, more broadly, its political practice.
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  Paradigm Repair in Journalism: The Evolution and Turn of a Classic Concept (1985-2025)

  Bai Hongyi, Sun Jiawen

  Journalism Evolution. 2025, 14(6): 23-35.

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  On the 40th anniversary of the seminal journalism concept of “paradigm repair”, this study meticulously examines its evolving applications and theoretical shifts. The study reveals that the conceptual evolution manifests at four levels: the motivation for repair has shifted from addressing internal anomalies to resisting external systemic shocks, the theoretical scope has expanded from a Westerncentric focus to diverse global contexts, the subject of analysis has moved downward from elite institutions to individuals and audiences, and the theoretical core has evolved from a single concept into a multifaceted integration with theories such as boundary work. This also signifies that “paradigm repair” has undergone a fundamental transformation, from a descriptive tool explaining the “defensive maintenance” of the profession to a critical framework analyzing its “agentic rearticulation”. The driving force behind this shift lies in the continuous dissolution and reshaping of professional community boundaries in the digital age. This study traces the complete trajectory of this classical concept from its inception, through its expansion, to its deepening, and points the way for its future development in the “postparadigm era”.
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  Shaping Community: Circulating Knowledge and Constructing Professional Identity through Reading Modern Journalism Textbooks#br# #br# #br#

  Zhang Xueke

  Journalism Evolution. 2025, 14(6): 36-45.

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  Journalism textbooks are consensus documents about the journalism professional knowledge, which constructed the fundamental systems of journalism knowledge and discourse. This article investigates the reading community of modern journalism textbooks, which was neglected by previous studies, by introducing the perspective of reading history. It suggests that this reading community consisted of journalism students, professional journalists and ordinary youth. These textbooks not only spread journalism knowledge, but also constructed their readers professional identity. They have jointly shaped the interpretive community based on the textbooks reading, at the same time, taken part in the construction of whole journalism community that was still in development.
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  Living Alone VLOG”: Diary and SelfWriting in the Digital Age——The Identity Construction of Urban Migrant Youth Based on the Platform of Bilibili

  Li Jing

  Journalism Evolution. 2025, 14(6): 56-65.

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  With the evolution of the media, especially in recent years, the rise and development of VLOG have prompted the carrying form of the diary. Based on this, this study adopts the research method of digital nationality, and uses Bilibili as the investigation field, focusing on 75 mobile youth video diary creators in 5 cities across the country, and in depth analysis of the complexity between the content of video production and identity construction relation. Studies have found that “living alone” exposes the dual features presented by the digital interface as a means of identity construction: on the one hand, users use new tools to redesign their selfdisplay strategies; on the other hand To increase the platform’s control of identity reshaping and connection. Therefore, the status identity research in the digital media era requires both the subjectivity of the individual and the reshaping of the identity of the digital technology. In addition, under the dual dimension of individuals and platforms, think about the best balance between social connection and integration under the perspective of technology empowerment.
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  On ComparativeHistorical Analysis: A MetaApproach to the Study of Journalism History

  Wang Hanwei

  Journalism Evolution. 2025, 14(6): 66-75.

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  The current research on journalism history lacks effective methods for theoretical construction of historical phenomena. Among them, although the comparative method is widely used, it lacks systematic exploration. From the perspective of epistemology, comparative studies break through the limitations of rational historiography and historicism, transcend absolutism and relativism, and conform to the materialist conception of history. They are the methodological key to innovating the research on the history of journalism. In recent years, comparative historical analysis methods have gradually matured, encompassing specific approaches such as variable orientation (like statistical comparison and Boolean algebra comparison) and case orientation (like Millian comparison and narrative comparison). These methods have a preliminary foundation and broad prospects in the research of domestic journalism history. Overall, comparative historical analysis holds unique value in the basic process, constituent elements and goal exploration of journalism history research, and it is a metamethod for constructing an autonomous knowledge system in journalism.
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  Convergence and Conflict: the Landscape of Political Party Discourse Communication in Lu Xun’s Commemoration during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression——a Comparative Study of the Yan’an’s Jiefang Daily and Central Daily News

  Li Xiaoling, Sun Bobo

  Journalism Evolution. 2025, 14(6): 76-85.

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  Lu Xun, as a symbol of political capital derived from cultural capital, was an object of contention between the Kuomintang of China (KMT) and the Communist Party of China (CPC). Constructing Lu Xun’s image as a ritual, the KMT and CPC utilized their respective central party newspapers, namely the Central Daily News and the Yan’an’s Jiefang Daily, to commemorate him. This emphasized a communicative landscape where the discourse of the two parties converged and conflicted through the construction of Lu Xun’s image. The reverence and praise for Lu Xun’s literary achievements and antiimperialist and antifeudal thoughts demonstrated the homogeneity of the communication of the KMT and CPC’s political discourse. However, when Lu Xun’s critical discourse conflicted with the political discourse of the parties, the logic of discourse employed by the CPC, characterized by praise, elevation, and rewriting, was proved to be clashing with the KMT’s pattern of concealing, belittling, and suppressing discourse, which revealed the conflicting nature of political discourse communication. Ultimately, the CPC achieved a functional substitution of Lu Xun’s spirit to guide intellectuals obtaining cultural recognition and political allegiance. While, the KMT’s cold treatment and rebuttal in the newspaper led to cultural alienation among intellectuals. The difference of news discourses resulted in different communication effect. Its communicative nature is rooted in the struggle for discourse power based on the will of political parties and political reality, aiming at strengthening their legitimacy, authority and ideological dominance.
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  Research on the Information Dissemination Network of Ancient Chinese Post Stations

  Zhang Yun, Wang Huixia

  Journalism Evolution. 2025, 14(6): 86-95.

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  This study takes the practical paradigm of media research as the entry point, employs actor network as the analytical tool, and examines the information dissemination network of ancient Chinese post stations as the research object. This study aligns five aspects of media practice research—the definition of media, the constituent elements of media practices, media practice behaviors under media rituals, the operational modes of media practice activities, and the social impacts of media practices—with the foundation, elements, process, mechanisms, and value of network construction in actornetwork theory. It reviews the basis of the construction of the information dissemination network of the post station, shows the elements of the construction of the information dissemination network of the post station, traces the process of the construction of the information dissemination network of the post station, explores the construction mechanism of the information dissemination network of the post station. The exploration of constructing an information dissemination network of the post station can provide inspiration and serve as a valuable reference for forging consensus and promoting the sense of community of the Chinese nation.