Abstract

This study makes a systematic effort to connect digital communication research with comparative political analysis. It explores the concurrence of global influence and national resilience in digital spheres, integrating the homogenizing tendencies of networked connectedness and globalization with heterogeneous configurations of national political communication spaces, which are strongly influenced by enduring social contexts. Drawing on the process-oriented actor-connector-interlocutor model, this study uses three sets of indicators to classify national political communication spaces. It conceptualizes three distinctive types of political communication spaces – “symmetrical and fully-fledged,” “vigorous but censored,” and “infertile and unresponsive” – and identifies their characteristics, internal logics, and their linkages to other communication spaces. It offers a systematic and applicable framework that may be used in future studies on cross-national comparisons of political communication processes in digital spheres.

摘要

这项研究做出了系统的努力，以将数字通信研究与比较政治分析联系起来。它探索了数字领域中全球影响力和国家适应力的并发性，将网络连接和全球化的同质化趋势与国家政治传播空间的异质配置（受持久社会环境的强烈影响）整合在一起。基于过程导向的行为者－联系者－对话者模型，本研究使用三组指标对国家政治传播空间进行分类。它概念化了三种政治交流空间的独特类型-“对称且成熟”，“充满活力但受到审查”和“不育且没有回应”-并确定了它们的特征，内部逻辑，以及它们与其他交流空间的联系。它提供了一个系统的，适用的框架，可用于以后在数字领域中政治传播过程的跨国比较研究中。