媒体在以色列宗教世俗冲突中的强化分裂作用绪论.docx

Exacerbating Social Cleavages: The Medias Rolein Israels Religious-Secular Conflict媒体在以色列宗教世俗冲突中的作用:加剧社会分裂作者：Matt EvansThis article challenges the traditional model ofthe media as a positive agent forpolitical socialization. The increasing variety of news sources has reversed therole ofthe media, contributing to growing cultural fragmentation, rather than theunification of nations. One of the most volatile cultural cleavages in countriesaround the world is the clash between fundamentalist and secular members of thesame religion. This work explores the role ofthe media in societal rifts through astudy ofthe secular and religious press in Israel. The potentially divisive impactofthe media has implications for other countries in the Middle East that are alsocharacterized by religious-secular tensions.本文挑战了媒体作为政治社会化的积极剂的传统模式。日益增加的多样新闻来源扭转了媒体的作用，有助于日益增长的文化碎片，而不是国家的统一。同一宗教原教旨主义和世俗成员之间的冲突是一个在世界各国中最不稳定的文化分歧。这项研究探索的媒体所具有的社会裂痕的作用是对通过以色列世俗和宗教媒体的研究展开的。媒体对其他中东地区国家的潜在的分裂影响的特征还在于其对宗教世俗的紧张局势的影响。The media is a key actor in the development of a countrys political culture and thesocialization of its citizens. The ability of the press to reach across segments of society has made it an invaluable tool in sparking political change, bridging social gaps,and forging common national identities. Recent technological advances have providedincreased access to a wider variety of media and lowered the cost of producing news.However, contrary to similar historical changes, these advances have widened ratherthan narrowed societal cleavages.媒体是在一个国家的政治文化的发展和公民的社会的一个关键角色。记者跨越社会阶层达到的能力已经使其成为引发政治变革，缩小社会差距，锻共同的国家认同的宝贵工具。最近的技术进步已经提供了更广泛的多种媒体增加访问和降低生产消息的成本。然而，与类似的历史变迁，这些进步扩大，而不是缩小了分歧的社会。In most stable Western democracies the differences in media framing generallyreflect a narrow spectrumof differences between center-left and center-right ideologies. By contrast, in more divided societie