Media Empowerment and Exit——An Urban Rights Protection Movement of"Moving into Unfinished Buildings"
In the digital era,the monopolization of public discourse has diminished,leading to an increased intervention by media as a tertiary agent within the state-society nexus,potentially altering the extant power structure under certain conditions.The dynamics of power relations in Chinese social rights protection movements,along with the mechanisms of third-party empowerment,extend beyond the explanatory scope of traditional static frameworks of power relations and theories of communicative pow-er.Within specific social action contexts,the power vested in various societal actors is not immutable;the state-society relations may shift in response to media intervention.Furthermore,media empower-ment is conditional and circumscribed.Post-public discourse,there remains a likelihood of the media acting as an"invisible"empowering force for the disadvantaged,akin to a"shadow".