Yu Fei was very happy when he first heard the news. However, a gloomy expression soon appeared on his face.
"That can't be right. This thesis might not change public opinion. It might even be more of a hindrance.
"Handong University must have good intentions, but it might be used by the Anti-Tengda Alliance."
Cui Geng did not understand and asked, "Why do you say that?"
Yu Fei explained, "It's an undergraduate's graduation thesis. The requirements are not high in the first place. No matter how advanced it is, can an excellent thesis be written?
"What can ordinary people understand even if they read a doctoral or postdoctoral thesis, much less an undergraduate's thesis? We still have to find faults when we need to. "
"The Anti-Tengda Alliance just needs to find a few experts and scholars to find faults in Boss Pei's thesis. They would use a magnifying glass to look for problems, and they would eventually find a breakthrough.
"Then, they could use these flaws to continue to attack Boss Pei's academic standards. They could even attack the fairness and rationality of Handong University in selecting excellent graduation theses.
"In other words, Boss Pei's thesis is only at the level of an excellent undergraduate. That's not enough.
"The Anti-Tengda Alliance might have attacked Boss Pei many times before, but they only seized on the fact that Boss Pei passed most of the exams. These might have an impact, but the impact would not be too great. After all, everyone knows that Boss Pei is busy with work. A passing score for an insignificant exam would not damage Boss Pei's image.
"However, a thesis is different. A graduation thesis is a concentrated embodiment of a graduate's thoughts. It would be difficult to deal with it if there were any flaws in this aspect!"
Cui Geng smiled. "So that's what you're worried about?
"Your worries are indeed reasonable, but don't worry. After reading this thesis, you will know that your worries are unnecessary!
"It would be difficult for those with ulterior motives to find fault with this thesis.
"Don't underestimate Handong University's professors. What kind of person is Old Kong? He's an academic giant! Do you think a paper that he approves will be a mediocre paper? "
Yu Fei was even more curious now. What kind of thesis would be difficult for haters to find fault with?
In Yu Fei's opinion, if he wanted to achieve this, he had to fulfill three conditions.
First, the thesis could not be too abstruse or too difficult to understand. Ordinary people had to be able to understand it. Otherwise, they would naturally fall into a situation where they were too high and too few to understand. They would also fall into the predicament of arguing over complex theories with some scholars with ulterior motives.
Only when ordinary people could understand it would it have a broad base of support.
Secondly, it had to be very constructive and have a certain depth. He had to bring up ideas that no one else had brought up before and make everyone's eyes light up.
Otherwise, people would definitely say that this paper was copying the experience of the predecessors. More seriously, some people might even accuse him of copying and plagiarism.
Thirdly, this thesis had to have a lot of empirical evidence so that those who wanted to nitpick could not open their mouths.
Theories without empirical evidence were just castles in the air. Many liberal arts theories had their own reasons, and no one could convince the other. Once they entered this situation, they would not be able to gain any advantage.
On the other hand, if one side had very successful examples to support their argument, the situation would be completely different.
However, Yu Fei also knew that this requirement was too high. It was not something an ordinary undergraduate student could do.
The first two points contradicted each other. How could the thesis be understood by ordinary people and be constructive and deep? It was not that easy to make it appealing to the common people.
The third point was even more difficult. Theoretical research and practical results had to be combined. This was to achieve the state of knowledge and action.
For an ordinary undergraduate student, this was an impossible task! However, if this person was Boss Pei, there might be hope.
Yu Fei could not help but look forward to it. He immediately clicked on Boss Pei's thesis.
The title of this thesis was' The Creation and Communication Theory of Popular Literature in the Internet Age '.
Seeing this title, Yu Fei could not help but suck in a cold breath.
The topic was too big.
Boss Pei was indeed Boss Pei. He had written such a big title right off the bat. A strong sense of confidence washed over him.
The structure of the thesis was very clear. There was not much foreshadowing. After the abstract and keywords, it went straight to the main topic.
The first part of the thesis was an analysis of the current predicaments faced by popular literature in the Internet age.
There were three main types of predicaments: the separation of traditional literature from ordinary people, the invasion of Western culture, and the impact of fast food culture and placebo entertainment.
The so-called popular literature was aimed at ordinary people. It had to satisfy the aspirations of ordinary people and express the aspirations of ordinary people. At the very least, it should be something that ordinary people liked and passed on the simple and excellent values of the people at the bottom of society.
However, many authors of traditional literature had been separated from social trends for a long time. It was difficult for them to understand the real cultural aspirations of ordinary people, especially young people. Their content was still stuck in the past. To a certain extent, there was even a tendency to break away from the masses.
Many intellectuals thought that they were better than others. They thought that ordinary people were ignorant and difficult to educate. On the other hand, art was elegant and high above the masses.
Therefore, these traditional works were becoming more and more separated from the aspirations of ordinary people.
At the same time, the invasion of Western culture made ordinary people more and more influenced by Western values. They gradually deviated from traditional Chinese culture.
The Western world relied on its strong cultural industry to produce many works that looked very good. However, were the values contained in these excellent works correct? Must it be flawless? Not necessarily.
In recent years, more and more people realized that the values contained in the so-called Western blockbusters were becoming more and more distorted. They were increasingly deviating from the simple and true feelings of human beings. They were especially incompatible with the traditional cultural heritage of the Chinese people.
There were often some unspeakable secrets behind the transmission of such values.
In addition, the impact of fast food culture and placebo entertainment also formed a huge obstacle to the development and spread of popular literature in the Internet era.
The so-called fast food culture was originally a neutral term. People needed to consume nutrition, but fast food could also provide people with convenience and cheap satisfaction. It was originally a very normal cultural phenomenon.
However, when fast food culture developed excessively, it became an unhealthy state.
It was like people who were tired of eating home-cooked food. It was harmless to occasionally eat fast food. However, if it completely replaced daily food and everyone ate fast food for every meal, all kinds of diseases would come knocking on their door sooner or later.
The same was true for the cultural industry. It was certainly not a problem to occasionally look at fast food culture for some simple entertainment. However, if a person's spiritual life was only fast food culture and there was no deep thinking, then his spiritual world must be barren. Over time, his thinking was bound to have problems.
What was even more frightening was that the continuous development of fast food culture turned into a placebo model!
The creators and producers of these placebo cultures filled people's lives with recreational entertainment and products full of sensory stimulation. They used direct, fast, and cheap entertainment to divert people's attention and dissatisfaction, making them indulge in low-level pleasure and unable to extricate themselves. They gradually lost the ability to think about real problems, and even completely lost the ability to learn and plan for the long term!
These three situations were obviously the content that must be avoided and resisted in the creation of popular literature in the Internet era.
If these series of problems were not solved, then the cultural field would inevitably become more and more divided.
Literary and artistic creators began to separate themselves from the masses. The creative content only played a role in a small range of spiritual life, unable to have a positive impact on the world and society.
With the continuous invasion of Western values, traditional values were subverted. Those who defended traditional values and those who accepted Western values began to become more and more incompatible.
There would even be fierce friction in many fields, and ideological conflicts would evolve into conflicts in reality.
And those low-level entertainment and placebo entertainment would gradually sweep through the entire cultural and entertainment market at the bottom, causing the people at the bottom to lose the motivation to think and move forward.
As a result, different groups of people would become more and more separated due to various factors such as class, environment, and values. They would become groups that could not understand each other, thus further strengthening the information cocoon effect.
This would obviously lead to very serious and terrible consequences.
Therefore, based on this predicament, the paper then proposed the necessary factors needed for the creation and dissemination of popular literature in the Internet era.
First, it was rooted in the foundation of traditional culture and the cultural aspirations of the general public.
In the Internet era, popular literature and art could not be completely separated from the foundation of traditional culture, nor could it deviate from the cultural aspirations of the people. It had to always stand from the perspective of the general public to create. It could not fall into the predicament of blind self-satisfaction, nor could it become an accomplice to the invasion of Western values and cut off the inheritance of traditional culture.
Only by meeting the requirements of the times and the aspirations of the general public could the mission given by the times be completed.
Secondly, the work itself had to have a certain degree of timeliness, trendiness, and even foresight.
It was not enough to only reflect the times. Excellent literature and art had to have a certain degree of trendiness.
It even had to be foresight. It had to predict in advance the problems that might happen in the future and give warnings.
This was not groundless fear, but planning for a rainy day!
Finally, in terms of expression, these works had to be compact and eye-catching enough.
The reason why many literary and art works with deep connotations were difficult to have a wide impact was because the emotions expressed were lengthy and difficult, and it was difficult to arouse the interest of ordinary people. It was even difficult to attract attention.
If a work could not attract as many people as possible, then how could its influence be increased?
For serious works, this was of course not a problem. This was because serious works were naturally high and difficult to understand. To read and understand, one needed a high level of literary attainments.
However, for popular literature and art in the Internet era, if one could not do this, then it could not be called an excellent work.
This was because the mission of popular literature and art in the Internet era was to spread positive values to ordinary people. If others blocked their ears and did not want to listen, how could one complete such a mission?
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