Social criticism of Vietnamese press through some outstanding events

In recent years, the concept of “social criticism” and the role of social criticism of the press have become “hot” issues attracting the attention of many researchers. Social criticism and the role of social criticism of the press and media have also been chosen by many students, graduate students and researchers as their graduation projects from bachelor to doctorate. However, the appearance of social criticism in the above works is mainly in the form of articles or chapters to serve the research process, not yet systematized in a comprehensive and multi-dimensional way like a thesis or monograph.

It can be said that the project“Social criticism of Vietnamese press through some outstanding events”by Master Phan Van Kien is the first monograph, initially comprehensively and systematically studying the issue of social criticism in the Vietnamese press today. This monograph shows the passion of a young researcher with a new but not easy to implement topic.

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Instead of being structured by chapters like other research works, the monograph is divided into two main parts: Part one focuses on studying general theoretical issues of social criticism and social criticism in the press. Part two focuses on analyzing some cases of social criticism in typical press works. This structure, although simple, is very clear and logical in terms of content.

In part one of the monograph, the author presented both general and specific issues related to social criticism and social criticism in the press. The most successful part of this part is that although the author referred to many previous research works on social criticism, the issues mentioned do not coincide with those works. With coherent and reasonable explanations, the author has given readers a picture of a tight system of social criticism in the press from its origin to its concept, general issues about the role of social criticism in the press, the current state of social criticism in the press, and both objective and subjective barriers of the press in performing its role of social criticism.

Master Phan Van Kien is one of the first people at the Faculty of Journalism and Communication, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi to conduct a university graduation thesis on the topic of social criticism in the press.

Part two of the monograph focuses on an in-depth examination of three prominent events in the press in recent times. The three selected events are all typical events, with strong social criticism in the press, and each event has its own critical color. The author's success is not only in analyzing the critical content of each event in the press, but also in clearly pointing out the methods and art of criticism of each event in a series of survey articles.

Although this is only the first monograph on social criticism in the press, and also the first work of author Phan Van Kien, it shows the author's passion and effort in preparing materials as well as the survey process. In this reprint, the work has been supplemented with more materials and more rich, specific and closer analysis of the press situation in recent years. In fact, the author is also constantly adding to the previously built knowledge on this issue by conducting a doctoral thesis in journalism on social criticism of the press.

With respect for the author's passion and ability as well as the content and topic of the monograph, I would like to introduce this work to readers.