The reading campaign is a representative of cultural policies. It has a long history and exists in a variety form. Before the 2000’s, it was based on enlightenment and education. The government and the school become a subject that leads the citizen ...
The reading campaign is a representative of cultural policies. It has a long history and exists in a variety form. Before the 2000’s, it was based on enlightenment and education. The government and the school become a subject that leads the citizen for reading, it is a general features. The subject was the cultural elites and the resultant of the campaign direction from the center to supply in the remote region and to diffuse. The government decided to open up the reading event, and the school handed over the book list to the new students.
However, from the 2000s, there were many changes in these practices. The reading is a cool issue when it compares with a hot potato on-line media and mobile. By a sort of accident, it can be a cold issue without any attentions. Thus, the axis of reading campaign was identified in two major targets. The first is to increase the participation of citizens, and the second is adapted to new circumstances of the politic environment (especially a new digital media technique).
This research has placed the elements to derive meaning for changing digital media environment. Recently two directions are found in developed reading campaigns. One is analyzed to increase the level of participation and the other is to adapt to a rapidly changing digital media environment. It extends the value of two directions for five elements in each and verified propriety in campaigns.
According to the analysis results of specific examples, an environmental factor such as development of digital media technology plays a key role to turn the citizen who passive audience of the reading campaign into active subjects. Changes in media environment have causal relationships between increases the political participation of citizen and changes media consumption behavior.
Especially, ‘The Road of a book created, Knowledge Map 2011’ reading campaign was the first trial campaign that lead the public to participate for selecting an object of knowledge map and share and spread the results. The purpose of this campaign would be recommendation of reading to public and providing an active and systematic model of reading by create their own knowledge map. Through this campaign, if people have their own knowledge map, it creates a collective intelligence and it would begin the process of evolution by itself. The past of reading campaign was unilateral and top-down indoctrination of recommended books and choice and spreading out the excellent book report and memoir by the government or elite group of nonofficial sector, but present reading campaign is based on a planned platform to change common people to active.
The method of communication of reading campaign has led to high achievement for effectiveness of communication. The campaign,`‘The Road of a book created, Knowledge Map 2011’, showed a prominent result in PR effect measurement models ‘output’, ‘outgrowth’ and ‘outcome’. In terms of ‘output’, 23 news are released during the event period 4 months. In terms of ‘outgrowth’, 57,239 people put their email address to participate for Internet poll which means built up interactive communication. Besides this, many participant leaved comment ‘join it’ and replied messages. In terms of ‘outcome’, target audience accomplishes the entire knowledge voyage by oneself; it has implemented a differentiated view through the process of sharing and communicating the knowledge against former campaigns.