Global Journal of Human Social Science, C: Sociology and Culture, Volume 23 Issue 4

© 2023. Longfei Li & Xiangyu Hai. This research/review article is distributed under the terms of the Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). You must give appropriate credit to authors and reference this article if parts of the article are reproduced in any manner. Applicable licensing terms are at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/ 4.0/. Towards a Communicative City: Applying a New Framework for Understanding Communication and City By Longfei Li & Xiangyu Hai Shanghai Jiao Tong University Introduction- Since the Industrial Revolution, with the productivity change brought by technology and modern mass media, the distance between time and space has been shortened and the imagined "urban community" has been brought about. Newspapers, television and other mass media can not only have information functions, but also unite and connect people into a whole through the communication network, thus promoting the integration of urban communities. However, with the development of the internet and the explosive growth of urban population, the rise of individualism has made the connection of traditional urban society declared unorganized, and the traditional mass media has also lost its unified integration ability (Bruhn, 2011:8). The city has fallen into an unprecedented communication crisis, and the construction of a coordinated and unified relationship between different individuals has become an urgent problem to be solved. In other words, the global expansion of the modernization process has led to the fragmentation of society, and people find themselves in a modern world that has lost contact with the roots of communicability. GJHSS-C Classification: LCC HM756-781 TowardsaCommunicativeCityApplyingaNewFrameworkforUnderstandingCommunicationandCity Global Journal of HUMAN-SOCIAL SCIENCE: C Sociology & Culture Volume 23 Issue 4 Version 1.0 Year 2023 Type: Double Blind Peer Reviewed International Research Journal Publisher: Global Journals Online ISSN: 2249-460x & Print ISSN: 0975-587X Strictly as per the compliance and regulations of: