Adorno’s Cultural Industry Theory in the Environment of Internet Development

Abstract

Traditional cultural industry theory is confined to a specific historical context, and the theoretical level of simple denial and criticism of cultural industry phenomena has lost its historical significance. The development of the cultural industry is the inevitable result of the development of the market economy. It enables people to recover from their values in the spirit of humanism. This article was aimed at studying and evaluating Adorno’s cultural industry theory based on the development environment of the Internet and using literature review techniques to obtain, collect, and summarize research related to Adorno’s cultural industry and its subject critical theory, analyze, summarize, and classify their views and opinions, as well as data on gender significance and limitations, and compare and extract. In the research stage of the thesis, firstly, the background and conditions of Adorno’s critical theory of cultural industry were systematically investigated with a complete historical and logical method. Then, it combines theory with practice and uses Adorno’s critical theory of contemporary Chinese cultural industry to find problems and defects. Finally, based on the difference between Adorno’s living environment and the current environment, it is logical to compare Adorno’s theory with comparative research methods in modern China, but it needs to be improved and perfected.