"第二媒介时代"文化变迁的脉路

媒介对文化具有极大的影响力和建构力。当文化生产和传播的主导性媒介更易为电子媒介之后,媒介所产生的文化冲击力更是空前强大。从经验生活层面看,电子媒介构成了当代人最基本的呼吸材料和生存氛围,衣食住行、工作休闲等社会生活各领域都谦恭地接受了媒介的改造,日常生活秩序越来越成为一种经由电子传播和中介的新秩序。从社会形态角度看,电子媒介促成了生产社会向消费社会的社会转型。从文化属性角度而言,传统基于印刷媒介的文化形态慢慢转向一种新的依赖于电子媒介的文化形态,文化由此走向了后现代的发展历程。在这种情况下,各种文化观念,如真实观、伦理观、宗教观、审美观等与传统观念之间出现了难以想像的巨大裂痕。

On the Path of cultural vicissitude in the second media age

Media,as a constructive force of culture,has an incomparable influence on the latter. Ever since electronic media has been playing a leading role,its impact on culture has become unprecedentedly enormous. From the respective of real life,electronic media constitutes the most essential material and surrounding of human survival;from the angle of social formation,it leads to the transition from production society to consumption society. Thereby,the traditional printing-based cultural formation is gradually ch...