信息时代“数字媒体”的学科构建

"数字媒体"是近十年来迅猛发展的一个新兴领域,它的跨学科特征以及它与信息技术和文化产业的亲缘关系,使其成为业界和高校追逐的热点。但我国学界对"数字媒体"的学科建设研究尚显欠缺,创意实践的火热与理论研究的冷清形成强烈反差。为了让这个新兴学科为产业发展带来繁荣,为文化建设带来持久的文化力和生产力,既要站在科学的立场上准确把握"数字媒体"的学科走向,对其学科概念、基本范畴、研究对象、学科框架等进行深入探讨;又要在艺术学和计算机科学的基础上,借鉴哲学、文化学、经济学、教育学等多学科的研究方法,构建"数字媒体"的学科体系;还要正确处理业界与学界关注的热点问题,就"数字媒体"的内容与形式等一系列问题进行深入研究。

Construction of Digital Media as an Academic Discipline in the Information Age

"Digital Media" is a fast-developing arena in the past decade.Its interdisciplinary nature and its close affinity with information science and cultural industries have attracted the attention of both the academia and the private sector.However,the academia so far has not accorded digital media disciplinary status,giving rise to the stark contrast between insufficient theorizing attempts by researchers and spectacular growth in its creative use by artists and relevant professionals.To stimulate further prosperity in the private sector spurred by its use and provide for enduring power and productivity to cultural production,we need to study its future trends and establish it as a discipline,define its concepts,basic categories,research objects,and determine its disciplinary framework.In constructing its disciplinary system,we need to elaborate on its base in art and computer science,and absorb relevant elements from other disciplines such as economics,education,philosophy,cultural studies.We need also deal with the current concerns of the private as well as the academic sectors,and in our research cover in depth the form and content of "digital media."