直播的政治学:“交流闭环”与“社会的气泡化”

Politics of Live Streaming: “The Closed Loop of Communication” and the Formation of “Social Bubbles”

本文从文化政治的角度分析网络直播现象,试图提出"交流闭环"的概念来分析直播这一亚文化形式所依靠的话语结构和消费方式。在网络直播这里,公共性/私人性、政治性/非政治性、严肃/不严肃、虚拟/真实等区分越来越模糊,直至不复存在——不仅是在认识论的意义上不存在,而且是在生活方式的意义上,乃至政治本体论的意义上不复存在。这种连带关系的形成,使得参与者的"社会性"被牢固地确定在其既有的生活现状之上,空洞的交流并没有填补公共性的缺失,而是通过取消公共性/私人性的区分,吊诡地变成了公共性本身。

Through analyzing the subcultural phenomenon of "online live shows," the essay, with the concept of "communicational closed-loop," attempts to examine the discursive structure and the mode of consumption on which "live shows" depend. For "live shows," the distinctions of the public/the private, the political/the nonpolitical, seriousness/nonseriousness, the virtual/the real have become increasingly ambiguous, and even nonexistent—not only in terms of epistemology, but in terms of way of life and political ontology. The particular relation thereby resulted makes the "sociality" of the participant tied closely to the existing status quo, where the empty communication does not fill up the lack of publicity, but paradoxically becomes publicity per se through dissolving the distinction between the public and the private.