公共哲学与现代媒体

Public Philosophy and Modern Media

现代社会最根本的特征是其公共性,而最充分体现公共性三大特质的典型形式或社会群体正是现代公共媒体,它是现代社会最强大最让人感到恐惧的力量。现代媒体在现代社会的地位和价值,可以作积极和消极两个方面的理解。从积极的方面来说,现代媒体是政治帝国的制约力量,是市场经济生活中公正的判官,对现代化的普及承担着重要的传播使命,使公共社会的信息共享有可能发挥最高的资源效益。从消极方面来理解,公共媒体是对私人生活空间的挤压,并且使文化公共化、世俗化和平庸化。所以,从公共哲学的视野来审视,现代媒体不仅要有公正的旁观和分享,还需要一种宽容的姿态;不仅要有恰当的干预意识和积极的监督姿态,还要培养个性化因而越具有公共性的东西。现代社会是公共哲学和公共媒体实现联姻的社会,这种结合有利于二者的自强和发展。

Publicity, the most essential characteristic of modem society, has three traits, as to which the modem media embodies most, and is the strongest and most terrified power in modem society. The status and value of modem media in modem society could be understood in active and passive. Actively speaking, the modem media is the restricting power to political empire and the just judge in marketing economic lives, shoulders the important promulgating mission of popularizing modernization, urges the resource sharing to bring the biggest resouree benefits into play. Passively speaking, the modem media squeezes the space of personal lives, makes cuhure public and worldly and bourgeois. So surveyed from the angle of public philosophy, the modem media should not only has an attitude to look on and share in justice, hut an attitude of catholicity ; riot only has an attitude of right intervening consciousness and active intendance, hut an attitude to cultivate things more individual more public. Tile modem society is a unity between public pbilosophy and public media, which is beueficial to both striving to become strong and developed.