媒介融合概念的解析与层次

Definition and Implications of Media Convergence

媒介融合已成为学术热点,但学界对于什么是媒介融合、媒介融合的层次划分等基本问题依然缺乏足够讨论。通过梳理国内外学界有关媒介融合的研究文献发现,虽然融合一词是这一概念的核心,但媒介融合概念的界定却在很大程度上取决于媒介一词,并且至少可以从技术、经济、组织以及制度四个维度来分析和理解其内涵和层次;同时,媒介融合不仅是一个涉及技术、经济、组织以及制度等多个构面和层次的概念,而且是人类社会发展进程中一个全新"技术-经济范式"的内核。

Media convergence has become a very hot subject, but questions about what the media convergence is and how many levels the concept contains have not been discussed adequately yet. By sorting extensive litera- tures on this subject at home and abroad, it is found out that although ＂convergence＂ is the key word, the defi- nition of media convergence depends more on the concept of ＂media＂, and its definition and levels contained can be analyzed from four dimensions as technology, economy, organization and institution. What＇ s more, media convergence is not only a concept with multi-level implications, but the new core of an emerging technolo- gy-economy paradigm in the development of the society.