中国网络公共领域:功能、异化与规制

Internet Public Sphere in China: Function,Alienation and Regulation

传统公共领域理论不适合描述以互联网为主要媒介的当代中国公共领域。网络公共领域的运作超出政治范畴,冲击着社会各领域的既有规则和秩序,承担着促进诸社会子系统自我反思的功能,全面推动了社会结构的转型升级。网络公共领域的异化并非源于外部权力干预,而是源于网络企业主导的架构设计,后者塑造了网络公众的行为模式。当前的网络规制聚焦行为而非架构,无视线上/线下空间的分化,面临合理性和合法性双重困境。应当探索公私合作的新型规制模式,避免侵犯公众在Web 2.0环境下得以实际行使的基本权利。

The traditional theories of public sphere are not suitable for describi sphere in China where the ＇Internet functions as the main communication medium. ng the contemporary public Transcending the political sphere, the Internet public sphere impacts the existing rules and orders of the various areas of society, bearing the function of promoting the self-reflection of various social sub-systems, which then advances the all-over transformation and upgrading of the social structure. The alienation of the Interuet public sphere was not caused by the intervention of outside power, but has rooted in the particular architecture of the Internet designed by the internet enterprises which in turn has been shaping the behavioral pattern of the public in the Internet. The cur- rent regulation of Interuet focuses, however, on the behaviors rather than the architecture of the Internet, igno- ring the differentiation between the online and offline public sphere, so that it necessarily faces the double di- lemma of rationality and legitimacy. The new mode regarding the public-private co-regulation shall be explored to avoid the actually enjoyed fundamental rights of the public being infringed in the circumstance of web 2.0.