赛博空间概念的三个基本要素及其与现实的关系

The Three Fundamental Elements of Cyberspace and Its Relation with Reality

"赛博空间"是目前广泛运用于各种新媒介研究中的概念,但其含义一直较为模糊。根据信息传播的三个特点——实时互动性、全息性、超时空性,并从一种"软件"的角度来定义赛博空间,赛博空间的本质在于这三种信息传播要素前所未有的结合,这种结合使得赛博空间成为第一种拥有构建另一种"现实"能力的人造媒介。虽然目前依然需要借模仿现实来进行自我内容构建,因此时常被等同于"虚拟现实",但赛博空间无疑具有更多的自身特质和独立性。作为一种"自然媒介"的现实本身,也受到越来越多的赛博空间的影响。两者之间不断增强的双向渗透,将导致彼此之间的区别和界线逐渐模糊,对何为"现实"的认识也将逐渐发生革命性的转变。

Cyberspace is a widely used concept in many researches involving new media.However its own meaning has always been vague since its emergence.This article presents a new method by inducing a'software'perspective,in which the Cyberspace is defined by three key features of the information interaction:real time interaction,richness and super temporality and spatiality.Only the media with these three features are part of the Cyberspace,while an absence of any of the three would make it non-Cyberspace.The essence of Cyberspace is the unprecedented conjunction of the three interactive features.Based on this notion,the paper also argues that'Virtual reality'is not a necessary element for cyberspace,but only an important feature of cyberspace nowadays(with contradiction to current popular thoughts).Cyberspace would obtain more specific features of its own and more independence in the future.While the real world,as a'Natural media',would be increasingly influenced by the cyberspace.The ever growing mutual infiltration of the two worlds would make their border vaguer.