从空间表征到文化实践:对电子地图的批判性反思

From spatial representation to cultural practice: a critical reflection on the net electronic map

基于网络和移动信息新技术发展起来的电子地图不仅是传统地图的延伸和扩展,还是一种全新的空间表征形式和媒介文本。它典型地体现了后现代时期"时空压缩"这一现象,其中,消费文化在技术的主导下介入这一空间的再现/表征形式,使其具有隐含的生产性:电子地图激发个体的空间想象和消费实践,推动个体的身份认同,并通过权力分配、欲望塑造等途径对个体的主体性的再生产发挥了重要的作用。

Based on the network and mobile information technology development, the electronic map is not only the extension and expansion of traditional map, but also a new spatial representation and media text. It is a typical phenomenon of the post-modern era “Time-space Compression,” in which consumption culturestarts tointervene in theform of spatial representation with the dominance of technology so that it has a productive implication: electronic map stimulates individual space imagination and practice of consumption, promotes the individual identity, plays an important role in reproducing individual subjectivity through power distribution, desire characterization and so on.