信息方式理论对中国互联网管理的启示

Insight of Information Mode Theory to China's Internet Management

马克·波斯特的信息方式理论是信息技术、尤其是互联网技术的发展对当今社会日益增大的影响及其重要地位的理论反映。波斯特敏锐地捕捉到了电子媒介对于主体建构、社会关系以及政治构型的深远影响和重新塑造,其关于第二媒介时代传播权力结构的变化、电子媒介对主体的构建、虚拟社会对现实社会的强化和替代等观点不仅为当代中国互联网的发展所佐证,而且也为当代中国走出一条与西方不同的中国特色社会主义治网之道提供了一定的借鉴。

The theory of information mode of Mark Post is the theoretical reflection of the increasing influence and important position of information technology, especially the Internet technology in today＇s sociey. Post keenly discovered the far-reaching influence the electronic media has on the construction of subjectivity, social relations and political conformation and how it reshapes them. His views on the change of the structure of communication power in the second media era, the construction of subjectivity by the electronic media and how the virtual society reinforces and replaces the real society are not only supported by the development of the Internet in contemporary China, but also provide some reference for contemporary China to take a path of socialist Internet management with Chinese characteristics that is different from the West.