“时间完胜空间”?——对“用时间消灭空间”信条的新闻传播学再思

"Time Defeats Space"?——Rethinking the Creed That"Space Is Eliminated by Time"from the Perspective of Journalism

马克思"用时间消灭空间"的经济学命题在移植到传播学理论时,逐步延展为一则"时间完胜空间"的信条。该信条虽具有强大的理论解释力,但随着社会理论研究的空间转向,即时传播技术对传播时空的重塑,需要适时地对此信条展开再思。从马克思"用时间消灭空间"经济命题中空间的永不退场、新闻传播学科对时间与空间维度的不同偏好,以及即时传播技术带来的时空重塑三个层面再思,发现该信条内含的固化传播时间维度、忽视传播空间维度的价值取向,以此恢复空间的主体地位,拓展传播学研究的空间维度,推动传播研究方式的转型。

Marx’s economic proposition that"space is eliminated by time"gradually stretches and becomes a creed that"time defeats space"when it is transplanted to domestic communication studies.Although this creed has a strong theoretical explanatory power,it needs to rethink in a timely manner as the space of social theory research shifts with the remodeling of communication time and space by the real-time communication technology.Rethinking economic proposition’s no-exit space,the different preference between Marx’s proposition and the discipline of journalism and communications,and the remodeling of space and time brought by instant communication technology reveal that the Marx creed values the solidified communication time dimension and ignores the communication space dimension.Thus,Restoring the dominant position of space helps to expand the space dimension of communication studies and promote the transformation of communication research.