技术“遮蔽”的空间:媒介环境学派“空间观”初探

The Space Shaded by Technology:A Preliminary Study of the“Spatial View”of the Media Ecology

在社会理论与传播研究"空间转向"的背景下,本研究梳理和分析伊尼斯、麦克卢汉、梅罗维茨及莱文森媒介理论中的空间话语,并对媒介环境学派的空间观加以阐释:媒介环境学派不仅存在一个空间话语的表达"传统",而且呈现出由物理空间向感觉空间再向物理空间的螺旋式回归的态势;然而,由于学派对媒介技术的强调,空间成为服务其媒介技术与社会发展研究的手段,虽有一定的理论生成力,但缺少应有的主体性,成为由技术遮蔽的空间。

In the context of the"spatial turn"of social theory and communication studies,this paper sorts out and analyzes the spatial discourse in the media theory of Innis,Mc Luhan,Merowitz and Levinson;interprets the spatial view of the media ecology:The media ecology has a"tradition"of spatial discourse,and also presents a spiral return from physical space to sensory space to physical space;however,due to the media ecology’s emphasis on media technology,space becomes a service to its media technology and the methods of social development research,which lack the subjectivity that they should have,although there has a certain theoretical generating force,it becomes a space hidden by technology.