元宇宙政党政治:议题、风险与治理

Party Politics under the Metaverse Perspective: Topics, Risks, and the Governance

随着数字智能技术在日常生活领域的不断渗透,作为信息技术革命最新表现的元宇宙已经进入到政党政治领域,正在成为改变政党政治的重要参数。元宇宙能够从多个层面赋能政党政治:虚拟与现实融合提升了意识形态传播效果;实时交互与沉浸增强了民众政治参与水平;多重信息技术叠加推动了社会治理智能化,且元宇宙日益成为影响国家主权安全的新场域。面对这一新型政治力量,已有部分政党开始调试自身策略,充分挖掘元宇宙潜在的政治意蕴,以推动政党政治智能化发展。然而,当组织制度、资源结构、权力关系没有和技术协调演进时,元宇宙的发展也会给意识形态、民主政治、社会治理、主权安全等政党政治要素带来诸多潜在风险。因此,需要引入“顶层设计-制度体系-多方合作-社会伦理”的协同治理框架,通过顶层设计平衡技术逻辑与公共价值,通过制度创新增强元宇宙治理的灵活性与有效性,通过利益相关者联动构建多元协同治理模式,通过强化社会伦理弥补技术治理不足,进而将政党、政府、企业、民众纳入到元宇宙政党政治治理过程中,以实现价值、制度与技术耦合的协同治理体系。

With the increasingly wide application of digital technology in people’s daily life, the Metaverse, which represents the latest development of information technology, has entered the arena of party politics and is playing an important role in changing party politics. The Metaverse can empower party politics in various ways: the fusion of virtual space and real world enhances the effect of ideology dissemination;real-time communication and immersive experience engages more people in politics;the combination of different technologies promotes intelligent social governance and thus the Metaverse has become a new field affecting national sovereignty and security. Given this new political force, some political parties have begun to adjust their strategies and fully tap the political implications of the Metaverse so as to promote the intelligent development of party politics. However, the development of the Metaverse will bring many potential risks to the party in many aspects such as ideology, democratic politics, social governance,and sovereignty security if organizational systems, resource structures, and power relations do not evolve with technology in a coordinated way. Therefore, it is necessary to introduce a coordinated governance framework involving top design,institutional system, multi-dimensional cooperation and social ethics, balance technical logic and public value through top design, make the Metaverse governance more flexible and effective through institutional innovation, build a coordinated governance model through the joint efforts of the stakeholders, take advantage of social ethics to complement technological governance, and then engage political parties, governments, enterprises, and the public into the Metaverse governance to construct a coordinated governance system that integrates value, system and technology.