微媒技术的时间社会学考察:属性、动因与文明

Observation of Micro-media Technology from the Perspective of Sociology of Time:Attributes,Motivation and Civilization

在虚拟社会,微媒技术正在改变时间的形状、节律与结构。在动因层面,微媒技术旨在向时间的短暂性、节律性和线性等固有属性发起挑战,并迅速生成平滑、节点、符号等虚拟时间消费样态,进而弥补了时间消费的单点线性局限,弥合了时间消费的空间隔阂,消除了时间消费的语言鸿沟;在文明层面,微媒技术俨然成为时间化社会文明建构者,并逐渐在曲线、圈层、休闲、符号等方面产生时间文明新样态,以至于推动与加速社会文明新发展。微媒技术越来越显示出它在社会文明建构中角色性与结构性的强大能量,虚拟时间消费也愈加变得务实、简洁和高效,彰显出虚拟时间在压缩时间成本或提高时间功效上的功能与价值。微媒技术所带来的时间消费悖论是毋庸置疑的,它的社会文明价值需要从技术哲学维度批判性重估,微媒技术的价值逆向或能在向虚拟美学、虚拟符号学和虚拟哲学迈进中逐渐自我克服而日臻完善。

In the virtual world,micro-media technology is changing the form,rhythm and structure of time.At motivation level,micro-media technology aims to challenge the inherent temporal,rhythmic,and linear attributes of time,and quickly make time consumption in the virtual space characterized with smooth experience,nodes,and symbols,making up for the limitation of the single-point linear time consumption,bridging the space gap of time consumption and removing the language barrier of time consumption.At civilization level,micro-media technology has become the builder of time-based social civilization,and brought about new time civilizations in terms of curves,circles,leisure and symbols,so as to promote and accelerate the development of social civilization.Micro-media technology is increasingly demonstrating its powerful role and structural energy in the construction of social civilization,and virtual time consumption is becoming more pragmatic,simple and efficient,which shows the function and value of virtual time in reducing time cost or enhancing time efficiency.There is no doubt that micro-media technology creates a time-consumption paradox.Its value to social civilization needs to be critically re-evaluated from the perspective of philosophy of technology.The value of micro-media technology to social civilization may gradually overdo and perfect itself in the process of advancing towards virtual aesthetics,virtual semiotics and virtual philosophy.