数字交往的档案化及其可见性管理:线上用户的截屏实践分析

Archiving and Visibility-Managing of Digital Interactions: A Case of Online Screenshot Practices

数字媒介技术持续推动了一种即时存档、分享的社会交往文化。本研究以线上用户的截屏实践作为案例,考察以屏为媒的自我呈现方式如何组织人们与群际网络之间的关系。屏幕复制带来了线上痕迹的档案化,视觉文本在被调用过程中,提升着个体在公共空间的可见性,推动私人生活向公共生活开放,从而创造内容流通环境新的互动形式。相较于以视觉消费为导向的媒介研究,以截屏为代表的用户日常实践,提供了观察线上参与文化的另类视角。

This paper adopte Digital media technology promotes the culture of instant archiving and sharing of social interactions. Based on the case of online user’s screenshotting practice, this study examines how screen-mediated self-presentation organizes the relationship between people and public network. The reproduction of screen archives online traces, meanwhile the process of visual texts being invoked enhances individuals’ visibility in public space, and opens private life to the public, which creates new interactive form in online content circulation. Differing from media study focusing on visual consumption, users’ everyday practice represented by screenshots provides an alternative perspective to observe online participation culture in the new era.