论数字经济时代数据的文化意义

On the Cultural Significance of Data in the Digital Economy Era

数据作为事实记录、学科构成基础以及技术是为人熟知的。在社会经济发展过程中,数据成为了生产要素之一,其重要性不断强化,但它作为信息、技术和符号所暗含的文化意义却常常被忽视。在日常生活中,数据在深入人们衣食住行方方面面的同时,也萌生了一些值得关注的文化现象——数据不是单纯地记录现象、整理文本或提供决策依据的参考量,它常常蕴含抽象的文化符号或具体的文化意义,并且数据的流动性使其符号和文化意义进一步扩散。走出技术范畴的数据呈现了文化转向的态势,打破了文化资本建立的社会区隔,改变文化资本的积累方式,引领世界文化发展的新方向。数据的文化意义由此可见一斑,但是从文化的角度来看,数据是文化发展的载体,文化决定了数据生产及再生产的内容,数据的发展始终不会超越文化,因为文化的实质始终是人的思维和行动方式的总和,总能与新鲜事象撞出时代的火花。

cultural symbols or specific cultural significance,and the fluidity of data further spreads its symbols and cultural significance.The data that goes out of the technical category presents a trend of cultural transformation,breaking the social barriers established by cultural capital,changing the way cultural capital is accumulated,and leading a new direction in the development of world culture.The cultural significance of data can be seen from this,but from a cultural perspective,data is the carrier of cultural development,and culture determines the content of data production and reproduction.The development of data will never surpass culture,because the essence of culture is always the sum of human thinking and action methods,and it can always collide with new events to spark the times.