元宇宙行动者如何“破茧成蝶”?--兼论以太“信息茧房”的机理与超越

How Can Actors in Metaverse"Break out of Their Cocoons":the Mechanism and Break of Ether"Information Cocoon"

“元宇宙”是一个“未来—将来”的以太空间,在现有的技术和经济水平下,“元宇宙”尚不能被视为一个独立于现实世界的存在空间,但是由于它作为人将要存在于其中的虚拟空间也必须获得治理。普世经验认为“元宇宙”和“互联网”具有密切的关联,二者作为虚拟世界寄托人在现实世界之外的诸多可能性,“互联网”看似开放、自由、包容,但“同质化信息反复传播”导致的“回音室效应”可能衍生出主张封闭、保守、排他的“信息茧房”,后者有可能进一步导致“群体极化”这一极端现象。由于“元宇宙”体验感、交互感更强,在“技术集合放大作用”“深度沉浸”“虚拟在场”等新型要素的催化下,“信息茧房”可能更加迅速地出现并巩固起来,形成较为困难的治理对象。在“元宇宙”这一虚拟世界之中,技术带来的沉浸体验可能让人偏安于虚拟的茧房之中而无视现实的劳动生产,也有可能因为资本筹划、文化渗透等因素形成在意识形态方面极端错误的虚在群体,甚至在元宇宙信息茧房“野蛮生长”的情况下不同的信息茧房可能会形成自身的“意识形态”并且威胁主流意识形态的安全。对此,需要针对元宇宙技术、元宇宙资本话术进行治理,同时也要为元宇宙空间作出预先的立法规制。

The"metaverse"is a"future-to-future"ether space.Under the existing technical and economic level,the"metaverse"cannot be regarded as an independent existence space from the real world,but it must also be governed as a virtual space in which people will exist.The universal experience holds that the"metaverse"and the"Internet"are closely related.The two are many possibilities outside the real world as the hosts of the virtual world.The"Internet"seems to be open,free and inclusive,but the"echo chamber effect"caused by the"repeated dissemination of homogeneous information"may lead to a closed,conservative and exclusive"information cocoon",which may further lead to the extreme phenomenon of"group polarization".Due to the stronger sense of experience and interaction in the"metaverse",under the catalysis of new elements such as"technology set amplification","deep immersion"and"virtual presence","information cocoon"may appear and consolidate more quickly,forming a more difficult governance object.In the virtual world of"metaverse",the immersive experience brought by technology may make people settle in the virtual cocoon house and ignore the actual labor production.It is also possible that because of capital planning,cultural infiltration and other factors,the virtual group with extreme errors in ideology may be formed.Even in the case of"barbaric growth"of the metaverse information cocoon house,different information cocoon houses may form their own"ideology"and threaten the security of the mainstream ideology.In this regard,it is necessary to govern the metaverse technology and the metaverse capital discourse,and at the same time to make a pre-legislative regulation for the metaverse space.