虚实混合:网络空间的社会地理研究

Mixing the virtual and the real:A social geographical study of cyberspace

互联网与移动通信技术的全球化发展极大地扩展了个体对空间和社会资源的接触与占用,网络空间在与现实空间的互动融合中获得地理学维度和社会学维度的解释,概念内涵从技术转向空间、社会和媒介。新技术带来新问题,地理学家讨论了互联网等信息通信技术对个体活动、城市空间和社会发展的影响,然而,网络空间仍然缺乏地理学概念和地理特性的研究,成为网络空间地理学发展的阻碍。论文聚焦于网络空间在社会地理领域的研究,采用文献计量学方法识别不同时期国内外学者在网络空间地理学领域中的研究热点,梳理网络空间发展脉络及其社会空间属性建构过程,并基于虚实混合空间的视角,从行次衰减、媒介空间和虚拟表征等方面总结网络空间的社会地理研究进展,以期更好地理解与研究网络空间中的地理现象和社会问题,推动网络空间地理学发展。

The global development of the Internet and mobile communication technology has greatly expanded individuals'access to and occupation of space and social resources.In the interaction and integration of cyberspace and real space,cyberspace has been interpreted in geographical and sociological dimensions,and the conceptual connotation has shifted from technology to space,society,and media.New technologies create new problems.Geographers have discussed the impact of the Internet and other information technologies on individual activities,urban space,and social development.However,there is still a lack of research on geographical concepts and geographic characteristics in cyberspace,which has become an obstacle to the development of geography of cyberspace.This study focused on the research of cyberspace in the field of social geography,used bibliometric methods to identify the research hotspots of scholars in China and internationally in the field of cyberspace geography in different periods,examined the development of cyberspace and its socialspatial attribute construction process,and based on the perspective of virtual-real hybrid space,summarized the progress of the social geographical research on cyberspace from the aspects of line decay,media space and virtual representation.This review aims to enhance understanding and exploration of geographic phenomena and social issues in cyberspace,and to advance the field of cyberspace geography.