虚拟即现实——“元宇宙”批判

Virtuality is Reality:Critique of Metaverse

到目前为止,新闻传播学界对元宇宙的认识基本建立在现实世界和虚拟世界二分的基础上。从经验主义和现象学视角看,并不存在一个纯客观世界,我们的世界是一个纯粹经验的和普遍联系的世界,人与世界的联系以及人的传播活动离不开身体这个“元媒介”。人—世界关系的相关性是元宇宙的存在论基础。人类从来都是生活在自己建构的“元宇宙”中,并不断建构新的宇宙,元宇宙也仅是人类媒介史、传播史上的一个发展阶段,是建立在数字技术背景基础上的新的世界图形。

The understanding of metaverse in the journalism and communication area so far has primarily been resting upon the binary opposition of the real world and the virtual world.From the perspective of empiricism and phenomenology,however,there isn't a purely objective world.The world is a purely empirical and universally connected one.The connections between humans and the world as well as humans'communication activities cannot be separated from the"metamedia"of body.The connectedness of human-world relationships is even the ontological basis of metaverse.Humans have always been living in the"metaverse"constructed by their own and continue to construct new universes.Metaverse is only a stage of the development of media and communication history.It is a new world picture based on and a phenomenological change via digital technology.