“子弹”为什么还在飞?——网络文化生产的“非法兴起”

Why"Bullets"Still Flying?-The"llegal Rise"of Online Cultural Production

上世纪末发端于美国、随后席卷全球的互联网革命,是一场异常复杂的技术革命,它改变了我们,也改造了我们身处的制度,后者涉及经济、政治、文化多个层面。在经济上,互联网催生的网络信息经济迅速崛起与扩张。短短三十年,互联网成为复兴去中心化和非市场化生产的催化剂。

Distinguishing itself from traditional industrialcultural production,internet cultural production,as exemplified by"Rang Xue"derivative works,exhibits two key characteristics:firstly,peer production;and secondly,collective political and cultural expression.While its rise in China can be ostensibly attributed to the democratization of internet technologies,a deeper underlying reason lies in the weak protection status of copyright law.This paradoxical situation has inadvertently facilitated the flourishing of internet cultural production,enabling"Rang Xue"derivative works that heavily rely on existing works to not only become possible but also,in fact,emerge as an alternative vanguard of collective political and cultural expression.