数字阅读基础设施:元概念、方法论与意义场

The Digital Reading Infrastructure:Meta-Concept,Methodology and Fields of Meaning

作为当代阅读活动的外部环境与底层结构,数字阅读基础设施不仅涵盖互联网硬件设备、设施与物理环境,还包括数字平台的数据、程序及规范体系,且指向诸多阅读行动者间的互动互构关系。文章以基础设施倒置的研究方法,揭示出数字媒介平台并非被动、中立且不可见的实践背景,其蕴藏的能动性深刻影响着阅读意义的生成模式、象征机制与时空结构,重塑了作者、读者、文本、介质等要素之间的构序法则。同时,作为数字阅读基础设施的意义冗余,其潜在的信息超载、过度联结、“信息茧房”等负面效应,将给人类知识生产的独立性与创新性带来巨大风险。如何克服数字阅读的“熵增”现象,开启知识创新的“负熵”进程,是阅读研究必须回应的时代之问。

As an external environment and underlying structure for contemporary reading activities,digital reading infrastructure not only covers the Internet hardware equipment,facilities and physical environment,but also includes the data,programs and normative system of digital platforms,and connects with the interactive and inter-constructive relationship among the reading actors as well.Through the research method of"infrastructure inversion",this paper finds that the digital media platform is not a passive,neutral and invisible practice background,but its embedded agency profoundly influences the generation mode,symbolic mechanism and spatial-temporal structure of reading meanings,and reshapes the law of the ranking according to the proper order among the author,readers,text,media and other elements.At the same time,as the meaning of digital reading infrastructure"redundancy",its potential information overload,excessive linkage,information cocoon and other negative effects will bring great risks to the independence and innovation of human knowledge production.How to overcome the"entropy increase"phenomenon of digital reading and start the"negative entropy"process of knowledge innovation have become the questions essential in our times and reading researches must find the answer.