媒介机器崛起:机器谱系与技术网络

The Rise of the Media Machine:Machine Genealogy and Technology Networks

随着机械印刷术的推广,媒介机器悄然登上历史舞台。电子媒介的显形与推广则进一步让媒介机器本身具备了创造媒介化场域的能力,从而型构了现代性的社会世界。这一切引发了包括法兰克福学派和媒介环境学派的高度重视,他们从机器研究的谱系中汲取营养,从而开创了媒介机器研究的谱系。然而,随着计算机、阿帕网等一系列媒介机器的涌现,特别是生成式人工智能具有开放域多轮对话能力之后,媒介机器不仅赋魂“硬”基础设施,而且也通过作为人的语言、知识和计算能力的“软”基础设施使社会实现了万物互联,这无疑预示着媒介机器的彻底崛起,也启发了当代媒介机器研究的想象力。

With the popularization of mechanical printing,media machines have quietly stepped onto the stage of history.The emergence and promotion of digital media have further endowed media machines with the capability to create a mediated field,thereby contouring the modern social landscape.This transformation garnered significant attention from the Frankfurt School and the Media Environment School,who,drawing inspiration from the genealogy of machine research,established the genealogical framework for media machine research.However,with the advent of a series of media machines such as computers and ARPANETS,and notably,the emergence of generative AI capable of engaging in open-domain,multi-round dialogues,media machines not only give a soul to the hard infrastructure,but also enable the society to realize the interconnection of all things through the soft infrastructure of human language,knowledge and computing power,which undoubtedly indicates the complete rise of media machines and ignites the imagination of contemporary researchers on media machine.