插件:理解媒介的一个新基点——基于文化技艺理论视角的分析

Plug-in:A New Anchor for Understanding Media

本文聚焦插件在计算平台与社会文化交织背景下的崛起,特别是其作为ChatGPT、文心一言等大模型的扩展工具所发生的角色转换。通过结合计算机的历史,从软件研究和文化技艺理论视角分析插件,揭示它如何成为技术革新和社会文化转变的参考系统,并且构成二者交接转化的本体节点和本体操作。在人人皆有望成为开发者的时代,以“原媒介”更新“元媒介”,旨在回归和重构元媒介与计算机的开放性、扩展性和实验性等多重属性之间的关联,探询插件开发作为微观实践调节人类生活世界的可操作性。将插件作为媒介研究新的关键词,为我们理解媒介与社会文化之间的互动和进行媒介实践提供了新基点和新视角。

This paper examines the rise of plugins within the context of interconnected computational platforms and socio-cultural landscapes,focusing particularly on their evolving role as extension tools for large language models such as ChatGPT and WenXin YiYan.By integrating historical perspectives on computing,this analysis approaches plugins through the lenses of software studies and cultural techniques theory.It explores how plugins have emerged as a referential system for both technological innovation and socio-cultural transformation,serving as ontological nodes at the intersection of these domains.In an era where the potential for anyone to become a developer is increasingly feasible,the transition from"proto-media"to"meta-media"provides an opportunity to revisit and redefine the relationship between attributes such as openness,extensibility,and experimentalism in both meta-media and computing.This study delves into plugin development as a micro-practice,assessing its functionality in mediating human experiences.By positioning plugins as a key term in media studies,this paper offers a fresh perspective on the interplay between media and socio-cultural systems,opening new avenues for media practices and theoretical engagement.