数字叙事:想象世界的方式

Digital Narrative:A Way of Imagining the World

人类通过叙事建构世界意义。当前,在数字技术带来的社会情境中,数字叙事正不断生成并成为建构数字社会的文化技术。作为一种媒介实践方式,数字叙事通过对数字技术的使用形成离散与聚合、相遇与互动、选择与控制等多重耦合的机制。这样的叙事机制指向碎片化与整体性的交织,人与技术的相融共生,自我与他人的共同创造,主体之间的持续互动,以及选择与控制的双向循环等特征。数字叙事由此提供了一种想象世界的新方式,喻示着在充满不确定性、不断生成、边界消融的世界,以人类为中心的世界观正在破碎,而代之以另一种与一切他者保持开放平衡关系、减少熵增的努力。

Digital narrative occurs in the social context brought about by digital technology and becomes a cultural technology that constructs digital society.As a form of media practice,digital narrative forms a mechanism of multiple coupling relationships such as dispersion and aggregation,encounter and interaction,selection and control through the use of digital technology.This narrative mechanism implies the interweaving of fragmentation and wholeness,the integration and symbiosis of people and technology,the co-creation of self and others,as well as the continuous interaction between subjects and the two-way cycle of selection and control.Digital narrative thus provides a new way of imagining the world,indicating that in a world full of uncertainty,constant generation,and dissolving boundaries,the anthropocentric worldview is fragmenting and being replaced by efforts to maintain an open balance with all others and to reduce entropy increase.