计时器与背景板:媒介多任务在场的影响研究

Chronoscope and Backplane: How Media Technology Shape Our Multitasking Presence

本文探讨了技术对于场景的分割,以及媒介多任务在场对于人们情绪的影响。行为具有绵延性,随着媒介对日常生活的深度渗透,媒介多任务在场已逐渐成为生活中非常典型而普遍的行为。对于技术与时间问题的结合,很多学者也都提出了担忧,比如媒介多任务所带来的紧张感、时空分割所带来的孤独感等。研究基于受众媒介接触调研的数据发现,媒介多任务在场可以显著预测情绪的变化,伴随地点与伴随成员状态是产生影响的两个重要因素:一方面,在人们主动选择线上线下伴随行为时,伴随的主要是正面情绪;另一方面,人们在上网同时处理两个或以上的线上多任务行为时,才会更多地产生焦虑等负面情绪,此外,媒介的延伸所带来的"在场",弥补了快节奏状态下的孤独感,给予我们一种"交流与归属的感觉",带来一种"连接"的意义赋予。然而这并不代表抹除了这促发问题的可能性以及我们担忧的必要性。媒介技术不仅仅是简单的手段,而是变成了一种环境和生活方式。如何看待技术工具的这种多面性,如何作为伟大的人来进行主体的反击,是我们需要继续思索的问题。

This paper explores the impact of technology on situations segmentation and media multitasking on people’s emotions. With the deep penetration of media into daily life, multitasking presence has gradually become our typical and common behaviors. For the superimposition of media technology and time issue, scholars have already raised concerns, such as the tension caused by multitasking, the loneliness by spatiotemporal segmentation and so on. Based on the data of audience media exposure survey, it is found that media multitasking presence is directly related to emotions. Accompanying location and status of accompanying members are two important monitoring factors;on the one hand, in the context of people’s active choice of media for online activities and meanwhile off-line activities, the main accompanying emotions are positive emotions;on the other hand, more negative emotions such as anxiety will arise when people deal with two or more online behaviors at the same time. Furthermore, multitasking presence brought by the extension of the media technology makes up for the loneliness under the fast-paced development, giving us a sense of 'communion and belonging' and bringing us a sense of 'connected'. However, this does not mean to erase the possibility of provoking the problem which need for us to worry about. Not only media technology is a sort of simple means, but also a chronoscope, backplane or lifestyle. How to look on the multifaceted nature of media technology and how to fight back as a great human is the issue we need to continue to speculate.