阅读《在一起孤独》:网络社交自我的不确定性与可能性

Reading Alone Together:Uncertainty and Possibility of Network Social Self

基于Goodreads和Amazon(American version)两个平台的读者阅读《在一起孤独》的文本分析,本文发现,从自我出发的阅读者解构了特克尔的网络技术影响自我的单向逻辑,展现出"自我"与技术之间互动的、不确定性的关系,这种关系所构成的"网络社交的自我"不同于单一地由网络技术所形塑的"连线但孤独的自我",充满了不确定性。网络社交自我的不确定性表现为孤独与独处的敏感性,可转换性、积极与消极的双向失控以及自我的非完整性。在两个平台的阅读空间里呈现的自我,既有或明或暗的边界,又在网络时空中交织,表现出网络社会的不同侧面,构成一种折叠的景观。网络技术使各种自我从对话转向单纯的连接,习惯于通过新的连接文化和社交机器人相互连接,迷恋网络空间里的亲密交流。而一旦自我感受到孤独,觉察失去面对面的真实交流,就意味着觉醒的自我恢复了反思性,网络社交自我就有开放的可能性。

Based on the text analysis of Alone Together by readers of Goodreads and Amazon(American version), this paper finds that the self-starting readers deconstruct Turkle’s one-way logic of network influencing self, and shows the interactive and uncertain relationship between 'self' and technology. The 'network social self' formed by this relationship is different from the 'connected but lonely self' shaped by network only, is full of uncertainty. The uncertainty of network social self is manifested as the sensitivity and convertibility of loneliness and solitude, double-sided out of control of positive and negative, and non-integrity self. The self presented in the reading space of the two platforms not only has clear or blurred boundaries, but also overlaps in the spacetime of network, showing different sides of the network society and forming a folded spectacle. Network technology makes all kinds of self translate communication to one-way connection, accustom to connecting with each other through new connected culture and social robots, and addicted to intimate communication online. Once self feels loneliness and perceives the loss of face-to-face communication, it means that the awakened self regains its reflection, the online social self has the possibility of opening.