大数据与当代社会秩序重建——基于历史唯物主义视野

Big Data and Reconstructions of Contemporary Social Order:In View of Historical Materialism

数据是人类对客观世界的认知,人类以数字记录客观事物,通过数学结构探究客观世界的本质及其所蕴含的因果关系。数据在自然界和人类社会中都起到极其重要的作用。现代信息技术的进步,尤其是信息储存技术、信息传播技术以及信息采集技术的进步,产生庞大的数据流,量变引起质变,形成"大数据"。大数据是人类对客观世界整体关系的认知。大数据将改写人类的认知模式、行为方式、社会结构和资源配置的模式,成为一种社会关系的构建力量。人类社会因为大数据而进入新的高速发展阶段。

Data is the product of people’s cognition of the objective world.People record the objective things with numbers and explores the essence of the objective world and its causality through mathematical structures.Data plays an extremely important role in nature and human society.The progress of modern information technology,especially information storage technology,information dissemination technology,and information acquisition technology,produces huge data streams.The quantitative change causes qualitative change and forms'big data'.Big data is people’s understandings of the overall relationship of the objective world.Big data will rewrite human being’s cognitive model,behavior modes,social structures,and resource allocation models,and become a force to build social relations.Human society has entered a new stage of rapid developments because of big data.