Cmc and the Connection between Virtual Utopias and Actual Realities

IF 1.7 3区 文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION Javnost-The Public Pub Date : 1999-01-01 DOI:10.1080/13183222.1999.11008724
C. Richards
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AbstractPeople are often ambivalent about the potential future roles of new technologies (and the Internet specifically) and their possible effects on human society. There has been a tendency for polarisation between attitudes or perceptions of naive enthusiasm and cynical resistance towards the use of computers and digital networks, and for such related concepts as “the information superhighway,” “cyberspace” and “virtual communities.” The projection of such ambivalent perceptions into naively utopian (or even ironically dystopian) images and narratives might be seen as the latest and uniquely global permutation of a basic function of human culture —that is, to imagine “a better future” or represent “an ideal past.” This article considers the extent to which the kinds of virtual utopias made possible by computer-mediated communication are “connected” to the actual individual and social realities of human participants. In other words, should a distinction be made between the use of virtual utopias (and ut...
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Cmc与虚拟乌托邦与现实的联系
摘要对于新技术(尤其是互联网)在未来可能扮演的角色以及它们对人类社会可能产生的影响,人们往往持矛盾的态度。对于使用计算机和数字网络,以及诸如“信息高速公路”、“网络空间”和“虚拟社区”等相关概念,人们的态度或看法出现了一种两极分化的趋势。将这种矛盾的认知投射到天真的乌托邦(甚至具有讽刺意味的反乌托邦)图像和叙事中,可能被视为人类文化基本功能的最新和独特的全球排列-即想象“更美好的未来”或代表“理想的过去”。这篇文章考虑了在多大程度上,通过计算机媒介的交流使各种虚拟乌托邦成为可能,与人类参与者的实际个人和社会现实“联系”在一起。换句话说,是否应该区分虚拟乌托邦(和现实乌托邦)的使用?
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期刊介绍: Javnost - The Public, an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed social and cultural science journal published by the European Institute for Communication and Culture in association with the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, addresses problems of the public sphere on international and interdisciplinary levels. It encourages the development of theory and research, and helps understand differences between cultures. Contributors confront problems of the public, public communication, public opinion, public discourse, publicness, publicity, and public life from a variety of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives.
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