The essence of Virtual Society
Is relative to the real society in terms of the name of the virtual society, since the human society entered the era of Internet, "unified" situation will be broken, was the fact that there is only the social reality gradually developed into two areas of real society and virtual society. There is a deep relationship between virtual society and real society. On the one hand, virtual society and real society are unified in the practice of human social development. Of course, this is not a simple reflection of the simple reproduction, but in the real world of all the virtual society in the continuous dissemination / continuous shaping of the dynamic process, so the reflection and extension is a kind of transcendence. On the other hand, the virtual society has developed from the social reality, there is a very different and social reality, especially in people's field of "virtual" and "real", "virtual existence of things" and "reality" is different, and the transcendence of time and space on different.
The virtual society has consistency with the social reality of nature, the virtual society is also a product of people interaction, also must have at the same time is the subject of human existence as well as the people living in a certain space and in the space engaged in various activities, people are also in contact and in relation to each other. Instead of the long list of isolated existence. The difference between the two is mainly reflected in the form of space, communication and interactive activities on the results. The reality of social space in the form of direct, tangible, and virtual social space form is a virtual space construction based on computer technology, although it is the objective existence, but invisible, only with the help of other things reflected the reality of social communication; is face to face, feeling rich, but the virtual community in a digital, symbolic mediated indirect interactions, man - machine or human machine human, and the relationship between people become a virtual relation and contact.
In summary, the essence of the virtual society, virtual cognition, people engaged in a variety of virtual practice in the virtual space and virtual communication activities, and thus the formation of contact and relatively stable in the structure of the human field of human subjects in this field in the virtual, the virtual space based on Internet for field domain to the exchange of information as a link to the virtual, virtual practice for content understanding. Simply speaking, virtual product of all kinds of activities in virtual society is the virtual subject of people, but this is obviously not like virtual "Utopian" or "fantasy" illusion, but a special "reality", a perception of things.
Two, the remarkable characteristics of Virtual Society
Virtual society is different from the unique characteristics of the real society, the author selected the most representative, the most profound impact of several features to be analyzed in detail.
Virtuality and reality
Also known as duality, this is the most basic feature of virtual society. Virtual virtual society in two aspects, on the one hand, the level of technology, the virtual society basing on the information network material technology, digital symbol for each computer node, all perplexing techniques are combined into a three-dimensional space. On the other hand, through the computer technology, the virtual objects can be translated into words, images, symbols and other information, and further the information in the form of a combination of 0 and, thus becoming a bridge of communication between people. It is through these symbolic means, successful person - interactive mode into human - machine or human machine interaction model: people, this pattern on the surface of retired people being the subject of existence, but also hides some features of concern in the realistic society, which is virtual not only the interaction between people, more important is to become a people's existence way.
Reality is another essential feature of virtual society. The "virtual" intention "in fact" and "essence" and "in fact" connotation, it shows a kind of corresponding to the real world, based on Internet technology and equipment are constructed, can bring people to really experience the reality, not fantasy and imagine. It is because of the reality that it connects the relationship between virtual society and real society. We can not put the virtual reality and reality, but they should be unified view, it is the interaction between the two contradictions and tension throughout the development of virtual society.
(two) hyperspace and openness
In the traditional society, space and time are closely linked and inseparable. However, in the virtual society, time has already exceeded the limit of space, and it shows a kind of "virtual" feature that is out of space. People in the interaction process of the virtual society, information transmission at breakneck speed, greatly reduces the time required for human-computer interaction, but also greatly extends the space of interaction between people, even people in the virtual community with the help of a large amount of information, or a user can know the outside world. The super space-time of the virtual society makes people feel more and more the earth is shrinking.
The super time and space of the virtual society are inseparable. On the one hand, the virtual society has broken the boundaries of the traditional region, country and nation, opened up the way for the people to enter the world, so that people have an open, global mentality. Go to the center of the spatial structure of a virtual society is an open, it will not allow any individual or any group to enjoy all kinds of resources, also won't let them hold the reins of the virtual community, thereby eliminating the "center" and "grade", people can be free and equal communication activities. Therefore, openness has become a prerequisite for measuring the frequency of virtual social activities, the greater the openness of the virtual society, the more frequent interaction.
(three) digitalization and symbolization
The network space is called memory symbolic images and information to a great extent, the interactive behavior of people in the virtual community are the symbol as an intermediary, symbolic text and image symbols of all kinds of people is to maintain the interactive relationship between electronic expression, is the behavior of people mediation system in the virtual space. A set of abstract and virtual. Because in the virtual society, it is hard to know the real situation in the real world to each other, such as name, age, appearance, occupation, economic status can be virtualized as symbols or numbers, or even directly hidden. In fact, people in pursuit of network speed, spawned a batch of the one and only "network language", which referred to as the main symbol and abbreviations, numbers and symbols will play to the extreme, such as "U" = "you", "Ur" = "your", "CU" = "see you", "BTW" = "by theway": 0 "means" be startled at that? -? "Said staring blankly at a loss...... network with its openness makes these network language rapidly spreads and in the world has the versatility, in order to reduce the network space and also improve the efficiency of people communication, is the most important to further highlight the digital symbols and virtual social characteristics.
Three, the virtual society has a dual impact on human values
The dual characteristics of the virtual society make it a "double-edged sword", and the influence on the values of human beings also has the characteristics of duality, which has both positive and negative effects. Weal and woe rely on each other, gain and loss, we need specific analysis of specific issues.
(a) the positive influence of virtual society on human values
1 the openness of the virtual society makes the concept of freedom deeply rooted in the hearts of the people
In the virtual society, people's pursuit of freedom is becoming more and more important. The virtual society has provided the unprecedented free space for the human activity, has created the environmental condition for the free spirit of the virtual society. More important is the activity and freedom in virtual society to strengthen ideological and human freedom, so that people get free initiative, the pursuit of freedom, thus further aroused people's sense of freedom, which has an important milestone significance in the history of human free development.
The concept of freedom in the hearts of the people is also reflected in the expression of the aspirations of the public more freedom, more diverse channels. In the virtual society, open and interactive mode of occult authority caused by identity, status, rights and equality, the individual dare to express their true thoughts and feelings, the power of the individual is getting more and more manifest, they express their heart sound through various channels to different views with others the debate spread.
In addition, the opening of the virtual society has no national boundaries, no central position, more conducive to the development of the concept of freedom. In addition, virtual society conceals the identity, occupation, economic condition and other factors in the real society, so that the concept of equality is easier to be realized in the virtual society.
2 the human nature of the virtual society and the characteristics of free and open make people's personality, the main body consciousness
Virtual society provides more and more opportunities for the realization of the overall development of the subject with the help of the developed network information technology. Interactive mode of low cost, high speed, virtual society open, offers a variety of entertainment, education, online video, reading books for people shopping, to provide a display platform for the development of personalized highlight. In the realistic society, virtual society Super Space and openness is played down the bondage and suppress the role of publicity, more conducive to people's personality.
With the development of human personality, it is the enhancement of human subject consciousness. In the virtual society, people's consciousness of independence and autonomy are increasingly prominent in people's values. The virtual society makes the individual gradually realize that it is an independent and relatively complete subject, and realizes that the relationship between itself and the whole can not only be subject and object, but also can be the main body.
In addition, people's concept of law, justice, the way of thinking, the national concept, the global vision, the concept of scientific and technological innovation, and so on to a certain extent has been enhanced and enriched. The positive influence of the virtual society on all aspects of the value of human beings is intertwined with each other, not independent existence, but not in sequence.
(two) the negative impact of virtual society on human values
The value of virtual social view are many negative effects due to excessive positive influence caused flooding, such as individualism, money worship, freedom of thought; egoism vogue; fuzzy value standard; evaluation of moral relativism; faith is not firm, etc.. In order to facilitate the analysis, the author selected the most profound, the most obvious changes in three aspects:
1 led to the excessive expansion of liberalism and individualism
The virtual society is conducive to the spread and the development of freedom of thought, the establishment of the subject to people's consciousness, but without any generalization control consciousness indulge freedom idea and subject, the expansion will inevitably bring about liberalism and individualism. When the free flow of information becomes a reality, the control of speech in the virtual society has become a difficult thing. The virtual society to the center of the features that nobody has the absolute right to speak, but also has the right to speak, if people can not subject to any constraints, do not assume any responsibility for the abuse of freedom, freedom will eventually break through defense into liberalism quagmire. The same expansion of liberal values is individualistic values. The individuality in the virtual society, enhance the consciousness of the people started to pay attention to their needs, interests and development, this is a positive meaning, but in practice has evolved into excessive attention and pursuit of their own interests.
The collective consciousness and virtual society in national consciousness is relatively weak, even if there are some like-minded cooperation groups was based on common ground foundation, group consciousness is still very indifferent, negative meaning of individualism will reveal the most incisive, virtual society has become a competitive fighting battlefield, flaunt their own neglect or even malicious damage to meet the eye everywhere the others. The individualism values another way of expression is the expansion of interpersonal relationship and interpersonal emotional indifference, people experiencing emotional communication and a virtual in the virtual society, indulge in a virtual meeting interact frequently only inextricably bogged down in, pay close attention to and machine contact, and symbols, but ignoring the other social activities, ignoring the affection and friendship of the neighborhood, close at hand, ignore the feelings between colleagues, make oneself become a "two ears do not hear out of the window" selfish people, eventually leading to human and social alienation, become a social game.
2 the virtuality aggravates the personality split and self-identity crisis
The interpersonal relationship in the virtual society usually adopts virtual, symbolic, anonymous form, people often use this way to hide in the social reality of the identity, status, occupation, economic status and other real information, and with the actual situation of their own different or even opposite virtual character, sometimes also play many different the role of conversion between virtual and reality, between role and role. If things go on like this, the difference is easy to form a multi role in the pattern of personality and conflict, which led to a split personality or multiple personality disorder. An unprecedented expansion of people's self centeredness and subject consciousness, cause people's self-control ability, his respect tolerance and adaptability weakened. In the course of time, there is a confusion between virtual and reality gap, some extraordinary immersed in the virtual social role brings experience, unwilling to return to the real world, some even in the virtual society values move to real life.
With the split personality and the self identity crisis, people can decide which one is the true self, which is the virtual ego itself should follow what kind of thinking and behavior, individual confusion and helplessness, coupled with a variety of virtual social uncertainties, a series of problems of inner anxiety, attribution the loss of sense and so on, have aggravated the human ego identity crisis.
3 anonymity weakens the sense of responsibility and sense of responsibility
The establishment and consolidation of interpersonal relationship requires mutual trust between the two sides in order to maintain and develop. Trust is the foundation of interpersonal communication and the core element of social stability. The reality of society, virtual society is also the case, the virtual society is also based on the stability and harmony of interpersonal trust, but in fact virtual society has led to the lack of trust between people. The virtual society virtual and anonymous communication subject of separation and the true identity of people in a symbolic way in the virtual society in a variety of indirect exchanges, exchanges between the two sides of voice, facial expressions, tone, intonation and can not see each other, just by virtue of the symbolic transfer guess the meaning of each other, trust between the two sides greatly reduced. Plus most people play a role and true identity and status does not match, or even deliberately false information to attract the attention of others, not stop conversion in the role, it is easy to cause the exchanges between the two sides of the fuzzy and uncertain.
The direct result of the lack of interpersonal trust is the weakening of people's sense of responsibility. In reality, people's behavior is affected by social laws, customs and ethics, is often very restrictive, relatively strong sense of responsibility, because people have to be accountable for their actions, so in most cases people's behavior or legal norms and ethics. However, people in the virtual community concern and attention in the virtual society on the surface, but not in intrinsic value standard itself, restraint and supervision of individual components of self-discipline to individual behavior is incapable of action, it is exacerbated by the dilution of the sense of responsibility.
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