After all, we have become the creatures in the "Information Cocoon Room"

Author:Look at the think tank Time:2022.07.20

The development of modern information technology represented by the Internet, big data, and artificial intelligence is changing with each passing day, and the era of human -machine symbiosis has accelerated. We are in it, and we have a deep feelings about the advent of the long -range era.

The long -range era seems to be more modern and can achieve the end of the world, but this also means that the true contact between people face face has become less; because it depends more on the Internet and technology, many people have become "information cocoon houses". The creatures in it brought a series of confusion and difficulties ...

Accompanied by sweetness and sorrow, how should we recognize this era? How to recognize the changes and inspiration of all remote interactions to the world?

Text ｜ Tang Kuiyu Kazakhstan Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences and Law, Vice President of the China Network Sociology and Life Research Association

This article is reproduced from the WeChat public account "GlobeMagazine" (ID: Globemagazine). The original first was released on July 19, 2022. The original title was "We finally became the creature in the" information cocoon room ".

The birth of the remote era

It can be said that humans are entering a history of life called "distance era". The rapid development of information network technology has continued to transform the human production and living structure system. It has made the current society present a clear characteristic of "long -distance life world process", and the connotation of the spirit and humanistic care of the era is also increasingly diverse.

As British sociologist Gadenus said in the book "Consequences of Modernity": "One of the characteristics of modernity is that events and behaviors that occur in long distances continue to affect our lives, and this impact is increasing."

In other words, contemporary human life awareness (experience) and daily life practice have contained a strong process of spatial era characteristics. Whether it is long -range life, long -range office, remote study, long -range medical treatment, remote leisure and entertainment, etc., they are redefined and re -interpreted. At the same time, people also consider related issues from the dimensions of cognitive level, reflection depth, and practical sense. Therefore, the advent of the long -range era itself also has a certain cultural characteristics of social construction and humanistic care.

In the immersive or integration of contemporary "remote" and traditional "proximal", we can see a world of imagination. The combination of the elements between them will change the characteristics and essence of human cognitive models, social forms, lifestyles, etc. in their own push -up methods. Under the concept, concept, and spiritual effects of the remote era, an incredible collective cognition, empathy understanding, and digital emotional analysis will be produced.

Two sides of the coin

It should be explained that the "distance era" that people often explore now are based on online life. Online life is a virtual survival method carried out or performed under the state of information network technology. It is usually presented in the form of computer Internet access and mobile phone online. In fact, the lifestyle that combines online life with non -online life, online life and offline life has become a dual -mixed life form or mode of life selected by people under a specific situation.

Online life, as a common lifestyle choice in the era of networked and intelligent, is distinctive, such as real -time nature, which is the synchronization expression of online life; network nature, that is, the reflection of virtual reality on the network platform; contextuality belongs to Social space and field social arrangements; connectivity, which is the basis of the Internet's resource mobility and social interaction; experience, such as online learning and online teaching feelings; urgency, sometimes reflected as alternative and alternative and Flexibility can highlight the special meaning and value of life in the process of emergencies; idealism, manifested as the harmonious and compliant state of cyber life; commonity is often reflected in the consensus of love and value; Virusity or simplicity becomes a necessary choice for contemporary life; intelligence or intelligence is the technical application goals and good results of online life; algorithm is the internal system characteristics of calculating social programming; dear In nature, it can be regarded as the initial living conditions of the same nature of the network.

Of course, while online life brings a lot of convenience to people, there are inevitable problems. The main manifestations are simplified, fragmented, decentralized, structured, formalized, risky, disorderly, non -meaning, and unsatisfactory and unsatisfactory. Non -physical and other circumstances.

Online life is often manifested in a state of "space life". The social functions played by the online community that they form will make people deep in it enjoying or even rule by technical rationality while enjoying smart life and smart life. The disorder and chaos characteristics of online life have caused more than once in real life.

Among many discussions, algorithm technology has frequently became the focus of criticism. Algorithm technology makes people more inclined to live in their own world, surrounded, divided, and reshaped by technology, resulting in a more subtle relationship between people. Because this personalized communication restricts the diversity of people's contact information content, it will also damage open vision and healthy public domain.

The fundamental reason is that the logic of media communication has also been reshaped by technology. With the increasingly automated, socialization and mobility of the information environment that people relies on, the role of the "Chuanren" of the public media is being challenged. The comprehensive information platform with algorithm as the main distribution model has gradually occupied the advantage. Algorithm technology uses machine learning technology, natural language processing, probability statistics, etc., taps deeper potential associations in user behavior, exerts the role of emotional communication, and affects people's cognitive attitude equivalent. The information organization of these comprehensive information platforms breaks through the original single "editing system" and is changing the practical logic of the "media". In addition, relying on the comprehensive information platform of the algorithm, it has technical power to embed social life structurally, making it easier to occupy an advantageous position in the spread of information. Therefore, when people are linked to the production, dissemination and consumption of information under various virtual social relations, they are more susceptible to traps in the "information cocoon house". How to break this situation is the game of human and technology, which is a new challenge for human wisdom.

Reconstruction of "mind, self and society"

Looking at it optimistically, with the improvement of network technology, especially the smart network technology, the online life that exists in the long -range era will become more popular, more convenient and unique. By building advanced online platforms, internal and external active communication, exchanges and mobilization, and then adopt reasonable and effective real -life social actions, it will definitely promote the continuous improvement of the quality of online society and finally realize the ideal goal of a better life of online society.

As a new form of "production of life", online life, its data empowerment, smart advantages, and platform effects are obvious, which provides unlimited possibilities for life and production, mutual structure and integration. As a result, the connotation and extension of the paradigm in the "distance era" will be greatly deepened and extended, and it will be more closely linked to digital, networked, and algorithmized social life.

According to the point of view of American sociologist Made, the human mind, self, and social form of human beings in the long -range era will change to varying degrees. In this era, people's inner world, social attitude, and physical world will also change.

American mathematician Nobot Venna's first publication of "Control theory: or Science on Control and Communication in Animals and Machines" was foreseeable as early as 1948. Human eyes, jet engines or tires extend their limbs, and the autonomous driver is connected to their nervous system. In short, the entire world will be changed by the progress of communication technology. Therefore, he asserted: "To be precise, how far the information is transmitted, how far the community (living field) can extend."