山东理工大学学报(社会科学版)

传播与媒介研究长期忽视空间的概念。当下媒介地理学所关注的空间,在邻里、城市、区域、国家等所有尺度上,都不是简单的观念,而是各种现象的综合体;也不只是自然的、地理的,还是社会的和媒介的。不同的空间向度既可被视为具体的物质形式,也可看作是精神层面的多种建构,具有观念形态的特征。媒介特别是电子媒介的广泛介入极大地推动了空间复苏和空间转向,使得人类的空间感由实境转向虚境,由亲身体验转向媒介体验,于是本来以呈现和表达社会为己任的媒介反而成为社会必须关注、使用和依赖的对象,否则会威胁到它生存与发展的空间。

Space is a concept that has long been neglected in communication and media research.Space,in the current research of media geography,is beyond dimensions of neighborhoods,cities,regions and nations.It is not a simple concept but a combination of many phenomena-from natural and geographical to social and media.Space dimensions can be deemed as concrete physical forms as well as mental constructions.Penetration of media,especially digital media,has facilitated spatial recovery and spatial turn-turning from real-life to virtual,from personal experience to media experience in terms of human sense of space.As a consequence,media,with its main focus on social representation and expression,has to become the concern of the society;otherwise,its survival and development might be at stake.