メディアに何ができるのか : 生活世界/システムとの関連から見る限界と可能性
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The object of this paper is to investigate, theoretically and historically, the role of communication media in our society. Information processing in our society advances as it become separate from the material and become more self-referential. Such advancement is accelerated by the evolution of media, the vehicle of information, and occurs both in the realm of life-world, the background of human communication, and the realm of social systems, the highly organized unities such as capitalist economy or political structure. As Jurgen Habermas noted, social systems were once almost overlapped with the life-world but later began to separate from it. It was caused by the formation of hierarchical society and supported by the evolution of literacy, which was not inherent in the early societies. At the beginning of modern age, oral communication and literacy began to merge. In this period citizens' life-world was connected to social systems and could dynamically regulate them. Afterward life-world gradually lost its power and became client of the services social systems offered to them. Consumption society of the 20^<th> century is characterized by the mass-production and mass-consumption feedback loop. The 20^<th> century is also characterized by the insinuation of mass-media across our society. Mass-media and its mass-advertisement require some kind of positive activity on the side of consumers but it really is forced by the media. Such distorted sense of mass-media affected the incompleteness of capitalist market in the 20^<th> century. In the age of electronic network, there can be fundamental change on this aspect of media. Electronic network can offer a new level of literacy to life-world which has been under dominance of social systems.
- 東京農工大学の論文
- 2002-09-10