探索与争鸣 ›› 2022, Vol. 1 ›› Issue (2): 95-105.

• 技术创新与文明重构——探索与争鸣青年学人专刊 • 上一篇    下一篇

社会与治理|虚拟型熟人社会:一个新乡村社会形态

郭明   

  • 出版日期:2022-02-24 发布日期:2022-02-24

Virtual Acquaintance Society: The Form of a New Rural Society

  • Online:2022-02-24 Published:2022-02-24

摘要:

数字时代,互联网实践把基于血缘、地缘而组建的乡村熟人社会复制到数字平台上,突破了传统乡村社会的地理边界的限制,建构起横跨城市与乡村之间的数字共同体,构筑起村民之间的数字化联络机制,形成乡村社会的数字化关系网络,最终逐渐生成虚拟型熟人社会形态。这表明乡村熟人社会并没有发生实质性衰败,反而依托互联网技术,重新激活了乡村社会的内部活力,维系着传统乡村熟人社会的基本内核,展现出一种熟人社会的新形态,即以熟人社会的虚拟化运作为特性的乡村社会形态。该乡村社会形态的特征区别于既有研究工作中对熟人社会的描述。虚拟型熟人社会不仅是识别数字时代乡村社会基本形态的抓手,而且是对“熟人社会”概念的深化和拓展,是认清数字时代的乡村社会中诸多现实困惑、实现乡村社会有效治理的理论前提。

关键词: 数字时代, 互联网, 熟人社会, 乡村社会形态, 村民行为

Abstract:

In the digital age, the internet practice replicates the rural acquaintance society established based on blood and geography to the internet platform, breaks through the limitations of the geographical boundary of the traditional rural society, constructs a digital community between cities and villages, builds a digital contact mechanism between villagers, and forms a digital relationship network of rural society, Finally, it evolves into a virtual acquaintance social form in the digital age. In essence, the rural acquaintance society does not present the decline form of rural society, but relies on internet technology to reactivate the internal vitality of rural society and maintain the basic core of traditional rural acquaintance society, but shows a new form of acquaintance society, that is, the rural social form characterized by the virtualization of acquaintance society. The characteristics of the rural social form are different from the description of acquaintance society in the existing research work. Virtual acquaintance society is not only the starting point to identify the basic form of rural society in the digital age, but also the deepening and expansion of the concept of“acquaintance society”. It is the theoretical premise to recognize many practical puzzles in the current rural society and realize the effective governance of rural society.

Key words: digital age, internet, acquaintance society, rural social form, villagers’ behavior