The Identity And Fission In The Age Of Electronic Media

This thesis, taking the identity in the age of electronic media as the study object and selecting the broadcast group media represented by Television and Film and the two-way decentralized electronic media represented by We Media, explores how the technical characteristics of electronic media work on human narrative and cognition so as to figure out the trend of identity fission through life scenarios changes and the impact on subject shaping brought by electronic media.Chapter One explores the human identity brought by broadcast group media represented by Television and Film. Namely, it is, through image processing of the electronic media, to create a new symbolic link, and then to construct identities via imaginary virtual experience. First, it distinguishes the difference between Television and Film in narrative and structure and then analyzes the logical basis of image consumption,pointing out that image consumption simulates the "I am present" premised on the "I am not present". The identity confirmation via imitating examples in the image is a self-proved repeated narrative and identity reconstruction. Then, from the perspectives of electronic emulation, it analyzes the new speech context created by electronic media, and believes the new speech context causes destabilizing and reason-compressed subject.Thus, the identity is not stable self-ascription but imagination.Chapter Two studies the human identity affected by two-way decentralized electronic media represented by We Media. That is, in the independent and separate living space virtualized by media, it makes interactions with other individuals through symbols and image-texts and realizes the construction and maintenance of multiple identities. First, through the analysis of life forms and experiences brought by media update, it makes explicit individuals' characteristics of concealment of material body and changeable identities in the We Media living space. Then, this thesis tries to observe the movement and division of the human cognitive center from the transition of the body image and believes that the powerful simulation of the electronic media breaks the correlation between the identity and the body. It also believes that the body image in virtual space is individuals' imagination expressed via technology. In the end of this chapter, the thesis, from the perspective of the mutual independence of the spiritual space and the diverse differences of self-representation, explores the potential dismantling and divisive logic in We Media, believing that the two-way decentralized electronic media changes individuals' expression way and their focus of attention,promotes individuals'self-dismantling and cognizes others by coding and dismantling logic to drive the subject to become split.Chapter Three focuses on the way and the trend of identity fission and organizes the identity in the age of the electronic media from three aspects: scenario, narrative and fission. First,from the aspect of scenario, it makes a detailed analysis of use interface of the electronic media and discusses the process how media participates in human experience. Self-representation and processing supported by media technology are the way how individual identity splits and disperses, and as a result, the subject becomes multiple and decentralized. Second, from the aspect of narrative, it discusses the individual rising and group aphasia created by electronic media update. The prosperity of individual narrative has not only brought a wealth of moral democratic sociology imagination, but also led to the discussion about the relationship between the media and the subject. Third, from the aspect of fission and after reviewing the changes of subjects and scenarios as well as the trends of identity construction, this chapter arrives at a conclusion that under the prompting of electronic media, the identity is developing from self-ascription towards evaluation, with the splitting as the inevitable trend.