The Interaction Between Fans And Virtual Idols In The Post-human Perspective

If humans can build emotional relationships with technological objects that do not have physical bodies,and even the emotional interaction between humans and machines becomes a common phenomenon,individual lifestyles and social organization models are bound to change,and the way humans perceive and establish their own existence will also be subverted..The advent of a series of new media technologies,such as mobile networks,virtual reality,and artificial intelligence,has not only made the "complete absence of the body of the communication subject" a reality,but has also created more and more human-machine emotional interaction scenarios.Among them,virtual idols that exist in the form of cyber technology,even though they are posthuman subjects who are completely "absent from the body",have also induced large-scale and deep-level fan emotional interaction.Therefore,based on the investigation of the interaction between fans and virtual idols,this research considers whether human communication can transcend the physical body from the perspective of post-humans,and explores whether and how the emotional interaction between humans and machines is possible and possible.This research is based on the methods of text analysis,participatory observation,in-depth interviews,and literature research.It takes famous virtual idol Luo Tianyi as a research case,and obtains detailed first-hand information and data.The research finds: The essence is the presence of practice-based models,and the super-stable images they generate,which possess the infiniteness of the spatial dimension and the eternity of the time dimension.On this basis,human-computer emotional interaction is mainly developed along two paths.One is to perceive the existence of "you" through continuous cyber daily practice,so as to obtain the intimacy of personal companionship.Second,through the artistic creation empowered by technology to confirm the existence of "I",thereby obtaining the satisfaction of self-realization and self-transcendence.For this reason,fans and virtual idols,humans and machines have formed a mutually beneficial symbiotic relationship,accumulating profound emotional energy.