摘要
20世纪80年代在西方社会首先兴起的童年消逝学说,既是对童年文化当代命运的一种富于洞察力的论断,也从一个特殊的视角揭示了作为童年文化母体的现代文化自身所面临的某种内在危机。以尼尔·波兹曼为代表的童年消逝学说在其童年文化形态批判的表象之下,实际上直指对于新媒介环境下现代文化自身精神危机的批判。然而,进入21世纪以来,受到一种媒介乐观主义思潮的影响,这一富于批判深意的童年文化观似乎已经被人们遗忘了。随着有关童年文化的危机意识在高速运行的新媒介生活中被日渐淡忘,重新反思童年消逝说所蕴含的丰富的文化内涵,更重要的是,重新召回这一思想所内含的深刻的文化批判精神,对于我们认识和理解当代童年文化乃至整个现代文化的命运,具有十分重大的现实意义和价值。
Disappearance of childhood is a cultural theory first emerged in Western society in 1980s. It＇s formed out of a visionary observation on contemporary children＇s culture as well as a revelation of an inner crisis of modern civilization. The theory, most notably put forward by Nell Postman, has its close ~elevance to the new media e^a and offers a profound perspective for observing the contemporary crisis of childhood culture. Through that, it also reveals a spiritual crisis of the modern culture itself. However, the warning of the theory seems to fade in the 21st century as people began choosing to assume an easy optimist＇s attitude towards new media and technology, and to neglect the real crisis of children＇s culture in a high-speed new media era. It is now of grand significance to re-examine the cultural meaning of the theory and to recall the cultural critique spirit that it implies, in order to have a sight into the future of modern children＇s culture and civilization.
出处
《学术月刊》
CSSCI
北大核心
2014年第4期106-114,共9页
Academic Monthly
关键词
童年的消逝
文化危机
新媒介
尼尔·波兹曼
disappearance of childhood, cultural crisis, new media, Nell Postman
