摘要: 数字媒介、多媒介与跨媒介是当代媒介生态的三大核心概念,三者各有其内涵与演变脉络,亦存在紧密的内在关联。从哲学阐释学视角可对文字、声音、图像三类基础媒介展开剖析,三者分别生成各具特质的阐释学范式,彼此交织参照,共同构成人类复杂而丰富的理解图谱。数字化与计算化存在固有限度,是否存在不可数字化、不可计算的信息构成核心理论议题,有些信息天然无法被数字编码完整捕获,由此划定数字技术的适用边界。可数字化信号与不可数字化的存在论信息形成本质分野,与之对应,以量化传输为核心的信息科学,同聚焦意义生成、可被重构为 “音信学” 的阐释学形成理论对峙,二者分属信息传输与意义生成两大环节,同时具备对话互通的理论空间。立足数字技术搭建的跨媒介生态,一套统合文字、声音、图像阐释路径,兼具媒介哲学属性的总体阐释学理论框架得以建立,为数字时代的人文理解提供基础性思想范式。
Abstract: Digital media, multimedia, and crossmedia constitute the three core concepts of the contemporary media ecology, each with its own connotations and evolutionary trajectory, yet bound by close intrinsic connections. From the perspective of philosophical hermeneutics, the three basic media (writing, sound, and image) can be analyzed to reveal their distinct hermeneutic paradigms, which interweave and mutually inform one another, together forming the complex and rich tapestry of human understanding. Digitization and computation have inherent limits; whether there exists information that is non-digitalizable and non-computable constitutes a central theoretical issue. Certain information, by its very nature, resists complete capture by digital encoding, thereby demarcating the boundaries of digital technology’s applicability. A fundamental ontological divide separates digitalizable signals from non-digitalizable ontological information. Correspondingly, information science, centered on quantitative transmission, stands in theoretical tension with hermeneutics, which focuses on meaning-generation and can be reconstructed as “message-ology” (yinxinxue). These two fields belong respectively to the stages of information transmission and meaning-generation, yet retain theoretical space for dialogue and mutual enrichment. Grounded in the crossmedia ecology enabled by digital technology, a framework of general hermeneutics emerges: one that integrates the interpretive paths of writing, sound, and image while embodying the attributes of media philosophy. This framework offers a foundational intellectual paradigm for humanistic understanding in the digital age.
Key words:
crossmedia philosophy,
philosophical hermeneutics,
message-ology (yinxinxue),
general hermeneutics
孙周兴. 中宣部哲学社会科学重点专栏·人工智能与未来社会(二十九)|作为媒介哲学的总体阐释学[J]. 探索与争鸣, 2026(8): 37-52.
Sun Zhouxing. General Hermeneutics as Media Philosophy[J]. Exploration and Free Views, 2026(8): 37-52.