A Study On Paul Levinson's Media Teachnology Theories

Paul Levinson is a figure in the new media environment of the school has a reputation of "Mcluhan of the digital age".He always stands in the forefront of the times,has always maintained a positive attitude at the media technology,think in the evolution of rational guidance and development of media technology,will be will be more humane and intelligent direction.In this paper,the medium technology thought sources of Levinson carried out and traced his background,occupation background and upbringing,analyzes the theory origin of his interdisciplinary and diverse,he on Kant's heart interaction theory,Marx's labor theory,Popper's non interactive perfectionism and knowledge schemata,Campbell three the evolution of three stage,Mcluhan's media and media on the extension of Asimov's four law,the "space" and the robot thought of absorption and hybridity,standing in the minds of many masters on the shoulder and develop their own ideological system.Paul Levinson's media technology thought system is mainly composed of three parts,namely,the origin of media technology,the evolution of media technology and the future of media technology.He started with the technical performance of human reason and knowledge as the starting point,with the humanization and intellectualization of technology as the direction of development,and the exploration of the universe as the ultimate goal.The media has important theoretical significance and technological thought of Levinson,he opened a school of philosophy of technology from the perspective of media environment,open the media determinism of humanism in the postmodern turn,how to reveal the social technology and human coexistence,rich insight and judgment of keen.In addition,it has important realistic significance of his media thoughts,it can guide the media management thinking of media convergence in the direction of evolution in the field of media,to watch the news of artificial intelligence era value.In the end,the author summarizes the four main limitations of Levinson medium technology thought: media technology position wild eyed optimism of technology,with the subjective and one-sided statements,and color shifting ignored the political and economic factors.Behind these limitations,in fact,is the crisis and problems of the technical paradigm of media environment school.Therefore,we should use dialectical and critical perspective to look at his media technology theories.