Research On Virtuality And Reality Of Internet Communication

Nowadays, with the wide spread of Internet, it becomes an indispensable means for people's communications. Virtuality is the most obvious characteristics of Internet and Internet communications. Internet and Internet communications have brought virtuality to human's real world. What are the philosophical connotations of virtuality? What is the relationship between the virtuality in Internet communications and reality? How to deal with the relationship between virtuality and reality in Internet communications? By using materialist dialectics as its theory, this thesis seeks to make a systematical research on the relationship between the virtuality and reality in Internet communications, namely, the virtuality as well as reality in the Internet communications; the Internet communications'influence upon real world and the real world's control and regulation on Internet communications.In the preface, the author points out the appearance and development of Internet communications as inevitable as the development of history. The development of Internet offers human beings the Internet space which is different from the reality. The Internet and Internet space offers us new means and space for communications. That is how the Internet communications come into being. After that the author makes it clear the definition of Internet communications, that is, Internet communications are people's information exchange and interaction activities carried out through Internet tools to meet their physical and mental demands. According to the interaction of the subject and object, the Internet communication can be classified into strong interaction and weak interaction. The strong interaction includes net chatting and electronic bulletin board and the weak interaction includes e-mail, web search, file transfer. The virtuality grants the Internet communications such characteristics as open, global, convenient, anonymous, equal and postmodern. The second part deals with the problem of duality caused by Internet communications. Firstly, the philosophical connotations of virtuality and reality are distinguished:reality should be defined as all the objective things existing in the form of natural state rather than in the form of digital signals and the relationship among all the things, including the nature, society human beings and the relationship among them; virtuality should be defined as the simulation of all the natural things, social things and its process by digital method, including the digital construction of non-reality things on the basis of reality through the creation of human imagination. Secondly, the duality of virtuality and reality of the Internet communication system are analyzed from the perspective of the static. The four elements in the Internet communications-the subject, object, tools, and regulations are the unification of virtuality and reality. Thirdly, since the Internet communications behaviors and consequences are the combination of virtuality and reality, the Internet communications activities must possess the duality of virtuality and reality. Fourthly, the thesis analyses the duality of the consequences of Internet communications, that is, the duality's influence on politics, economy, culture and human beings'development, namely, Internet communication promoting economic development while triggering economic security problems; Internet communications promoting political democracy while causing political conflicts; Internet communications promoting cultural diversity while leading to cultural hegemony; Internet communications promoting the all-rounded development of people while leading to the alienation of people. The last part comes the unity of opposites relationship between virtuality and reality. Virtuality and reality is a pair of contradiction: they are different from each other while interrelated with one another.In the third part, harmony is taken as the values and ideals of the Internet communications. The contradiction between virtuality and reality can not be handled in current Internet communications, causing the conflicts of virtuality and reality as well as some social problems. The four principles--emphasis, guidance, services, management should be insist on, taking practical measures such as guiding, technical development, legal norms and moral self-discipline to build a harmonious Internet communications relationship;maximizing the positive value of Internet communications, avoiding the negative effects of Internet communications to achieve the scientific development of Internet communication.