On The Attribute Of Cultural Dissemination Of Internet Of Things

The emergence of Internet of Things means things as a media emerging on the history’s stage of human’s information dissemination. Internet of Things shows distinct cultural attribute as a new communication form. Studying the cultural dissemination’s attribute of Internet of Things from the view of communication, is not only the inevitable demand for understanding the cultural landscape of Internet of Things of this age, the situation also requires for processing the extension of man in the new medium, realizing the new paradigm of Internet of Things as the medium organization and product, clarify the interrelationship between technology, body and media of Internet of Things.Things enter into the information network system through connections. The position of things becomes the key point to confirming its existence and significance to produce. Things construct the basic structure of information dissemination by means of the confirmation and transformation of position, impact on persons’ social role and all areas of human-social culture, then achieve its media role.Things through two levels which are ideological and technological cultures present themselves in the Internet of Things. On the technological culture level, Internet of Things means the technological progress of communication. Although things possess some degree of autonomy, it makes people to support the sense of reality. On the ideological and cultural level, things as a media mark a new historical stage of the development of media forms which demonstrate the new cultural attribute such as the parallel of information’s susceptibility and its difficulty to know, media’s opening and equality, things’publicity and commerciality, and so on. Meanwhile, things load with personal values, reflect on the development and tendency of human’s value through interpersonal communication, ideology, performance and identify the difference among the communication system of Internet of Things.People’s comprehension of the cultural attribute of Internet of Things always takes the social space constructed by things as premise. They enter into the social space through things, construct and understand the individual and social space in the daily life as a result of impact of things. In this process, the social space constructed by things becomes the living area of subject. Simultaneously, things present the emotion and significance of human society by its symbolic function.