Research On Time And Space Experience In The Age Of Social Media

McLuhan once mentioned: "Speed will cancel the time and space in human consciousness." The time and space he mentioned is not physical time and space,but refers to people's subjective experience of time and space.With the development of media technology,it is the time when the electronic media is in the ascendant,but he has predicted that the development of media technology will profoundly affect the time and space experience of the public.Although time and space is a very abstract concept,the perception of time and space is something that everyone can receive.Due to the influence of media technology,people can experience the "fast" and "slow","complete" and "fragmented" of time;the "private" and "transparent","virtual" and "real" of space,etc.Innis,or McLuhan,Merowitz and other communication scholars have deeply explored the relationship between space and time and media technology,and recognized the important influence of media technology on time and space changes.Nowadays,it is a social media era with rapid changes in time and space.With the expansion of human activities and the development of society,every technological innovation and media change in human history affects people's understanding of time and space from the traditional media period.In the era of the Internet,people's experience of time from complete,one-way to fragmented,instantaneous,the understanding of space from physical entities to virtual,transparent,etc.,all indicate that the innovation of media technology is carrying out the time and space experience of the masses.Imperceptible influence.The various social media created by media technology have become an important tool for people to enrich their social time and space,thereby eliminating or extending the distance between time and space,constructing a spatial form of the scene,and creating various social activities.However,due to these changes in time and space experience,it has had many effects on social development,including the privacy of interpersonal communication models,the rise of “micro” culture and the formation of time and space tension,and the control of individuals by media technology.People need dialectical treatment.While seeing it promote social development,we must also be alert to some of the negative effects it brings.Mishandling may lead to problems such as alienation of science and technology.Therefore,this paper mainly analyzes the time and space of the public in the era of social media.What is the experience? What is the impact of the transformation of the time and space experience? This will help to understand the social media more fully,the correct attitude of the public to social media and how to dialectically understand the current situation of mediation.