A Study Of The Construction Of Subjectivity By Media Technology

In the age of media,the ever-changing technological tools have led people to revel in the ’dividends’ of technology while at the same time leading them into the ’trap’ of being controlled by technology,gradually weakening their own sense of subjectivity and the importance of the bodily subject.Human subjectivity is being challenged by technology as never before.Scholars have noticed this phenomenon and explored the idea of body and subjectivity from different perspectives,but they have mainly focused on the relationship between technology and human subjectivity,without systematically and explicitly exploring the construction of the body subject by different media technologies in the process of information dissemination and communication from the scale of subjectivity.Even if there are studies,they are scattered in other studies and are not systematically discussed in depth.This article chooses to place the body in the communication of information,combines the theoretical knowledge of literature and communication,takes subjectivity as the scale and the body as the mediator,systematically compares the theoretical origins of the formation of the concept of subjectivity in the pre-technological,technological and post-technological eras,deciphers the specific manifestations of the three views of the subject in terms of body form,body state and body status,and explores the humanistic moral concerns presented in their technological and bodily views.It also explores the humanistic moral concerns presented in their views on technology and the body.The article focuses on the physical subjectivity in the pre-technological era,the conscious subjectivity in the technological era,and finally the bodily subjectivity in the post-technological era,examining how different media technologies construct human subjectivity through the body in the process of information dissemination and communication,how changes in media technologies change the state of presence or absence of the body in communication,and ultimately how technology constructs human subjectivity in different media eras.The first part is an introduction.Part I,Introduction.This section discusses the background and significance of the study,the current state of research in the academic field,the research methodology and innovation points.It then defines the concepts of subjectivity and bodily subjectivity,and then analyses bodily subjectivity in the context of the three media changes in the pre-technological,technological and post-technological eras,so as to lay down the basis for the general delineation of the main part of the article.The main body of the essay is the second part.Each of the three chapters is structured according to the "why,what and how",with a logical progression of chapters,the third chapter being the main focus of the thesis.Each chapter begins with a theoretical and practical definition of the technological era,followed by an overview of its relationship between media technology and the body.The logical line of each chapter is as follows: theoretical tracing as the theoretical foundation of the body subject view;the body subject view is the result of a combination of theoretical background and social experience field,and is analysed from three aspects: body form,body state and body status;the study of "how media technology constructs human subjectivity" is an in-depth discussion based on the body subject view.The study of ’how media technologies construct human subjectivity’ is based on an in-depth discussion of the bodily subject.Finally,at the end of each chapter,a reflection on the body subjectivity of the chapter is presented,which serves as a continuation of the previous chapter.The third part is the conclusion of the article.The main purpose is to summarise the study of the construction of bodily subjectivity by media technology in communication.By analysing the construction of bodily subjectivity by media technology in the three eras,this article argues that it is necessary to summon the return of the bodily subject,regardless of the era of media technology and the level of technological development.The body has always been a subject that cannot be ignored,and the perception of the body is not limited to the traditional material body of the pre-technological era or the body as an object of consciousness in the technological era,but a more subjective human body formed in the post-technological era in cooperation with the game of media technology,even though the body subjectivity of that era is still inadequate.Today,as post-human society approaches,a re-examination and re-construction of the human body subject is being undertaken with a view to reconstructing the status of human subjectivity,finding a more harmonious and friendly way of coexistence in the relationship between technology and human beings,and ultimately providing a relevant reference for our human society regarding the "development of man himself".