Shifting Boundaries of Public and Private Life
Shifting Boundaries of Public and Private Life
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公共生活和私人生活的界限不断变化
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2011
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J. Thompson
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J. Thompson
引人注目的政治丑闻是公共和私人生活关系发生深刻转变的征兆，这种转变伴随并帮助塑造了现代社会的发展。虽然公共和私人生活之间的区别并不是现代社会所独有的，但从印刷到广播、电视和互联网等新传播媒介的出现，已经改变了公共、私人以及它们之间关系的本质。公共和私人都被重构为信息和象征内容的领域，这些领域在很大程度上脱离了物理场所，并日益与不断发展的通信技术交织在一起，创造了一种非常不稳定的局面，在这种情况下，公共和私人之间的界限变得模糊、多孔、有争议，并受制于不断的谈判和斗争。公共生活和私人生活之间不断变化的界限已经成为现代社会的新战场，这是一个个人和组织发动新型信息战的竞争领域，在这个领域，既有的权力关系可能受到挑战和破坏，生命受到损害，有时还会失去名誉。
High-profile political scandals are symptomatic of a profound transformation of the relations between public and private life that has accompanied and helped to shape the development of modern societies. While the distinction between public and private life is not unique to modern societies, the emergence of new media of communication, from print to radio, television and the internet, has altered the very nature of the public, the private and the relations between them. Both the public and the private have been reconstituted as spheres of information and symbolic content that are largely detached from physical locales and increasingly interwoven with evolving technologies of communication, creating a very fluid situation in which the boundaries between public and private are blurred, porous, contestable and subject to constant negotiation and struggle. The shifting boundaries between public and private life have become a new battleground in modern societies, a contested terrain where individuals and organizations wage a new kind of information war, a terrain where established relations of power can be challenged and disrupted, lives damaged and reputations sometimes lost.