Abundance: On the Experience of Living in a World of Information Plenty
Abundance: On the Experience of Living in a World of Information Plenty
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丰富性：关于生活在信息丰富的世界中的体验
DOI：
10.1093/joc/jqab045
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发表时间：
2021
影响因子：
7.9
通讯作者：
Ingrid Bejerman
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作者：
Ingrid Bejerman
巴勃罗·J·博兹科夫斯基是当今媒体和技术领域最杰出的作家和思想家之一，他试图探索“生活在信息丰富的世界中的经历”，超越数字时代关于信息过载的流行论述，既提供了一个感人的、往往是亲密的反思，作为一个具有阿根廷视角和二十世纪情感的单身父亲，试图在美国心脏地带抚养两个代表21世纪人生观的十几岁女孩，也提供了一个严肃、严谨、非常原创的、这项学术成就得到了迈克尔·舒德森(Michael Schudson)和弗雷德·特纳(Fred Turner)等人的认可(这是一项里程碑式的研究)和弗雷德·特纳(Fred Turner)(“一项令人着迷且重要的工作”)，花了5年时间完成并处理移动通信、社交媒体、新闻和娱乐消费与技术之间的联系，包括但不限于一项雄心勃勃的大规模人种学研究(进行了158次半结构化采访，并对700人进行了调查)，以及对行为和社会科学中信息过载的传奇历史的解构。1994年，我从阿根廷搬到美国，写道：博茨科夫斯基，我灵魂的一部分是，很可能永远都是，在我的祖国，特别是在我心爱的布宜诺斯艾利斯。正是从这种怀旧的角度，经常读起来像是对他家乡的颂歌，丰富多彩被构思出来：2018年的一个冬夜，作家在去梅奥广场的路上漫步在科里恩特斯大道上，经过他已故父亲的办公室和里卡多·罗哈斯文化中心，30年前他在那里上了里卡德·皮格里亚教授的豪尔赫·路易斯·博尔赫斯的课程，这将永远改变他对阅读的看法。博兹科夫斯基解释说：“在这个熟悉的领域中，我看到了一个可悲的常见情况和新奇的转折。”这引起了我的注意，随后就引出了这本书的主题：“有两个年轻人住在街上。他们并排坐在几把破旧的椅子上，面朝人行道，几件物品藏在他们的背部和一栋建筑的正面之间。他们面前有一个倒过来的大纸箱，作为一张临时制作的餐桌，周围是堆放着的较小的纸箱，无力地划分出他们在人行道上的半私密空间。他们正在用一个塑料容器吃饭，旁边放着一罐可乐。他们的眼睛盯着一个屏幕，屏幕发出微弱的光，在一个原本很公平的地方
In setting out to explore “the experience of living in a world of information plenty” and to go beyond prevalent discourses of information overload in the digital age, Pablo J. Boczkowski, one of the most prominent writers and thinkers working in the field of media and technology today, delivers both a touching, often intimate reflection as “a single dad with an Argentine perspective and a twentieth century sensibility, trying to parent two teenage girls in the American heartland who epitomize a twenty-first century outlook on life,” and a serious, rigorous, highly original, paramount piece of scholarship endorsed by the likes of Michael Schudson (“a landmark study”) and Fred Turner (“a fascinating and important piece of work”), one taking 5 years to complete and tackling connections between mobile communication, social media, the consumption of news and entertainment, and technology, including but not limited to an ambitious, large-scale ethnographic study (conducting 158 semi-structured interviews supplemented by a survey of 700 people) and a deconstruction of the storied history of information overload in behavioral and social sciences.“I moved from Argentina to the United States in 1994,” writesBoczkowski,“and part of my soul is, and will probably always be, in my homeland, especially in my beloved Buenos Aires.”(Boczkowski, 2021, p. xxvii). It is from this nostalgic perspective often reading like an ode to his hometown that Abundance was conceived: the author strolling down Avenida Corrientes on his way to the Plaza de Mayo on a winter night in 2018, passing by the office of his late father and the Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas, where three decades earlier he’d taken a course on Jorge Luis Borges delivered by Ricard Piglia that would forever change his views on how to read.“In the midst of this familiar territory,” Boczkowski explains,“I saw a sadly common situation with a novel twist.” It caught my attention and subsequently led to the theme that made this book’s argument coalesce.“There were two young people living on the street. They were seated next to each other on a couple of worn out chairs, facing the sidewalk, with a few possessions tucked away between their backs and the façade of a building. They had a large cardboard box turned upside-down in front of them, as an improvised dinner table, and were surrounded by smaller cardboard boxes piled up, feebly demarcating their semiprivate space on the sidewalk. They were eating from a plastic container, with a can of Coke next to it. Their eyes were fixed on a screen that emanated a dim light within an otherwise fairly