“故园荒芜”:“数字死亡”的记忆与遗忘  

“The desolate hometown”: Memorizing or forgetting the “digital death” on Chinese social media platforms

作　　者：方惠 吴尚蔚 FANG Hui;WU Shangwei(School of Journalism and Communication,Jinan University;Research Base of the Consolidation of Chinese National Community Consciousness,Jinan University)

机构地区：[1]暨南大学新闻与传播学院 [2]暨南大学铸牢中华民族共同体意识研究基地

出　　处：《国际新闻界》2023年第10期28-48,共21页Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication

基　　金：国家社科基金青年项目“媒介记忆视角下香港通识教科书的国家认同研究”(项目编号:21CXW021)的阶段性成果。

摘　　要：本研究从记忆与遗忘的辩证关系出发,聚焦中国社交平台上的“数字死亡”,即个体用户的平台账号被关闭的现象。本文的经验材料包含131份网上发布的数字生命叙事和39份深度访谈,这些遭遇强制性删除后的个人书写和言说不仅将数字时代的记忆政治公之于众,也将其公共化。研究发现,封号作为事件侵入了个体的日常生活,带来了死亡般的沉痛和创伤,个体数字记忆被全面删除,(一部分)自我也被湮灭和剥离。诉诸书写是抵抗遗忘的方式,抗议平台加诸的越轨标签,被封号者的身份和主体性也在书写中得以重构和确认。从结果上看,通过删除制造遗忘的平台治理反而在社会实践中激发了积极的记忆铭刻,而删除给技术化的记忆结构所带来的长远影响则值得深思。This article focuses on the “digital death” on Chinese social media platforms. It refers to social media platforms' depriving individuals of their right to live digitally on platforms through repressive account suspensions(namely “account bombing”). We collected 131 online writings about digital lives and conducted 39 in-depth online interviews on users' experiences of account bombing. These narratives publicize the politics of memory in Chinese cyberspace. This study argues that account bombing as an incident interrupts individuals' daily lives and causes deathlike pain and trauma. The blocked users' digital memories are entirely deleted, with(part) their digital self annihilated and stripped. Writing is a way to resist forgetting and protest against the deviant stigma imposed by the authorities. It also reproduces and confirms the blocked users' identity and subjectivity. As a result, Internet governance, committed to forgetting through deleting, has stimulated proactive memory inscription. The long-term effects of deletion on the technologized memory structure are also worth further exploring.

关 键 词：封号 数字记忆 遗忘 平台治理 反记忆 

分 类 号：G206[文化科学—传播学]