Cultural "New Forces": Online games in the Internet

It is after knowing that, until today, just saw the "Michael Jackson: This is the film." In addition to the shock, more is the feeling-the only few young people love but for mainstream society rejected MJ, today has been the glory that should belong to him, then, today has been more and more young people are keen on online games, will be like MJ's popular music and rock, as the future of the mainstream of culture?

Let's start with MJ: that's it. The final image of the pop king will restore a god of light to adulthood, but after the restoration it will raise the standard of God again. So, the contemporary music scene, no longer the legend of God.

"Michael Jackson awakens the collective memory of the Chinese people," CCTV's global Vision said. However, I think this statement is in fact less than a key word-should be said to awaken the Chinese "collective memory fragments," more appropriate.

There is no doubt that MJ has opened our eyes to the lack of cultural information, but at the peak of MJ, our media missed him and our social mainstream values rejected him. Few Chinese can have a little complete understanding of MJ's peak, and for most people, MJ was just glimpse. So I agree with the triple Wang that MJ is a "familiar stranger".

In the 25 Frang, I was amazed at the huge changes in social and cultural attitudes--our media, the people around us, who have not been stingy with praise to commemorate MJ, and Europe and the United States compared to comparable more.

So the idea of a very interesting topic--why is there such a great change in people's cultural attitudes? What will be our collective memory in 25 years?

I first give my answer--online games, which are a part of the young people fanatical love, and in the mainstream of the concept of praise, perhaps in 20 years will become our collective memory.

Every new form of cultural products, at the beginning of the development of the encounter from the traditional concept of questioning or even against. But with the advance of the times, the new sharp cultural products tend to show more and more vigorous vitality, the substitution of the traditional mainstream. This has been proved countless times in history-pop music and rock and roll, fiction, and even drama.

In the 50 's, rock and roll in the United States took root, the Americans think rock music is communism subversion of the United States tool, 30 years later, rock and roll into the new reform and opening-up in China, the Chinese people think that rock and roll is the western decline of bourgeois culture of China's erosion. All this, all prove that when a new cultural form comes into being, people instinctively produce a kind of fear and repulsion because they don't understand it, and the root of this fear and exclusion is that tradition and experience give people a sense of security, and things that transcend tradition and experience tend to amaze and even fear.

This is true of fiction as well. Now, the novel is the most widely used in literary works, but in the novel just appeared, "Han Shu Yi" is this evaluation-"the novelist flow, cover out of the barnyard officer." Street Talk about Lane, the road to listen to TU (thoroughfare) said by the creation also. "The novel is not on the table embarrassing position, has lasted for 2000 years, the beginning of the last century, the novel is still difficult to ascend, even the" dream of Red Mansions "," The Romance of the Kingdoms "such a masterpiece, but is regarded as readings. Classics is the Orthodox book.

Another example of drama, from the Yuan Dynasty until the Qing dynasty has always been a form of folk art, until more than 200 years ago Hui class to the capital to be able to be affirmed by the mainstream values, and Peking Opera became the Quintessence, it is more late things.

Recalling that the cultural form has not been accepted into the mainstream and become a classic course, we can also find a very obvious trend------------the change of people's cultural ideas is becoming more and more rapid. The more recent forms of culture, the faster the popularization rate-for example, karaoke, from misunderstanding to the popular world, the time span is very small, such as video games consoles and video arcade, also in the short run through the never accepted to accept the course.

So why are new cultural forms gaining acceptance and recognition more and more quickly? The author believes that technological progress is the most fundamental impetus.

Why can the novel become mainstream? Behind it is the push of paper and printing. The invention of papermaking and the large-scale popularization of printing has undergone a long historical evolution. In the West, for example, before Gutenberg invented the printing press, books needed to be copied manually, a very expensive cultural product that could only be used to record the most important content-religious theology and a handful of philosophical writings-and, with the advent of the printing press, the productivity of books was greatly increased and costs dropped rapidly. The expression of "leisure and leisure" of literary works to obtain rapid dissemination and popularization of the premise. It is no exaggeration to say that the Gutenberg press indirectly propelled the European Renaissance.

Why is popular music and rock and roll so mainstream faster? It's because there are better technologies to make it faster, including radio, television and tape recorders and tapes, and even today's recordings and networks.

There is no doubt that the advent of the Internet, both in breadth and speed, transcends the past. This new technical means will inevitably lead to the renewal of cultural products and popularization of the accelerated.

As a companion to the Internet game, but also in the innate gene with rapid popularization and mainstream of potential.

"This is what MJ said:" We need an adventure, people come here, hoping to escape reality, we have to take them away from reality. At the same time we have to convey love, which is the most important. "This inadvertently shows the fundamental value of all cultural products--the real life is always a variety of inferior, imperfect, and people always have a escapism or beyond the reality of the inner desire, cultural products to the impossible into the possibility, just as the dream of life!"

As for the ability to take people away from reality and bring them into a more perfect world, online gaming has surpassed any cultural product of the past. It is based on this judgment, the network game will be faster speed to establish its mainstream cultural products status.

Of course, we can not deny that the network game as a new culture products, has also been questioned, mainly in a small number of minors because of lack of self-control and addicted to the game. This question, of course, can not be avoided, but we must see that this issue has a complex social reasons-the generation gap in family education is very serious, this generation gap caused by the communication barrier, directly reflected in the children play online game problem. The parents ' understanding of the new cultural products leads to interference and control, and the intervention and control lead to the minors escaping from the reality and are more willing to release the pressure through the network games.

Therefore, a small number of minors addicted to the problem of online games, the need for social forces to solve, the responsibility of a simple deduction of online games are either not see the crux of the problem, or the intention to shirk responsibility.

It is gratifying to note that the Ministry of Culture recently advocated the implementation of the "Network Game minors Guardian Project" To help parents better achieve effective communication with their children, to help minors healthy participation in the game. When human development relies on science and technology to advance, no one can reverse or slow the pace of the Internet era, online games will eventually from the new power of the trenches into the mainstream culture of the queue.