摘要
随着数字媒介技术在当代社会中的深度嵌入,地方不再仅作为物理空间被感知和经验,而是在平台架构、算法逻辑与媒介实践的持续作用下,被不断生产与重塑。围绕这一转变,学界已从人文地理学、环境心理学、社会学、人类学与媒介研究等多个学科对数字情境中的地方感展开探讨,但相关研究长期呈现概念分散、视角区隔与理论碎片化的特征,尚缺乏能够解释“数字-地方”复杂耦合机制的整合性框架。文章基于1980—2025年国内外相关文献的系统梳理与知识谱系分析,追溯了数字地方感在多学科交汇中的涌现路径,揭示其从静态属性向过程性、从物理依附向媒介构成的理论转向。在此基础上,提出将“数字地方感”理解为一种系统性生成式整合概念框架,将技术基础设施、情感心理机制、社会关系网络、文化意义生产与权力-政治经济结构纳入同一分析视野,强调数字地方感是一种在多重子系统互动中持续生成的动态过程。文章认为,引入系统性生成视角有助于推动数字地方感研究从多学科并行走向理论整合,为理解平台社会中的空间经验、情感政治与地方治理提供新的分析路径。
The advent and deep permeation of digital media technologies have precipitated a paradigmatic shift in the ontological and phenomenological understanding of place.No longer conceived as a stable,bounded physical container,place in the contemporary era is dynamically produced,mediated,and continually reconstituted through the intricate interplay of platform architectures,algorithmic operations,locative media,and networked social practices.This transformation has catalyzed the emergence of"digital sense of place"as a critical interdisciplinary concern.Scholars across the disciplines of human geography,environmental psychology,sociology,anthropology,and media studies have engaged with this phenomenon,yet their inquiries have largely progressed in parallel,resulting in a fragmented intellectual landscape characterized by conceptual dispersion,methodological insularity,and theoretical compartmentalization.A cohesive framework capable of elucidating the complex,recursive coupling between the digital and the placal remains conspicuously absent.To address this gap,this article conducts a systematic knowledge archaeology and synthesis of relevant literature spanning the years1980 to 2025.Employing bibliometric analysis and critical discourse review,we trace the genealogical development of place scholarship within each of the core disciplines and map their convergent trajectories toward the digital.Our analysis identifies a fundamental theoretical evolution:a move from essentialist,static,and physically deterministic models of place(exemplified by Tuan's topophilia and Relph's place identity)towardrelational,processual,and mediated conceptions.Human geography's"relational turn"and its subsequent engagement with"hybrid space"dismantled the physical-digital binary.Environmental psychology meticulously operationalized and measured place attachment,later extending its quantitative paradigms to validate the psychological reality of digital emotional bonds.Sociology and anthropology foregrounded the social construction of place,revealing how power dynamics,cultural practices,and embodied rituals undergird placemaking-a perspective extended to digital communities and virtual belonging.Media studies evolved fromtreating media as mere representational tools to recognizing platforms and locative media as constitutive infrastructures that actively shape spatial perception and social interaction.The synthesis of these multidisciplinary insights exposes their collective yet unintegrated recognition of digital sense of place as amultifaceted,systemic phenomenon.Building on this foundation,this paper makes a central theoretical contribution by proposing"digital sense of place"as a systemically generative integrative analytical framework.This framework posits digital sense of place not as a possessed attribute but as an ongoing,emergent process generated within a dynamic system composed of five interconnected subsystems:(1)the technological-infrastructural subsystem(platforms,algorithms,interfaces);(2)the affective-psychological subsystem(digitally mediated attachment,identity,meaning);(3)the social-relational subsystem(networked communities andmediated interactions);(4)the cultural-semiotic subsystem(the remediation and circulation of place-basednarratives and memories);and(5)the power-political economic subsystem(the governance,ownership,andalgorithmic curation of digital space).These subsystems operate in continuous feedback loops,co-constituting thelived experience of place in a digital society.This systemic,generative perspective facilitates a critical analysis ofcore tensions inherent in digital place-making,such as between delocalization and re-localization,authentic affective experience and platform-engineered engagement,and discursive openness and algorithmic exclusion.Consequently,this integrated framework advances the field from multidisciplinary parallelism toward theoretically robust,holistic explanation.It provides a potent lens for examining pressing contemporary issues,including the affective politics of platform societies,the governance of smart cities,the preservation of digitalheritage,and the ethical implications of algorithmically modulated spatial experience.The framework thus repositions digital sense of place as a central analytical node for understanding how locality is persistently forged,contested,and lived within the matrix of contemporary techno-social life.
作者
孙云龙
次仁卓玛
王坚
Sun Yunlong;Tsering Dolma;Wang Jian(Department of Tourism,Fudan University,Shanghai 200433,China)
出处
《热带地理》
北大核心
2026年第1期83-97,共15页
Tropical Geography
基金
国家重点研发计划资助(2023YFF0905000)。
关键词
地方感
数字地方感
系统性生成式
整合概念框架
sense of place
digital sense of place
systemically generative framework
integrative conceptual framework
