Symptom Perspective: Multiple Hidden Worries under the Pan-entertainment Network in the Era of Digital Capital

Abstract

In the era of digital capital, the phenomenon of pan-entertainment on the Internet begins with the conspiring of digital capital and digital media technology. It breaks through the appropriate boundary limits of entertainment, and extends to  various fields such as politics, science and education, culture, society, and entertains many contents that should not be entertained, silently dissolves and constructs people's value identity. The atomized individuals in the network are excessively addicted to the instant pleasure and sensory stimulation brought by the pan-entertainment landscape, and fall into the dilemma of self-mutilation, aesthetic malformation, erosion of mainstream values, and loss of network morality in the fragmented and dazzling pan-entertainment landscape. In view of this problem, our criticism of the phenomenon of pan-entertainment on the Internet should not only stay at the level of describing the phenomenon, but also reveal the essence of the problem from the symptoms, so as to explore the possible correction path.