Technobiophilia: Nature and human interactions in the digital age

[摘要] Today, people around the world have greatly increased opportunities to interact with people and nature in virtual cyberspace. And because of the recent unprecedented disaster of covid, we are becoming more and more active in cyberspace day by day, flexibly moving between real and virtual space, and interacting with people in digital space to the extent that not a day goes by without contact with nature. And experience has shown that this has resulted in an increased attachment to nature and interest in environmental issues. The UK author, Dr Sue Thomas, presented the concept of “techno-biophilia” in 2013, which has the potential to become an important guiding principle in global environmental protection and urban development. In this perspective paper, the potential and prospects of the concept of techno-biophilia are discussed from the perspective of human interaction with nature. Rather than considering digital and real space as opposites, the paper considers the meaning of studying the effects of human-nature interaction in the 21st century space where the real and virtual merge, in a new anthropological frame of reference, and contributes to further stimulating debate.

[关键词] Technobiophilia;Digital age;Environmental citizens