″Realism″, a category with rich connotations and strong word formation ability, can be examined from various perspectives, three of which are consciousness, media, and sci fi. The content positioning of realism may be related to consciousness, and it is related to people′s ideas about what reality exists, how to view reality, and how to transform reality. In the new media era, it is connected with such historical phenomena as the outbreak of the fifth information revolution, the popularity of post human concepts, and the rise of information art. Realism may be associated with the medium in its formal orientation. It presupposes the following understandings: reality manifests its existence through media intermediary, media manifests its function by mirroring reality, and reality and media fuse the old and bring forth the new. Realism may be related to science fiction in its functional orientation. The related propositions mainly include: there is a science fiction reality that is different from the reality of life, and science fiction reality should be viewed in a timetravel way, and science fiction reality should be created through interactive construction.
Consciousness, Media and SciFi: A Multidimensional Examination of Realism. Journal of Guangzhou University (Social Science Edition). 2023, 22(3): 65-81