“网络社会”的概念辨析

The paper suggests that “wang luo she huei”, the same signifier in Chinese, has different “references” which still have not been distinguished. Two references for the term are defined: “the network society”, as a kind of social structure, and “cybersociety” in cyberspace. The paper analyses the relation between “network” perspective and networking logic, emphasizing the logical relation of network society and the new information technology, the interaction of physical network, virtual network and network society. The paper also analyses the chaos of signifiers of cybersociety caused by the cross cultural misunderstandings about “virtual ”and “reality”.Finally, the authers try to differentiate among informational society, network society and cybersociety.