提出“EPS循环说”的美国学者梅里尔和洛温斯坦认为,人类文化发展史若以传播方式来划分,大致可分为精英文化(E)、大众文化(P)、专业文化(S)三个阶段。目前普遍认为,文化发展已处在大众文化阶段的尾声。新媒体技术的发展,即将带领人类文化跨入第三阶段:专业文化阶段。 Merrill and Lowenstein, the American scholar who put forward the “EPS cycle theory,” think that if the history of human culture is divided by means of transmission, it can be divided into elite culture (E), popular culture (P), professional culture )three phases. It is now generally accepted that cultural development is already at the end of popular culture. The development of new media technology is about to lead the human culture into the third stage: the professional culture stage.