篇名 | 媒介化、行動化:媒介化理論與行動者網絡理論的對話 |
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卷期 | 4 |
並列篇名 | Actor-Network-Theory as a middle range methodology for mediatization research: The dialogue between mediatization theory and ANT |
作者 | 方念萱 |
頁次 | 055-085 |
關鍵字 | 中程理論 、 全景 、 行動者網絡理論 、 媒介化 、 actor-network-theory 、 medialization 、 middle-range theory 、 panorama |
出刊日期 | 201612 |
本文從Hepp 論述媒介化理論與行動者網絡理論的相關性切入, 檢視行動者網絡理論中「全景」這概念,藉以廓清宣稱不再區分不同 建制、而要研究整體(totality)的媒介化理論所謂的整體可能為何。 之後藉由耙梳有關理論層次、實證分析可能性等的相關辯論,審視媒 介化理論層次,從而找出媒介化理論所說的過程為何以及可以採行的 研究路數。最後,從行動者網絡理論檢視、分析媒介化此一方興未艾 的理論、研究取徑,思考未來媒介化研究「行動化」(actor-ing)、 「行動者網絡化」(actor-networking)的可能性與挑戰。
This article begins with Andreas Hepp's defining mediatization as a metaprocess and as panorama. Panorama is introduced by adopting Latour's Actor-Network-Theory and as the alternative to the traditional totality, panorama is compared and contrasted with oligoptica and together they help to paint a different picture of wholeness. Mediatization theory is questioned in how its wholeness can be empirically analyzed. Besides this, the questionable discriminatory power and the dubious non-causal implication of the concept mediatization are also debated. Actor-Network-Theory is then again proposed as to enlighten the possible synchronous mediatization research. Middle-ranged or not, ANT does function as the workbench on which mediatization researchers can build the conceptual tools needed to conduct research that nesting macro-, meso-, and micro-level into one another.