为何截屏:从屏幕摄影到媒介化生活

Screenshots as Object: From Screen Photography to Mediatizied Life

技术从被需要、被设计、被使用到成为一种战术工具的过程,成为日常生活媒介化的一个微观缩影。从"拍摄屏幕"到"用屏幕拍摄"的技术演变过程,展现了截屏"可复制""可存储""分享性"和"瞬发性"的可供性。当下应用程序、图像编辑技术与媒介平台在相互交织、嵌套的过程中,又创造出了超越截屏设计者所预期的应用方式。截屏为物的行为不仅催生了文字图像化、集屏审美、权限转移、语境崩塌等现象产生,还成为管理与被管理者、平台与用户间围绕屏幕进行权力对抗的重要战术工具。对截屏的媒介考古有助于发现来自于其实体前身的物质性隐喻,对个体的多媒材组织策略的观察兼顾到使用者的能动性,二者结合成为数字技术物研究的新路径。

The process of technology from being needed,designed,used and becoming a tactical tool is a microcosm of the mediatization of everyday life.The historical evolution from"shooting the screen"to"shooting with the screen"shows the affordance of screenshots that are"reproducible","storable","shareable",and"instantaneous".The intertwining and nesting of current applications,image editing technologies and media platforms have created technological applications that go beyond the expectations of screenshot designers.The act of screenshot as object has not only given rise to phenomena such as the pictorialization of text,the aestheticization of the screenshot set,the transfer of authority,and the collapse of context,but has also become an important tactical tool in the confrontation of power around the screen between the manager and the managed,and between the platform and the user.The media archaeology of screenshots helps to discover material metaphors from their physical predecessors,and the observation of individual multi-media organizational strategies takes into account the users’activism,and the combination of the two becomes a new path for the study of digital technology objects.