技术治理的四重幻象——城市治理中的信息技术及其反思

Four Illusions of Technological Governance——Reflections on Information Technology in Urban Governance

信息技术的发展及其应用,极大地推动了城市治理的发展,也成为城市治理发展的重要内容。信息技术全面嵌入城市治理,带来了大量看得见摸得着的积极成果,也产生了许多似是而非的幻象,具体包括技术万能的幻象、技术替代的幻象、技术赋权的幻象和技术共赢的幻象。这些幻象的产生既是技术逻辑的表现和延伸,也是多元社会因素互动建构的结果。以信息技术改进和优化城市治理,必须要清醒意识到技术治理的演进逻辑及其幻象,审慎分析和理解信息技术应用的治理效果,合理界定信息技术的功能及其边界,努力消解信息化治理体系的专断思维和过度支配等。

The development and application of information technology has greatly promoted the development of urban governance. It has become an important part of urban governance development. Information technology is now fully embedded in urban governance, which leads to tangible and positive results while also produces many plausible illusions, including the illusion of technological omnipotence, the illusion of technological substitution, the illusion of technological empowerment, as well as the winwin illusion of technology. The emergence of these illusions is not only the expression and extension of technical logic, but also the result of the interactive construction of multiple social factors. To improve and optimize urban governance with information technology, it aims to raise greater awareness of the evolutionary logic and the illusions of technological governance, to carefully analyze and understand the governance effects of information technology applications, to rationally define the functions and boundaries of information technology, and to actively eliminate the arbitrary thinking and overdomination of information governance system.