透视“盲”点:视障者的另类媒介经验及其悖论

Illuminating“Blind”Points:The Alternative Media Experience of Visually Impaired People and Its Paradoxes

视障人群因视力受损而遭遇诸多社会问题,他们的媒介经验在以视觉为主导的媒介化社会中成为研究盲点。本文尝试从具身性的视角入手,考察视障者的媒介经验问题。研究发现,视力障碍并没有截除视障者的身体经验,通过感官转换与媒介技术的辅助实现了功能代偿,在特定生活情境下培育出另类的身体感知方式与具身化的媒介经验,但这一另类经验在“数字盲道”的使用过程中遭遇了多重困境。数字媒介技术背后暗含着更深层面的社会文化障碍,这一发现将有助于我们反思针对特殊群体数字困境的技术赋能框架。

Visually impaired people are usually regarded as"incomplete"because of their impaired vision.Their media experience has become a blind spot in the visually oriented mediatized society.Relying on the perspective of"embodiment",this paper focuses on the media experience and digital lives of visually impaired people.It finds that visual impairment does not cut off the physical experience,and they have realized compensation through sensory transformation.Meanwhile,with the assistance of digital media technology,they cultivate an alternative bodily perception and media experience which encounters multiple dilemmas on the"Digital Tactile Paving".The paper shows that the accessibility of technology implies deeper social-cultural barriers,which contributing to reflect on the deep logic of dominant technological empowerment frame of the social disadvantaged group.