“旧相识”和“新重逢”:行动者网络理论与媒介(化)研究的未来——一个理论史视角

The Old Acquaintances with a Reunion: Actor-Network Theory and the Future of Media(tization) Study

本文旨在通过"威廉斯——西尔弗斯通——媒介化研究"之欧陆媒介社会学研究理论史的回顾,展现"行动者网络理论"(ANT)与媒介研究的关联的可能性。除去引言外,本文分为四个部分,在第一部分中,本文将探讨雷蒙德·威廉斯所开创的电视文化研究传统中蕴含的ANT研究视角;以此为契机,本文在第二部分进而转向西尔弗斯通的传播"驯服"研究,考察为何ANT与媒介研究"短暂邂逅";在第三部分中,本文将考察欧陆"媒介化"研究的崛起以及ANT与媒介理论在的"再次相遇";最后一部分为结语,本文将讨论ANT对未来媒介(化)研究的理论贡献。

Through the tradition of European media sociology study from Williams to Silverstone then to mediatization study,this paper aims at presenting the possibility for the connection between media study and Actor-Network-Theory(ANT).The first part of this paper will go with Williams’famous research of television and social changes.It argues that the concept of'mobile privatization'is inherently connected to ANT’s perspective of techniques.Then it will turn to Silverstone’s media domestication research and analyze why ANT has a separation with media study.The third part is consisted of the reunion between ANT and mediatization study and highlights the understanding of'moulding force'of media comes from ANT’s perspective.This paper also discuss the future of media(tization)study in terms of ANT’s theoretical contributions in the last part.