媒介化、行動化：媒介化理論與行動者網絡理論的對話

Actor-Network-Theory as a middle range methodology for mediatization research: The dialogue between mediatization theory and ANT

方念萱(Nien-Hsuan Fang)

《傳播文化與政治》 4期 (2016/12) Pp. 55-83

摘要

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。

關鍵字

中程理論 ； 全景 ； 行動者網絡理論 ； 媒介化

並列摘要

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.

並列關鍵字

actor-network-theory ； medialization ； middle-range theory ； panorama