理解技術實作：現象學取徑初探

Understanding Technological Practices: An Introduction to a Phenomenological Approach

曹家榮(Chia-Rong Tsao)

《社會分析》 7期 (2013/08) Pp. 1-43

摘要

本研究試圖提出一種現象學取徑的架構，用以理解當代技術化生活世界中人與技術物之關係，以及技術物普及所帶來的影響。此一取徑主張在「人－技術－世界」之相互關聯的基礎上，透過Ihde技術現象學的 概念以及Garfinkel俗民方法學的分析方法，說明技術物之普及所帶來的結構性影響，實際上如何在日常使用與操作技術物的實作過程中持續被建構與維繫。不同於早期技術決定論的觀點，現象學取徑能夠清楚地描繪具體實作過程中人與技術物的關係；也不同於晚近建構主義的網絡分析，此一取徑回到日常生活實際使用與操作技術物的實作中，展開另一種微觀分析的可能性。

關鍵字

人－技術－世界 ； 技術現象學 ； 技術實作 ； 俗民方法學 ； 逾越

並列摘要

This paper attempted to explicate a phenomenological approach to explore the structural influences brought by the technologies. It also could help us to understand the relationships between human and the technologies. Based on the interrelation of the ”human-technology-world,” the approach argued that the influences were not only the results of the prevalence of the technologies, but also constructed by user's continuing using-practices. In order to explicate this, the approach used the concepts of Don Ihde's phenomenology of technology and the methods of Harold Garfinkel's ethnomethodology. Thus contrasting to the earlier technological determinism, the phenomenological approach would depict more clearly the relationships between the user and the technologies in the actual processes of everyday using-practices. Also unlike the network analysis of the constructivism, the approach could unfold another possibility of micro-analysis of the interrelationships of human and the technologies by returning to the actual using-practices in everyday life.

並列關鍵字

human-technology-world ； phenomenology of technology ； technological practices ； ethnomethodology ； transgression