校準正典歷史：媒介考古學式的媒介研究

Making the Invisible Visible: Illuminating the Hidden Histories of the Media Through Media-Archaeological Approaches

張惠嵐(Chang, Hui-Lan)

《傳播研究與實踐》 11卷1期 (2021/01) Pp. 207-239

https://doi.org/10.6123/JCRP.202101_11(1).0009

摘要

本文評介《媒介考古學：方法、路徑與意涵》（Erkki Huhtamo與Jussi Parikka編）一書。該書收錄，諸如：恩斯特、帕瑞卡以及皮亞斯等人之作，旨在闡述媒介考古學式的研究，婉拒以線性進步的歷史敘事觀來理解媒介，而是更加強調媒介的物質基礎，並將其與媒介文化的條件聯繫起來。架構分四部分，首先，闡述媒介考古學，是一浮現中的「論述旅行」學科，其核心精神與媒體取證觀、基礎設施研究等多重論理基礎相呼應。第二，介紹本書結構與內容。第三，闡述文化技術概念，如何幫助媒介考古學挖掘更古老的媒介。第四，本文建議媒介考古學應考慮「媒介即網絡」以及「網絡即媒介」的概念，從更為考古學式的視角來理解媒介。

關鍵字

媒介考古學 ； 成為媒介 ； 物質結構 ； 文化技術 ； 網絡式

並列摘要

This article reviews Media Archaeology: Approaches, Applications, and Implications (Erkki Huhtamo and Jussi Parikka Eds.), part of volume from Wolfgang Ernst, Jussi Parikka, Claus Pias, et al. Their scholarly works adopt archaeological approaches that rejected linear narratives to understand the study of media; they instead emphasized more on the material underpinning of media as well as related the media study to the conditions of media culture. This article is divided into four parts. First, the paper introduces to how to think of media archaeology as discursive travelling that emerges from the field of media as well as sets out to illuminate its core idea resonating with the various theoretical positions as well, e.g., media forensics, infrastructure studies, and platform studies. Second, the article examines each chapter in this edited volume and further illuminates its argumentation concretely. Third, in the light of this materialistic epistemology, the paper thus extends into discussions regarding how the media archaeology excavated the ＂historical media＂ with the concept of cultural technique. Finally, this article suggests that media archaeology should take the notions of ＂media as networks＂ as well as ＂networks as media＂ into consideration for understanding media more archaeologically in contemporary society and culture.

並列關鍵字

media archaeology ； becoming-media ； material structure ； cultural technique ； media as networks

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