理解与解释:传播技术决定论的方法论反思  

Understanding and Interpretation:A Methodological Reflection on Technological Determinism

作　　者：方惠 Hui Fang

机构地区：[1]暨南大学新闻与传播学院

出　　处：《新媒体与社会》2024年第2期200-211,M0013,共13页New Media and Society

基　　金：国家社会科学基金青年项目“媒介记忆视角下香港通识教科书的国家认同研究”(项目编号:21CXW021)。

摘　　要：在传播学领域,技术决定论的幽灵时时飘荡。本文将“技术决定论”作为一个学术讨论的关键词,考察了其符号体系,借用哲学家冯·赖特的行动理论,尝试从人文—自然科学和方法论中的“理解与解释”争论去理解围绕传播技术决定论的种种争议。本文认为,剑桥学派的思想史路径更为契合前文所述的技术决定论研究的方法论需求。它能够让我们意识并警惕既有范式的束缚,搁置纠缠不清的名实之争,转而去关注话语背后的意涵。此外,剑桥学派思想史方法提醒我们关注知识生产的不同范式及其规则,进而在理论与实践、语言和行动之间建立关联。In the field of communication,technological determinism is a haunting presence.This article attempts to understand technological determinism based on‘understanding and interpretation'in the humanities and natural sciences draws on the philosopher von Wright's action theory.This paper argues that the Cambridge School's approach to the history of ideas is more suited to the methodological needs of technological determinism research described above.It allows us to be aware of and alert to the constraints of established paradigms,to set aside the tangled debate over name and reality,and to focus instead on the meanings behind the discourse.Furthermore,the Cambridge School approach to the history of ideas reminds us of the different paradigms of knowledge production and their rules,and thus makes connections between theory and practice,language and action.

关 键 词：技术决定论 理解与解释 符号体系 剑桥学派 

分 类 号：G206[文化科学—传播学]