「流動的」手機：液態現代性的時空架構與群已關係

＂Mobile＂ Phones: The Time/Space and Society/Individual in the Liquid Modernity

本研究試圖透過行動電話的技術特性及液態現代性的社會文化脈絡，來理解行動電話普及所帶來的影響。本研究主張，行動電話的技術特性乃是「即刻連結性」（instant connectivity），而液態現代性的文化脈絡則是存在於個人與社會、自由與安全之間的「愛恨交織」（ambivalence）。透過這兩個觀點的互動，本研究指出，「永恆聯繫」的概念不足以用以理解行動電話普及所帶來的影響。以此為基礎，本研究試圖更深入地剖析時空軟化、公私交錯與雙面舞台，以及個人與社群之間流變不定的關係等現象。

This paper attempts to understand the impact of mobile phones by taking note of both the technological characteristics of mobile phones and the culture of the liquid modernity. Our contention is that the quality of ＂instant connectivity＂ of mobile phones and the ＂ambivalence＂ between individual and society beneath the liquid modernity jointly bring about the phenomena which cannot be explicated by ＂perpetual contact＂. These phenomena we attempt to investigate include the softening of time/space frameworks, the blurring of the demarcation between public and private spheres, and the fluidity of the relations between individual and society.