青少年家用電腦使用之研究──質化研究法初探

Looking at home computing experience of Taiwanese adolescents

過去幾年，個人電腦在台灣家庭迅速蔓延。據主計處統計，民國82年家庭電腦普及率是11.8％，但是到了86年幾乎三分之一的家庭都有一台電腦了。正如電視機過去50年來進入家庭客廳，深深影響國人的家庭作息及休閒，電腦使用也正漸漸在影響我們的生活、工作、思惟等等。青少年向來是了解媒介使用的重要指標，青少年更是未來資訊社會主要的資訊使用族群，因此當他們開始在使用、熟悉電腦這個新媒介時，我們實有必要亦步亦趨累積電腦如何形塑青少年家庭生活的資料。本研究是以焦點團體及深度訪問兩研究方法，描述在網際網路興起初期，都會家庭青少年家庭電腦的使用經驗，進而解釋此一新科技，或所謂的新媒介文化，如何涉入青少年的家庭休閒生活及與家人間的人際互動，進而形成其家庭生活之行為及經驗。本研究之所以試採質化研究法，是企圖細探青少年家庭電腦使用的生活內涵(content)，例如，受訪青少年在家使用電腦的情境如何？他如何看待這個家庭新客？他如何看待這個新媒介對其家庭生活、休閒的意義？其感受如何？這些使用者內心深處的情感，不是以往實證研究所得到的統計數字能夠描述、深探得到的。

Personal computers in Taiwanese households are adopted increasingly. According to the official data, the penetrate rate of computers in household over the past four years, boosting from 11.8% in 1993 to 32.3% in 1997. Like the television set walking into the living room and change people's family live in the past 50 years, the computer consuming is gradually change our life, working, thinking etc. The adolescents are the most important indicator to understand media's influence. Furthermore, young people are the main computer users in the future information society. So, how did they shape their computer experience in the family setting when they began to access the new medium? The study described high school students' experience of home computer use by focus group and depth interview. It also intended to interpret how the new technology, or so called 'new medium culture', formed young people's family leisure life and interpersonal relationship with their families. The topics of study included, what were computer consuming physical environments of metropolitan adolescents, how the young computer users treated the new honor guests in their home, what were their feelings to consume computer as a toy at home, a medium to communicate with families and peers etc.