探索數位即時新聞生產之物質性的可能研究取徑

Never-ending fluidity and fragment: Exploring a Potential Research Approach to Materiality of Instant News Production

This article tries to integrate two research fields of Communication Studies, Science and Technology Studies (STS), drawing upon the idea of materiality. With investigating the roles of ＂technology＂ and ＂new communication technologies＂ embedded in the Communication Studies and Actor Network Theory (ANT), it reminds us of technology being visible, instead of being taken as background of news case-study. This research adopts the ideas from ANT, social shaping as well as co-production in STS to analyze the preliminary empirical data collected from personal in-depth interviews. It provides a further thinking of a possible approach to materiality of instant news production.