媒介化、行動化：媒介化理論與行動者網絡理論的對話

Actor-Network-Theory as a middle range methodology for mediatization research: The dialogue between mediatization theory and ANT

This article begins with Andreas Hepp's defining mediatization as a metaprocess and as panorama. Panorama is introduced by adopting Latour's Actor-Network-Theory and as the alternative to the traditional totality, panorama is compared and contrasted with oligoptica and together they help to paint a different picture of wholeness. Mediatization theory is questioned in how its wholeness can be empirically analyzed. Besides this, the questionable discriminatory power and the dubious non-causal implication of the concept mediatization are also debated. Actor-Network-Theory is then again proposed as to enlighten the possible synchronous mediatization research. Middle-ranged or not, ANT does function as the workbench on which mediatization researchers can build the conceptual tools needed to conduct research that nesting macro-, meso-, and micro-level into one another.