技术归化:理解用户与产品关系的关键视角

技术归化是20世纪90年代从文化与传媒研究领域引入技术论研究的新概念,它把握住了用户在技术消费使用过程中的能动性,为理解用户与产品关系提供了关键的视角。技术归化是指将技术产品融入到应用环境,使其成为用户所处实践与文化网络一部分的过程。技术归化是一个学习与赋予意义的过程,正是通过技术归化,技术产品的社会文化价值才得以形成。对一项技术进行归化的集体过程既可能导致技术根深蒂固,难以排除,也可能使地位确立的技术"祛稳定化",后者提供了一种打破技术锁定,摆脱路径依赖的可能途径。

Domestication of Technology:a Key View Angle for Understanding the User-Product Relationship

"Domestication of technology" is a new concept which was introduced into technology studies from culture and media studies in the 1990s.It seizes the subjective initiative of users in their consumption processes and thus provide a key view angle for understanding the user-product relationship.Domestication of technology refers to the process through which technological products merged into their application background and become part of the practical and cultural network where the user locates.Domestication of technology is a process of learning and giving meaning through which the social and cultural values of technological products are forming.The collective act of domesticating a technology may lead to its entrenchment and thus make it hard to root it out.However,it may also cause the destabilization of an established technology and thus provide us a possible approach to breakout technological lock-in and to get rid of path dependence.