摘要：Whereas technology has been the focus of much discourse in both
public theatres and sociological arenas, comparatively little attention has
been given to the study of the ways that people actually deal with
technology as realms of human knowing and acting.
Working from a symbolic interactionist perspective (Mead 1934;
Blumer 1969) and drawing on classical Greek scholarship as well as some
interim sources, this paper addresses technology as a humanly engaged
process.
Attending to human group life as “something in the making” and
focusing on the activities entailed in encountering, using, developing,
promoting, obtaining, and resisting instances of technology, this paper
outlines a research agenda intended to foster situated (i.e. ethnographic)
examinations of technologically-engaged, humanly enacted realities. It also
serves as a reference point for assembling and comparing studies of the
technology process that deal with this set of activities.
