技术的应许与脆弱不安的生命:残障者的互联网工作实践

林仲轩, 杨柳

国际新闻界 ›› 2021, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (8) : 105-123.

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国际新闻界 ›› 2021, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (8) : 105-123.
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技术的应许与脆弱不安的生命:残障者的互联网工作实践

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The Promise of Technology and the Precarious Lives: Disabled People’s Practices of Internet Work

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互联网等信息通讯技术与残障者脆弱不安生命境况之间的关系问题,是互联网研究与残障研究交叉领域兼具现实关怀与理论观照的重要研究问题。因此,本研究聚焦中国特定语境下残障者互联网工作的在地实践,探索如何从残障者视角剖析技术应许与脆弱生命之间的内在张力。基于三年多的田野观察和近百名残障工作者的深度访谈,本研究既呈现了互联网给予残障者的技术应许,也展现了技术赋能之下残障者脆弱不安的境况。具体研究发现:需要从工作与赚钱的物质层面以及价值与关系的意义层面,理解技术应许对中国残障者特殊的深层意义,也需要在脆弱不安的普遍共性问题之上,从情感压力和忍耐主体的精神层面,理解残障者特殊的生命体验和主体生成,进而理解我们自己,理解这个时代。

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The relationship between information and communication technologies (ICTs) like the Internet and the precarious conditions of disabled people is an important research issue with practical concerns and theoretical implications in the intersection of Internet research and disability studies. Situated in China’s specific context, therefore, this study focuses on disabled people’s local practices of Internet work, to explore the research question that how to examine the relationship between the promise of technology and the precarious conditions of disabled people. Based on field observations for more than three years and in-depth interviews with nearly one hundred disabled workers, this study demonstrates not only the promise of technology of the Internet to disabled people, but also the precarious conditions of disabled people despite the technological empowerment. Specifically, the research findings suggest that we need to understand the special meaning of technological promises to Chinese disabled people from both the material perspective of having a job and making money and the meaning perspective of value and relationship. We also need to go beyond the common problems of precarity to understand disabled people’s special life experience and subjectivity formation from the spiritual perspective of emotional pressure and suffering subject, thus finally understanding ourselves and our time.

关键词

信息通讯技术 / 脆弱不安 / 国家治理 / 残障 / 互联网

Key words

information and communication technology / precarity / state governing / disability / Internet

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林仲轩, 杨柳. 技术的应许与脆弱不安的生命:残障者的互联网工作实践[J]. 国际新闻界. 2021, 43(8): 105-123
LIN Zhongxuan, YANG Liu. The Promise of Technology and the Precarious Lives: Disabled People’s Practices of Internet Work[J]. Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication. 2021, 43(8): 105-123
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国家社科基金青年项目“技术赋能与残障人群体的社会融入研究”(19CXW037)

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