理解Y2K危機：科技－人文感知結構的揭露

Abstract

This paper aims to make an example of research practicing in the Phenomenological domain to enrich the CMC studies. This research is grounded on a ”computerized society” developed by Lyotard as a methodological base, and on the Y2K crisis as the critical case. The author tries to reveal the ”perception structure of 'technology-humanity' ”. Via Kuhn's concept of paradigms and Beck's concept of a risk society, we can explain the sense of absurdity caused by the Y2K crisis. As we understand the origin of the sense of absurdity, we can be released from it. The everyday experience thus replaces the theoretical framework and becomes the central of understanding.