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在電腦前面做田野：人類學家與報導人的線上／線下互動

摘要

COVID-19 疫情使得人們的生活大規模往線上移動，當國境封鎖，人們以社交距離以及遠距工具重新打造新的社會生活之際，也讓人類學家的田野不可避免的走入數位的領域裡，興起一股線上做田野的風潮。作為一個以數位政治與黑客文化為核心命題的人類學家，這股風潮既讓人興奮，也讓人省思。究竟，線上的田野方法與線下的田野工作有何異同？數位空間裡的社群有文化嗎？有社會嗎？虛擬與實體、線上與線下是可以二分的嗎？甚至，數位民族誌即是線上民族誌嗎？ 我將以我自身實踐數位民族誌的經驗，佐以其它數位民族誌的文獻來探究何謂數位民族誌，而數位民族誌又能對人類學的民族誌傳統帶來哪些再思考。我將提出三個命題：一、數位民族誌作為後人類（posthuman）的探問，打破線上／線下、虛擬／實體、物／人的簡單二分；二、數位民族誌的田野地是動態生成（emergent and becoming）的網狀結構（meshwork），它拒絕被輕易地全景繪製，而是邀請人類學家走入其中探索、漫行；三、數位民族誌號召一種協作式的（collaborative）民族誌關係，只有當參與其中，民族誌故事才會從資料活過來成為相互交織的關係與互動。

關鍵字：數位民族誌、後人類、網狀結構（meshwork）、協作

Abstract

“It is so good to hear your voice, Eric.” My informant shed tears when talking to me about her agricultural movement experiences (again) through a Whatsapp call. As a native anthropologist remote from my hometown, Hong Kong, I have been “revisiting” this fieldsite once or twice every year between 2012 and 2016, and also 2018 and 2019. Afterwards, I was unable to be there for different reasons. Whereas, I have been maintaining my guanxi network with my informants in Hong Kong’s local agricultural movement. Such network is not only pragmatic in terms of data collection, but also drawing anthropologists’ attention to guanxi and reciprocity again. This article discusses the extent that guanxi influences informants’ and my mutual rapport as well as the form of reciprocity existing and changing in the online setting. I argue for exploring new scopes of virtual fieldwork without giving up the basic anthropological concepts.

Keywords：guanxi, Hong Kong, virtual fieldwork