Scopic Media: Synthetic Actors, Institutions and Variations of Synthetic Situations

范围媒体是显示和监控技术，它将遥远的事件和活动视觉投射到社会情境中。它们在信息上、认识上（允许对信息进行进一步的科学处理）和互动上（允许远距离互动）增强了情境。范围媒体将社会学的一个基本概念-面对面的情况-转变为一种“综合情况”，这种情况被信息和通信技术的组成部分所丰富。我们的中心问题是：（1）一个基本社会学概念的这种中介化形式如何在不同领域得到表达;（2）社会情境的概念如何适应它的大规模中介化;（3）合成情境的哪些理论和经验特征在这个过程中出现。拟议的研究项目将调查从面对面的微观层面转移到中间和机构层面。它探讨了当视觉媒介使这些功能被挑选和放置到合成情境中时，合成情境如何变得比“赤裸裸”的面对面情境更高级。它提出了以下问题：1）社会情境是否可以成为制度实现的场所; 2）综合行动者如何出现以及他们的存在如何改变我们对互动秩序的概念; 3）注意整合的概念是否可以被视为中介化世界中整合的基本机制;最后，我们可以从各个领域收集的经验证据中系统地和理论地学习什么，以便“更新”我们生活的社会日益全球化，日益中介化，社会状况的社会学概念。

Scopic media are display and monitoring technologies which visually project distant events and activities into social situations. They enhance the situation informationally, epistemically (they allow further scientific processing of the information) and interactionally (they allow interaction at a distance). Scopic media transform a basic concept of sociology, the face-to-face situation, into a "synthetic situation" enriched by information and communication technology components. Our central questions are i) how this form of mediatization of a basic sociological concept becomes articulated across domains, ii) how the notion of the social situation can be adapted to its massive mediatization; iii) and which theoretical and empirical characteristics of synthetic situations emerge in the process. The proposed research project shifts the level of investigation from the micro-level of the face-to-face situation to the meso- and institutional level. It investigates how the synthetic situation becomes upgraded compared to the "naked" face-to-face situation for institutional and actorial functions when scopic media make it possible for these functions to be picked and placed into synthetic situations. It asks 1) if the social situation can become a locus of institutional realization; 2) how synthetic actors emerge and how their presence changes our concept of the interaction order; 3) if the notion of attentional integration can be seen as a basic mechanism of integration in a mediatized world; and finally 4) what we can learn systematically and theoretically from the empirical evidence collected in a variety of domains in order to "update" the sociological notion of the social situation for the increasingly global and increasingly mediatized societies in which we live.