This article outlines a sociological agenda for the era of “tech,” a period when digital technologies have come to dominate our social lives. It argues that we should break “tech” down into two parts, the production side and the consumption side. The production side concerns the ways in which these technologies are made, the social actors involved on the design, financing, and production side, and the consumption side refers to the ways in which ordinary users make use of these technologies and the ways in which their use is transforming everyday life. The article maintains that this is an area of research to which sociologists need to pay much greater attention if they are to understand the contemporary world satisfactorily.

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科技时代的社会学议程

本文概述了“技术”时代的社会学议程，在这个时代，数字技术已经主宰了我们的社会生活。它认为我们应该将“技术”分为两部分，生产端和消费端。生产端涉及这些技术的制造方式，涉及设计、融资和生产端的社会行为者，消费端是指普通用户使用这些技术的方式以及他们使用这些技术的方式。使用正在改变日常生活。文章认为，社会学家若要令人满意地理解当代世界，就需要更加关注这一研究领域。