인터넷 역사 방법론의 논점: 기술계보학적 태도와 기술주체의 복원

This study focuses how to approach a historical study upon the Internet, which tends to have the most technologically intensified and advanced tendency among the media history studies. First of all, The present study explores how the socio-cultural histories of Internet have been done in the international and the national academia. At the level of analysis, this study suggests the following two issues to be considered, both of which have been significant but alienated from the major historiographical trends of the media histories. One aims to note the theoretical approach of the mode of existence specific to the Internet and the media materialism. The other intends to discuss the historiographical issue upon making visible the techno-subjects who have been alienated in the formal history of the Internet. With regards to the historiographical alternatives to the two issues, this study recommends both to restore a “techno-genealogical” cultural history and to draw a genealogical map of the techno-subjects’ cultural actions on history, respectively. In conclusion, this paper confirms the fact that the histographical discussions upon the media allow us to reach the critical theories of technology and further to explore the various democratic and alternative paths which would be constructed by the techno-subjects, to a mainstream history.