From Laymen to Journalists: the process of Subjectification of Those Devoted to New Media after the Sunflower Movement

• Main Authors: Chia-hui Liao, 廖家慧
• Other Authors: Chin-hwa Chang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/6hf7vd

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 新聞研究所 === 105 === This thesis analyzes how laymen had devoted to new media and empowered themselves after Sunflower Movement mainly through A. Touraine’s notion of “societal movement” and “historicity”. Meanwhile, the thesis has also rendered M. Foucault’s concept of “ethical subject” and “empowerment” to understand how they’ve constituted themselves as ethical subjects and empower themselves. The research method is in-depth interview and there are 16 interviewees including members of “New Bloom”, “LET’s News”, “TalkEcon” and “Whogovernstw”. In addition, the researcher analyzed the articles which written by the media, so that article contents and interview contents are complementary. The research concludes that the social atmosphere prompted them to be social subjects. Through organizational action, they received feedbacks from others and then affirmed their personal abilities and influences. In this thesis, “community” plays an important role on the process of subjectification, which may broaden A. Touraine and M. Foucault’s concept of subject. For these participants without professional media experiences, to manage a regular media will face some critical problems, such as journalism skills and organizational management. However, they have endeavored to render their various new media techniques and resources to achieve a distinguished position in media sphere. They struggle through multiple challenges to constitute themselves as an ethical subject, and the thesis finds that their unique path of empowerment compared to previous theories.