Social Welfare Group, Supervision Institute, New Media: An Exploratory Research of Taiwan Reportage after 2010

• Main Authors: Cheng, Yu-Hao, 鄭羽皓
• Other Authors: Chen, Chih-Fan
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/c4v97e

碩士 === 國立清華大學 === 台灣文學研究所 === 106 === This paper takes “sociality” as the starting point to re-examine the various issues of reportage based on the concept of Weber’s social action”. It considers reportage literature as an action ith obvious social intentions, both as a medium and a strategy for social movement, and often in association with actual social action. This research refers to several studies on reportage from the perspective of social movements, focusing on a more substantive social viewpoint, placing greater importance on actions and backgrounds beyond the text, and exploring several issues from the social aspects of reportage.This thesis discusses three recent reportage books featuring a high degree of sociality—16: Who Let the Teenager End His Life in Pain and Fear (16: Shi shui rang shaonian daizhe tongku yu jupa zouwan tade rensheng); Silence:Collective Sexual Abuse in a Special Education School in Taiwan (Chenmo: Taiwan mou tejiao xuexiao jiti xingqin shijian); and Fraudery, Exploitation, and Floating Sweatshop: The Bloody Truth Behind Taiwan’s Distant Water Fishery. Sociality plays a noticeable role in these publications, in the form of specific social institutions or individuals in the environmental context—members of the Control Yuan, the Humanistic Education Foundation, and the new media The Reporter. The books center on social events that attracted media attention and effectively led to structural reforms prior to or following their publication. They can be regarded as an appeal to the government and the public, and a part of a realistic social movement. This thesis devotes one chapter to each of the three books. Each chapter contains subsections covering the background of the book, text analysis and news effect, and discussions on literary issues. The content of each book is examined in relation to the external environment from the sociality perspective before the key issues of reportage are finally discussed. Other relevant reportages for each of the books are also scrutinized, including Control Yuan reportage series, Humanities Education series, and investigative reports by The Reporter. For the purpose of this study, news effect refers to the impact produced by media coverage of an event as well as publication of the related book. Each chapter concludes with a discussion on issues related to the reportage, including contemporary “official” reportage, the literary and social nature of reportage, as well as its academic nature and boundaries. These issues are identified through research of the three publications and their contextual background, with the purpose of exploring areas that were overlooked in previous reportage studies, an aim to reorganizing the concept and original intent of reportage from a sociality perspective, and the hope of introducing a new vision and interpretation for this genre.