真實與虛構之混成：以印尼華裔婦女受暴事件為例

The Blending of Fact with Fiction: A Case Study on the 1998 Rape Incident of Indonesia Chinese Women

吳筱玫(Hsiao-Mei Wu)

《新聞學研究》 95期 (2008/04) Pp. 111-143

https://doi.org/10.30386/MCR.200804_(95).0003

摘要

本文以十年前印尼華裔婦女受暴事件中之照片事件為例，透過三種不同時期的文本相互比較，試圖揭露網路的文本特質與其對歷史書寫之影響。研究發現，原始文本以超連結之照片為重要證詞，這些超連結已然失效，使原始文本不再具有原真性，而主流媒體《聯合報》之專家文本與搜尋引擎Google之群眾文本，其所呈現的真實面貌有著極大的不同，前者四平八穩，後者則極盡悲情之能事。Google之文本分析發現，群眾之歷史書寫與專家截然不同，造假的恐怖照片成為書寫的重要依據。當原真性消逝，我們難以辨別真偽，歷史便成了真實與虛構之混成，在一群寫眾引領之下，以文本間之比較互動為新的權力機制，一種精神分析式的歷史書寫策略，也隱然浮現。

關鍵字

歷史書寫 ； 文本性 ； 真實 ； 虛構 ； 原真性 ； 寫眾

並列摘要

This study attempted to explore the impacts of web textuality on the writing of history. Using the 1998 rape photo incident of Indonesia Chinese women as an example, three kinds of texts, the original, the mainstream newspaper, and those from the general public were compared. The analyses of the results indicated that since those brutal pictures being hyperlinked to the online forum of the United Morning Psot of Singapore were all removed from the linking websites, the original text from the forum at the same time lost its authenticity. The historical testimonies provided by the United Daily News of Taiwan and the Google search engine were very different by nature. The former one was relatively remote and objective, but the latter one acknowledged that those brutal pictures could play a crucial role in online historical construction of reality. Due to the writing of history involved a blending of fact and fiction, the authenticity of the story itself declined as well. Employing comparison and interaction among online texts has become the new mechanism for testimonial power, and using a psychoanalysis strategy instead of a historiographic one has also become the trend of writing history.

並列關鍵字

historical writing ； textuality ； fact ； fiction ； authenticity ； writing public

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