A Study on the Association between Political Media and Perceived Political Efficacy Among Taiwanese Military Cadets- Exemplified by Fu Hsing Kang College at the National Defense University

臺灣軍校生政治媒介與政治效能感關聯性之研究－以國防大學政戰學院為例

張育君(Yu-Chun Chang) ； 范宏宙(Hung-Chuo Fan)

《復興崗學報》 115期 (2019/12) Pp. 185-218

摘要

In Taiwan, there have been many student movements that have caused widespread societal discourse. In addition to deepening college students' knowledge concerning political issues, the students have gradually come to understand their own rising importance in the process of political and social participation. In the current era of innovation and smart phones, new media hopes to become the type of media that this generation of university students will turn to for political news. Additionally, due to political media's influence, university students began to care more about politics, and their perception of their own political efficacy was improved. This thesis will focus on college-aged students from Taiwanese military schools and obtain information about media use that provides political knowledge, the level of attention that the students pay to politics, and the changes that occur in relation to the increase in students' perceived political efficacy through the use of questionnaire-style surveys. Further, it will analyze the differences between Taiwanese military cadets and regular Taiwanese university students regarding socioeconomic background and perception of political effectiveness. This study has found that no matter what kind of political media military cadets intend to use or how much attention they pay to the information that they acquire through the media, television is the most popular and impactful, internet is the second most effective and impactful, and newspaper is the third most popular and impactful. Political television shows and radio broadcasts are less popular. In addition, military cadets are sure of their own ability to understand politics but believe that the government does not care about their opinions, and they also have little faith in their own ability to impact policy. In other words, military cadets' perception of their own political effectiveness in the internal sense is high, but it is low in the external sense.

關鍵字

Political media ； Perception of political efficacy ； Military cadets

並列摘要

臺灣近來發生不少引起社會廣泛討論的學生運動，這些學生運動的整體歷程，透過媒體的報導，除加深大學生對政治議題的瞭解，也逐漸意識到自己在政治社會的參與過程中越趨重要。在創意高掛的時代潮流，以及人手一支智慧型手機的狀況下，新媒體欲成為大學世代關注政治新聞的主要媒介，當然，透過政治媒介的影響，大學生也將更關注政治事物及增加其政治效能感。本文聚焦於同屬大學生年齡層之臺灣軍校生，以問卷調查方式獲取渠等政治知識的媒介使用情況、注意程度，以及其延伸之政治效能感的相關變化，並進一步分析臺灣軍校生與一般大學生的社會背景與政治效能感之間的差異。研究發現軍校生不論是政治新聞的使用媒介，或是藉由這些媒介取得訊息時的注意程度，其順序為「電視、網路、報紙」等，至於政論節目與廣播則普遍較低；另外，軍校生肯定自己瞭解政治的能力，並認為政府不在乎其看法也不認為自己對政策具有影響力，換言之，軍校生的內在效能感高，外在效能感則較低。

並列關鍵字

政治媒介 ； 政治效能感 ； 軍校生