本文以接收分析途徑探究電視新聞如何建構八卦事件,以及閱聽眾如何解讀八卦新聞。研究結果發現,電視新聞經常以「二手報導等同真相」、「訴諸社會正義與規範」以及「塑造觀看權力」等三種意識形態來建構八卦報導。 而電視新聞閱聽眾對八卦新聞的解讀,出現對新聞產製形式與新聞內容意識形態的「雙軌式」解讀。閱聽眾對八卦新聞意識形態的解讀,可能不同於對其產製形式的解讀。最多數的閱聽眾雖然抗拒八卦新聞的產製形式,但是卻優勢解讀新聞內容的意識形態。也有部分閱聽眾對新聞產製形式採取抗拒性解讀,但是對新聞內容的意識形態則有協商空間;或者對呈現形式採取協商式解讀,但是順從新聞內容的意識形態。只有極為少數的閱聽眾既抗拒八卦新聞內容的意識形態,同時也抗拒八卦新聞的呈現形式。
This reception study examines how tabloid news stories are constructed by TV media and interpreted by audience. Based on the analysis of news-texts, three dominant ideologies were identified in tabloid television news: to formulate the ”second-hand reporting equals to truth” values, to appeal to social justice and morality, and to empower the voyeuristic cameras. For the audience reception studies, there emerged a dual-decoding mode for tabloid TV news. Most audiences criticized the production strategies used in tabloid news stories, while affirming the dominant ideologies represented in the same stories. Some audiences negotiated both the meanings of the production strategies and the news texts. Few audiences were found to resist the meaning of tabloid news assigned by the production strategies and the news texts.