本文的目的,在於討論現實/真實的概念在媒體八卦文化中的運作,同時思考媒體八卦文化如何收編、佔用、破壞或挑戰了現實/真實的概念,以及人們對現實/真實的理解。本文一方面從淫穢、魅惑的媒體情境作為對此真實理解的切入點,指出八卦文化收編了人們明知的「真實/真相」難以企及,卻又無法背離的渴望;它佔用媒體可以還原真相的社會想像,卻往往辜負了這個呈現真實的期望,反將其帶進迷離模糊的超真實裡。在另一方面,本文將媒體八卦文化詮釋為一種意識型態在不同社會「真實」的界域間遊走運作的、複雜弔詭的機制。它可能掩飾了社會對立本質中權力的區隔運作,卻又在同時揭發了社會整合(的假象)中追求「一致性」真實的無謂與徒勞。
This essay aims to deliberate upon how the concept of ”reality” operates in media tabloid, and to examine how media tabloid incorporate, appropriate, challenge or redefine people's perception of reality. It delves into the interpretation of reality through the concepts of obscenity, fascination and hyper-reality. Meanwhile, this essay considers media tabloid as a complex mechanism of ideology, the spectre of ideology. This mechanism may disguise the power distribution in social antagonism, but at the same time disclose the for ever futility of social pursuit of consistency and totalization.