“外籍新娘”現象之媒體建構

The Media Construction of the "Foreign Brides" Phenomenon

夏曉鵑(Hsiao-Chuan Hsia)

《台灣社會研究季刊》 43期 (2001/09) Pp. 153-196

https://doi.org/10.29816/TARQSS.200109.0008

摘要

經尚分析媒體報導的敘事策略，本文解構了「外籍新娘」現象作為一客觀「社會問題」的合法性，指出「社會問題」是一種詮釋工夫，其形塑需藉用各種有效的敘事策略。台灣媒體透過相互抄襲的報導內容，輔之以官方說法、捏造的統計數據、模稜兩可的文句，將「外藉新娘」現象定性為社會問題，其中女人的形象或為無可奈何的受害者，或為唯利是圖的吸血鬼，並常與外國人犯罪畫上等號；而跨國婚姻中的男性則被形塑為「社會所不欲者」：肢體或精神殘障、道德卑劣的騙徒與沙豬。除了媒體文本分析之外，經由行動研究中親身與媒體工作者交手的經驗，本文分析媒體建構過程的權力運作，指出媒體是新聞過濾器，產製過程即是消音的過程，因而提醒「事實」的社會建構是充滿權力鬥爭而非是人人可參與的詮釋遊戲。

關鍵字

外籍新娘 ； 媒體建構 ； 社會問題作品

並列摘要

Based on the narrative analysis of the media reports of the ”foreign brides” phenomenon, this paper argues that ”social problem” is a product of ”interpretative work” accomplished by various effective narrative strategies. By overlapping media coverage, collaboration with governmental agencies, fabricated statistics and equivocal wording, the Taiwanese media construct the ”foreign brides” phenomenon as a social problem. The brides are portrayed either as passive victims or materialist blood-suckers, and prone to committing crimes, while the bridegrooms are portrayed as the ”socially undesirable,” that is, physically or mentally disabled, and deceivers and sexists. In addition to the content analysis of the media reports, my personal interaction with media workers in the course of doing action research, helps deepen the analysis into the dynamic process of media construction, revealing the power struggles over reality construction. It shows that media is a news filter and the process of making the news is the process of silencing. It hence suggests that social construction of reality is a power struggle rather than democratic interpretive work.

並列關鍵字

foreign brides ； media construction ； social problem work

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