From Public Sphere to Public Television: An Analysis of Political Talk Show in Public Television

• Main Authors: Chung-Jung Chiu, 丘忠融
• Other Authors: Ti Wei
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/39436597835809103653

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 大眾傳播學系碩士班 === 93 === In order to discover the ways of improving the democratic function of Taiwan’s television talk shows, the thesis attempts to build an analytical framework based on Habermas’ theory of public sphere to analyze on and make a comparison between the performances of public talk shows of three countries’ public television services, the Public Television Service of Taiwan (PTS), the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). By literature review and information collecting, Question Time of the BBC and Insider of the ABC are selected as representative programs and as the referents of two main political talk programs of PTS. For approaching the conclusion, thesis the methods of text analysis, discourse analysis, and in-depth interview are used. In conclusion, some key operational and production features of Question Time and Insider display and enhance the ideas of public sphere, such as the process of selecting guests, the arrangement of the topic, the structure of the program, and the tactics to create an ideal situation of communication and debate. The PTS ought to take these practices as important references and to contribute on the realization of the local public spheres. However, the limited budget and scale of the PTS would be one of the major difficulties to copy the production models of Question Time and Insider. The thesis thus concludes that a transformation of the PTS from a single-channel service to a multi-channel broadcasting system with more resources would be necessary.