The Representation of Foreign Brides from Southeast Asia -Analyses of Press Media and Blog

• Main Authors: Kuan-Chen Su, 蘇冠甄
• Other Authors: Shin-Jui Tung
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/27615751879504030083

碩士 === 國立中興大學 === 農業推廣教育研究所 === 94 === This study is to explore the representation of images and social status toward Southeast Asia foreign brides in print media and blogs in Taiwan. Articles on newspapers and web blogs are recruited to be analyzed in light of narrative analysis, argumentative structure and interpretation. The findings revealed that the represented images of foreign brides in the news events have apparently shifted from the “silent social troublemakers” to the protestants standing out against the social stigmatization. Under the depictions of bloggers, foreign brides have gradually shed the old images and endeavored to establish new ones as priceless social assets in future. In addition, their social status has been exhibited as real “the Self”, instead of “the exotic other”. Comparatively, foreign brides show much less voice in blogs, in which people are supposed to possess full right to voice themselves, than in newspaper. Though everyone has the right to declare in blogs, language barrier and cultural maladjustment very likely prevents the tremendous foreign brides from using this public tool. Most foreign brides seem to get no accessibility and the digital gap is significant. Either in Journalism or Blogs, in essence, the spirits of multicultural consilience and mutual respect are fermenting in Taiwan. The emergent voices from Blog space have broken the rule of traditional one-way thinking. Besides, diverse images and social positions of foreign brides are represented apparently in this mutli-communication channels context.