| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 圖書資訊學研究所 === 107 === This study investigated early and recent news reports on typhoons and typhoon-related disasters released by United Daily News from the perspectives of language construction, core meanings, and reporting trends; the news reports were respectively from an early and a recent period: Jan. 1, 1986–Dec. 31, 1996 and Jan. 1, 2006–Dec. 31. 2016.
This study employed the text mining and frame analysis methods and studied the “frame” trends of news media over the past three decades. An analysis of the language construction of the news reports revealed that, concerning the subject of surveillance, a special emphasis was placed on soil and water ecology in the early period; and the negligence of government officials, engineering project results, preventive refuge, and disaster reconstruction in the recent period. Regarding social communication, a special emphasis was placed in the recent period on utilizing the opinions of different social “actors” on typhoon-related disasters to highlight the conflicts with and violations of norms and human rights. In addition, the news reports tended to adopt a method of discourse that focused on reporting the individuals accused of being responsible for causing the typhoon-related disasters and the people accusing these individuals; the emphasis turned the typhoon-related disasters into social events and the factors contributing to conflicts regarding typhoon-related disasters were generally ignored.
This study posits that news media should disclose more scientific and environmental ethics-related information pertaining to the risks of typhoon-related disasters caused by climate change and unbalanced environmental development. The goal is to urge the government to achieve ideal typhoon disaster management and allow the public to have the awareness of typhoon disaster prevention even before typhoons arrive.
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