Riot or Uprising－The Interaction and Meaning Construction Between The Migrant Organization and News Media in“The Thailand Workers Strike in Kaohsiung”
Date Issued
2011
Date
2011
Author(s)
Jian, Xiao-Juan
Abstract
“The Thailand Workers’ Strike in Kaohsiung” took place in 2005, known as the one of the largest foreign work’s protest in Taiwan. Since the strike here have been many research papers done on this event. This study has combined “media research” and “the interaction between social movement and news media” as a tool to explore the relationship between news coverage, media organization and news resources.
This study is based on the theory of “social constructionism” and have adopted “frame” as the analyzing tools. By analyzing the news coverage, we can understand how the frames have completed with others and how the issues have developed over time. Thus allowed us too see this social issues as a process of different resources’s participation of defining this accident.
This study also employed the in-depth interviews with social activist group to find out their ways of meaning constructing and their strategies on employment of media. Different from the hegemony theory, it suggested that the media could be very important political resources for social organization.
This study continues to interview the journalists to explore the influences that media organization, journalists and news resources might have on the coverage.
The conclusion indicates that the officials and employers occupy the route of media, as opposed to the foreign workers. However, the finding shows that the activists can construct meaning successfully by using specific strategies. It also concluded several factors which affects the cognition of journalist and the way of report.
The implication of this study is to bring the “structure” into consideration. Moreover, it is suggested that we should not ignore the “autonomy” and “agency” of foreign workers and organizations. Some implications are also proposed to help the media to report foreign workers correctly and critically.
Subjects
The Thailand Workers Strike in Kaohsiung
news resources
social movement
framing theory
media strategy
Type
thesis
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