| 摘要: | 世界各國均面臨人口結構老化的危機，而我國的情況因少子女化而更嚴重。隨著國人愈來愈長 壽，老人面臨的年齡歧視應和性別歧視、種族歧視一樣受到重視。另外，隨人口長壽而來的是，65 歲 以上失智症盛行率愈來愈高。然而，我們對失智症的認識與理解仍極為有限，且主要仍來自於媒體中 介的內容，特別是新聞報導。本計畫旨在分析社會對老人的年齡歧視，如何呈現在其對失智症及患者 的偏頗報導上，進而建構了老人的虛擬社會身份。本計畫擬兼採量性內容分析、質性的文本框架分析 與批判論述分析等三種方法，並參考污名理論中的五個污名組成要素，分析2011 至2015 年國內三家 主要報紙電子資料庫的新聞文本如何再現失智事件的真實、對失智疾病的隱喻，預期這些都會反映對 整體老人的社會身份建構。本計畫假定，這些關於失智症的新聞文本不僅用特定的詞彙、隱喻、框架 與論述結構「再現」新聞事件的真實，強化了對失智者的負面刻板印象，也為整體老人建構了「虛擬 的」社會身份。質言之，社會對老人的年齡歧視原本隱而未顯，但失智做為一種老人疾病的污名，透 過新聞報導的加工與包裝處理，使得此一歧視產生被「再生產」的效果。
Population ageing, the process by which older people become a proportionally larger share of the total population, has been facing almost all countries in the world, and it is a more imminent crisis in Taiwan for low birth rates. As more people live longer, the ageism against older people should deserve to be emphasized just like sexism and racism. Besides, with longevity, the prevalence of dementia in people aged 65 years and over is expected to continue increasing. However, our knowledge and understanding toward this illness has been so limited and mainly from the media’s content, especially news stories. This research proposal aims to analyze how the ageism is represented in biased news stories about dementia and patients with it, and construct a virtual social identity for older people. I plan to combine three methods including content analysis, text framing analysis and critical discourse analysis, with adopting five components consisting of stigma into my analytical framework. The news stories from three major newspapers’ electronic data bases in Taiwan over the period of 2011 to 2015 will be collected and analyzed. The focus is put on the media representation of the events about dementia, the dementia as an illness metaphor, all of which are expected to reflect the construction of a virtual social identity for older people. It is assumed that these news texts not only use certain words, metaphors, frames and discourse structures to represent the reality in news events, reinforcing the negative stereotypes toward people with dementia, but also construct the “virtual” social identity for older people as a whole. Furthermore, the ageism against older people may be latent, but the stigma of dementia as an illness for older people may “reproduce” the ageism with the processing and packaging of the relevant news stories. |
