The Un-Civic Popular Culture? The Generation of Political Discourse in Taiwanese Online Bulletin

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Abstract

Originated from a larger ethnographic study on the fandom of Japanese popular culture in Taiwan, this case study of online discourse discovers that the Taiwanese youth in fact draw on Japanese TV dramas as a resource for discussing reflexively on their own social and political conditions. This study calls for more critical reflections on the relationship between the micro-level of discourse analysis and the macro-level study of social political changes.

Author

• Hsin-Yen Yang, University of Iowa