作者 ｜
林宇玲(世新大學新聞學系)
摘要 ｜
為瞭解性別與網路之間的關係，本研究以論述分析檢視臺灣女性網站的論述表現。結果發現，在147個女性網站之中，至少出現12種不同的類型，此顯示女性網站產製異質與多樣性的女性論述，但其權力並不均等。受到市場機制的左右，營利屬性的女性網站較占優勢，其不但物化女性形象，也將性別議題納入商業體系之內。其次，從技術面來看，大多數的女性網站受到傳統性別念的影響，將網站建構成簡單的粉(紅)色領域，因而複製了宰制的意識型態。至科技無法完全地控制使用者，仍有拉子網站等意圖突破其侷限，讓科技能為婦女所用。
關鍵字 ｜
女性網站、性別化的科技、空間化的方法、論述分析、網際網路、網路空間
Title ｜
Reading Taiwan’s Women-Focused Websites
Author ｜
Yu-Ling Lin( Shin-Hsin University)
Abstract ｜
In order understand the relationship between gender and Internet, this research uses discourse analysis to examine the representations of Taiwan’s women-focused websites. This study finds that 147 websites are categorized into at least twelve types, revealing that the women-focused websites produce heterogeneous and diversified female discourses, yet are unequal in power. Due to the mechanism of capitalist market, the profit-driven women-focused websites are hegemonic in power relations.
In terms of technique, influenced by gender norms, most women-focused websites transform themselves into the pink areas, and thus reproduce the dominant ideologies. However, the technology cannot totally control users, some websites, like lesbian websites, try to use Internet to empower themselves and challenge the myth of “women is a technological illiterate”
Keywords ｜
Women-focused websites, Gendered technology, Spatialising method, Discourse analysis, Internet, Cyberspace