在速度的廢墟中挺進：電子媒介新聞的唯物批判觀點

Marching in the Ruin of Speed: A Materialistic Critique of News in the Electronic Media

本文以唯物批判的路徑，檢視當前電子媒介新聞產製生態的結構性限制。本文主張，對於速度的極致追求，是造成當前電子媒體新聞產製嚴重脫離其社會服務本務的主要原因。速度所造成的產製場域的封閉性，不但使得新聞無法再現社會現實，更造成電子媒介的資訊成為製造社會空間象徵性暴力的主要作手。因此，凸顯新聞與社會關係的問題，應由細究電視的傳輸技術、產業競爭機制以及電視視覺特性的交互作用所共構的場域入手，彰顯這些物質條件如何窄化新聞增進社會互動的角色。

This study seeks to demonstrate and criticize the structural limitation of the mechanism of news production in the electronic media. Taking a materialistic approach, the study argues that the pursuit of absolute speed constitutes to the major cause of news aberration from its designated social responsibility. Speed-driven news production gives rise to a system marked by operational closure, which deprives news from representing social reality. Speed has become the ultimate manipulator of the symbolic violence of the social space. Therefore, a thorough examination of social problems created by television news should start from an investigation of the 'field,' characterized by the interaction among the factors of transmission technology, the habitus of industrial competition, and the nature of the televisual image. These interrelated material conditions deprive electronic news of its task in improving social interaction.