英文摘要 |
This study attempted to explore the impacts of web textuality on the writing of history. Using the 1998 rape photo incident of Indonesia Chinese women as an example, three kinds of texts, the original, the mainstream newspaper, and those from the general public were compared. The analyses of the results indicated that since those brutal pictures being hyperlinked to the online forum of the United Morning Psot of Singapore were all removed from the linking websites, the original text from the forum at the same time lost its authenticity. The historical testimonies provided by the United Daily News of Taiwan and the Google search engine were very different by nature. The former one was relatively remote and objective, but the latter one acknowledged that those brutal pictures could play a crucial role in online historical construction of reality. Due to the writing of history involved a blending of fact and fiction, the authenticity of the story itself declined as well. Employing comparison and interaction among online texts has become the new mechanism for testimonial power, and using a psychoanalysis strategy instead of a historiographic one has also become the trend of writing history. |