英文摘要 |
This paper explores the relationship between Taiwan Indigenous Television(TITV) and the ethnic identity construction of the Taipei urban indigenous people(UIP) and examines the roles TITV plays in forming indigenous identity. Indepthinterviews with nineteen indigenous viewers from Taipei showed thatTITV has increased the sense of ethnic identity of UIP from four aspects: selfidentification,a sense of belonging, ethnic attitude, and ethnic involvement.Taiwan Indigenous Television has contributed to educating UIP, preserving andmodernizing mother languages, maintaining social and community networks, andminimizing knowledge and cultural gaps, as well as stereotypes of UIP towardstheir native tribal cultures. This study also discovered particular functions(exhibited especially by UIP viewers) of TITV that differ from previous researchon tribal audiences. |