| 英文摘要 |
In recent years, idol pop culture has swept through the global entertainment industry. While the public often harbors stereotypes of idols as a group of beautiful, handsome, and cute people performing on stage, this ignores the harsh realities behind their development. What do these idols go through off-stage? How do they survive in the competitive environment within the group under operational regulations? This study aims to employ theories of field, dramaturgy, and media mediation to analyze the individual members of Japanese idol girl groups as agents. It seeks to depict the agency breakthroughs in the idol cultivation. Through the social practices of individual members, such as participation in auditions, role positioning, and struggles for selection and central position, it is found that the idols have internalized group rules and adjusted their habitus. Depending on their role within the group, they form initial social capital and establish internal relationships. Subsequently, as they gain more control over management operations and power over other members, they readjust their habitus and interpersonal relationships to increase their bargaining power within the group. Furthermore, in the competitive struggles within the group's field, individuals fully utilize the characteristics of media mediation to construct social relations of image capital through the media power field, thus strengthening their relationships of power and irreplaceable symbolic capital within the group. This practical circuit of idol development also leads to the formation of the idols' life cultivation as they discover themselves. |