論述、權力與報業攝影記者職業性別隔離的維繫

Abstract

本文分析報紙攝影記者職業性別隔離背後的論述邏輯與性別意涵。首先，本文將說明攝影記者工作中的體能負荷與疲累實際上是社會組織下的結果。再者，本文將呈現對照攝影記者的理想勞動者形象，如何顯現出極其陽剛的面貌與氣質。藉此，本文將論證，與其說攝影記者的工作要求與組織規範從不考慮性別，不如說理想攝影記者的標準預設了男性的身體為標準。

This paper analyzes how the sexual boundary of photojournalists’ work in Taiwan is symbolically constituted. First, I will demonstrate how the organization of photojournalists’ work in Taiwan achieves efficiency at the expense of workers’ burnout. Second, I document how male photojournalists adopt the discourse of “burnout” to display their commitment to their work and contradict the crisis of masculinity. Female journalists, on the other hand, tend to be viewed as deviant workers who have difficulty living up to the organizational requirements and expectations. Furthermore, by analyzing the narratives of photojournalists and their supervisors within news companies, I demonstrate that the archetype of an “ideal photojournalist” is associated with highly romanticized “manhood.” In this vein, rather than viewing work organizations as neutral, rational and objective, I argue that the assumption of sexuality and gender in actuality exercises the discursive power to perpetuate the occupational sex segregation of photojournalists’ work in Taiwan.