Political Unification and Independence in the Media: The Case of Taiwan

The unification-independent issue is an important political cleavage in Taiwan, and the media is capable of constructing a reality which delimits people’s imagination of unification and independence. This identity issue is a concern at the present age because democratic politics contain multiple perspectives that let the minority express its unification-independent attitude. When different attitudes appear in the majority and minority, it forms a discrepancy in identity. And undoubtedly, media information plays a discourse role in people’s political identity discrepancy.