媒改經驗的激盪：大馬媒改運動者的臺灣經驗

Abstract

近十年來，馬來西亞政府干預媒體，不少年輕的媒體改革運動者挺身而出。根據觀察，這群年輕輩的運動者來自不同的教育背景，有些是在馬來西亞接受高等教育的學者，也有到英國、澳洲求學的運動者。本文關注的是一群曾在臺灣求學的運動者，因為他們表示在求學階段受到臺灣民主氛圍的影響。 過去研究馬來西亞媒體的論述都著重在事件的分析與探討，忽略了運動者的角色。因此，本文採用生命史研究方法，將焦點放在運動者的生命歷程，探討這幾位運動者在求學過程中是如何受到臺灣社會氛圍的影響，以及他們如何培養媒體改革的理念並實踐在馬來西亞媒體改革運動中。 本文發現運動者在臺灣求學期間是重要階段，讓他們瞭解媒體自由的重要，以及培養改革理念。同時影響他們未來的規劃，也就是他們日後返回馬來西亞積極參與國內的媒體改革運動，同時也將在臺灣所學運用在國內的媒體改革運動策略上。

Since last decade, the Malaysian government has been intervening the freedom of the press. The young media activists of Malaysia have been striving against the authorities. Coming from different educational background, the activists who once studied in Taiwan are discussed in this paper, because they are influenced by Taiwan's democratic atmosphere in the school stage. Most past studies on Malaysia media movement discuss the events of media movement alone, thus neglect the role of the activists in the movement. This paper analyzes the life experience of the activists by applying life history method, and focuses especially on their student life in Taiwan. By doing so, this paper examines the relation between some activists' student lives in Taiwan and their perspective on freedom of the press. In addition, this paper also shows how these activists participate in media reform movements in Malaysia. This paper finds that the activists have become familiar with the idea of media freedom when they stayed in Taiwan as a student. This experience has a critical impact on their future plan and leads them to be a media reform activist back in Malaysia. It also influences the strategy they develop for the movement.