Construction and memory of the Minamata Disease Affair in the media environment

20世纪70年代，大众传媒的新闻大多将水患事件建构为患者及其家属和支持者在传媒环境下的“水患”斗争。首先，电视新闻把水患事件作为一个事件来象征这一时期，然而，在水患事件新闻中建构“水患”斗争表征“抗争”时代的媒介环境，就媒介话语而言，谈社会运动的历史转型还不够。另外，通过新闻，病人的“救助”与“赔偿”被置于对等关系，病人的“承认”与“赔偿”之间的对等性越来越强。电视纪录片也将水患事件描绘成媒体环境下的“水患”斗争。而纪录片节目中重复出现的同一个病人的形象，则是电视以一种间接的方式形成的“水患”记录之一。可以说，观看这些节目的经历形成了许多人对“水俣”的记忆。这样一部电视纪录片的存档使电视图像能够代表被迫生活在水患中的患者的生活和时间。

In 1970s, most of news of the mass media constructed a Minamata Disease Affair as a struggle of "Minamata" by patients and their families and supporters in media environment. Above all, the TV news drew a Minamata Disease Affair as an event to symbolize this time.However, in the Minamata Disease Affair news to construct the struggle of "Minamata" characterizing the times of "the protest" in media environment, as for the media discourse to talk about the historical transformation of the social movement enough, it is not formed.In addition, by the news, "salvation" and "the indemnity" of the patient were placed for equivalent relations, and "the acknowledgement" of the patient came to be said with "indemnity" more that it was equivalent.The TV documentary draws the Minamata Disease Affair as the struggle of "Minamata" in media environment, too. However, the images of the same patient repeated by some documentary programs is one of the records of "Minamata" that TV formed by an inh rent method. And it may be said that experiences to watch such programs form memories of "Minamata" for many people. The archive of such a TV documentary enables the images of TV to represent life and time of patients forced to live in Minamata disease.