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

20世纪70年代，大众媒体的新闻大多将“水俣病事件”建构为患者及其家属和支持者在媒体环境下的“水俣病”斗争。首先，电视新闻把“水俣病事件”作为这次事件的象征。然而，在《水俣病事件》新闻中建构“水俣病”斗争的时代特征的“抗争”的媒体环境中，对于媒体话语来说，谈论社会运动的历史转型是不够的，这是不形成的。此外，通过新闻，将患者的“拯救”与“赔偿”置于等同关系，患者的“承认”更多地与“赔偿”等同。电视纪录片也将“水俣病事件”描绘为“水俣”在媒体环境下的挣扎。然而，一些纪录片节目中反复出现的同一病人的影像，是电视用一种新颖的方式形成的对“水俣”的记录之一。可以说，观看这类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影像能够再现被迫生活在水俣病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.