Journalist, Audience and their Life Strategy in West Africa After Democratic Transition:Toward an Anthropological Study of the Field of Media.

随着世界各地大规模的自然灾害和社会变革的发生，近年来，媒体所扮演的角色被重新考虑。在人类学研究的基础上，我们研究了西非贝宁共和国和多哥的政治状况，并对其媒体状况进行了分析。1990年他们经历了民主过渡，2000年后政治领导人和平交替，这在非洲国家中是罕见的。特别是，贝宁人对他们实现民主感到自豪，并憎恨社会混乱。最近，人们拿着手机看广播和电视，来参加一个节目，所以本研究着眼于媒体的社会角色和互动节目。我们从人们的生活史来研究媒介环境，把广播节目作为一个公共领域，分析人们如何理解民主并参与其中，以了解当今西非国家民主化的复杂形势。

As large-scale natural disaster and reformation of society happen in all parts of the world, the role that the media achieves is reconsidered in late years. Based on the anthropological reseach, we studies the political situation and analyses the situation of media in Republic of Benin and Togo, West Africa. In 1990 they have experienced the democratic transition, and the political leaders have alternated peacefully after 2000, which is rare among the African states. Particularly, Beninese are proud of their realization of democracy and detest the social disorder. Recently, people watch a radio and TV with a cell-phone and come to participate in a program, so that this study focuses on a social role of the media and the interactive programs. We studies media circumstances from the life history of people, taking broadcast programs as a public sphere and analyses how people understand democracyand participate in it in order to understand the complicated situation in democratization of West African states today.