This study employs Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis to examine
#MeToo-related reports in online education news published by two major
Taiwanese mainstream news outlets during the ten months following the
rise of Taiwan’s #MeToo movement in June 2023. The analysis focuses on
the use of the term “MeToo” in headlines and article texts, as well as the
construction of bystander roles in news discourse.
Recent #MeToo scholarship has emphasized the democratic potential of
collective testimony and public connection. However, news coverage may
privilege individual cases over structural critiques of gendered power
relations within educational institutions. This study therefore examines how
Taiwanese news media constructed certain experiences of sexual violence as
public issues and represented gendered power relations in educational
settings.