A bibliographic analysis of academic literature on the freedom of the press published in Taiwan, 1987-2014

This article assesses the literatures qualitatively and quantitatively, regarding press freedom of press after the Post-Martial Law Period. 362 research articles were found with the keyword of 'freedom of the press', which consist of 198 of journal papers, 34 books, 26 conference papers, 94 PhD and master theses and 10 governmental publications. Our chronological analysis illustrated that the literatures about freedom of press was closely related to the current events in each period. Finally, it should be noted that there are 20 journal papers and 10 master theses focused more directly on 'negative freedom of press', with less attention given to 'positive freedom of press'.