The Model of Power and the Format of Content: On the Development of Personal Computers and “Step-by-Step” Content in Taiwan

This paper paid more attention on the content of PC magazines using the format of "step-by-step" in Taiwan. With the help of "step-by-step", readers could not only acquire computer knowledge containing in the content, but also could practice skills to manage personal computers. When following Foucault's concept about "power and body", it means that in the situation of "practicing", the disciplines of PC power would be allowed to have free access to enter into the bodies of readers. Following the widespread of step-by-step, the universal access to the whole society would be available, therefore materializing the information society and shaping morals of computers.