這項研究考察了線上環境如何作為跨種族被收養者駕馭種族、遺產和親屬關係複雜性的數字「第三空間」。 這項研究超越了傳統的線下干預，與文化種族認同模型（Cultural-Racial Identity Model）和社會認同整合認知發展模型（Cognitive-Developmental Model of Social Identity Integration）建立了對話，以評估數字環境如何塑造現代跨種族被收養者身份。 該研究從三個層面調查了身份鬥爭：與出生家庭團聚狀態相關的情感影響（RQ1）、人際種族主義和身份鬥爭的相互作用（RQ2）以及不同團聚狀態的主題敘事轉變（RQ3）。 使用Reddit API，從subreddit r/TransracialAdoptees收集了N=564文字單元的資料語料庫。 來自Pearson的卡方和Fisher精確檢驗的定量宏觀模式與Norman Fairclough的三維批判性話語分析（CDA）相結合。 實證結果表明，親生家庭接觸不是情感影響的預測因素，暴露了內部矛盾，其中積極影響反映了重新獲得的機構，而消極影響突出了系統性語言抹殺。 人際種族主義和身份鬥爭之間存在著非常顯著的相關性，在公共微侵略、家庭色盲最小化和同齡人層面的種族守門上表現出來。 最後，雖然身份鬥爭的宏觀頻率在接觸前後保持不變（p=1），但敘事主題從被動的家譜困惑轉變為主動邊界談判。 最終，這項研究與現有的發展模型相結合，表明當物理環境強制進行色盲擦除時，跨種族被收養者可以使用數字第三空間來抵制機構指令碼，尋找社群，驗證集體悲傷，並努力實現綜合的雙文化-雙種族自我概念。

This study examines how online environments serve as a digital "third space" for transracial adoptees navigating the complexities of race, heritage, and kinship. Moving beyond traditional offline interventions, this research establishes a dialogue with the Cultural-Racial Identity Model (CRIM) and the Cognitive-Developmental Model of Social Identity Integration (CDSMII) to evaluate how digital environments shape modern transracial adoptee identities. The study investigates identity struggle across three dimensions: emotional affect relative to birth family reunion status (RQ1), the interplay of interpersonal racism and identity struggle (RQ2), and thematic narrative shifts across different reunion statuses (RQ3). Using the Reddit API, a data corpus of N=564 text units was collected from the subreddit r/TransracialAdoptees. Quantitative macro-patterns from Pearson's Chi-squared and Fisher's exact tests were integrated with Norman Fairclough's three-dimensional Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). The empirical results reveal that birth family contact is not a predictor of emotional affect, exposing an internal ambivalence where positive affect reflects reclaimed agency and negative affect highlights systemic language erasure. A highly significant correlation exists between interpersonal racism and identity struggle, manifesting inductively across public microaggressions, familial colorblind minimization, and peer-level ethnic gatekeeping. Finally, while macro-frequencies of identity struggle remain static before and after contact (p=1), the narrative themes shift from passive genealogical bewilderment to active boundary negotiation. Ultimately, this study engages with existing developmental models to show that when physical environments enforce colorblind erasure, transracial adoptees can use digital third spaces to resist institutional scripts, find community, validate collective grief, and work toward integrated, bicultural-biracial self-concepts.

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