Chinese Journalism And Communication Research Of New Period——under The Humanism Perspective

The basic logic behind this thesis is to observe the development, evolution and shortcomings of Journalism and Communication in the new era from the perspective of humanism. In this thesis, humanism consists of three aspects of meanings:Firstly, focused on humanity, humanism lays stress on the personality, dignity, value and freedom of people as individuals, as well as the individualism-based universal love, i.e. human consciousness; secondly, humanism highly appreciates the rationality of human while negates religion, superstition and other eternal dissident force, thus emphasizes rational standpoint and critical thinking; thirdly, humanism stresses human right and equality in political system, and that democracy is the necessary condition to achieve human freedom and liberation. Since the adoption of reform and opening-up policy, driven by social ideological trend, humanism has taken deep roots in the heart of Chinese peoples, and it has interacted with Journalism and Communication in the following five ways:humanism thought lays cultural and psychological foundation for journalistic reform; humanism designate the direction for future development of journalistic reform; humanism thought boosts the change of Chinese news concept; humanism provides Journalism and Communication with evaluation standards of value; news media amplifies the spread of humanism and promotes its further transmission.According to this thesis, Journalism and Communication has experienced an internal and profound shift from focusing on political liberation to highlighting all-around development in the past three decade. The most profound change of news reporting lies in the respect for people and the attention to the value and meaning of human life, the return to the objective and real spirit of rationality, the practice of people-oriented principle by the Journalism and Communication, a process in which the interests of the majority as the starting point and objective. All these embody the three aspects of humanism in the field of Journalism and Communication. Based on the history of modern Journalism and Communication, this thesis tends to vertically comb the embodiment of humanism in the Journalism and Communication, and inspect the evolution of Journalism and Communication in different periods from a historic perspective. Humanism is embodied at different level in the new era Journalism and Communication, which has radiated new value connotation in the light of it. But it also should be noticed that the many problems in the press all concern the lack of humanism, and reflect a lost of value. It's mainly due to the fact that the value and ideality of humanism haven't become the general consensus in the society, and the simplification of ideology, as well as its tight control of democratical political construction limits the space of news development. All the shortcomings of journalism have a close relation to this. To solve this problem at the present stage, media need to clear up its relation with authority, to integrate the heteronomy with autonomy in the news industry, and enhance the self-cultivation of media workers, so as to cultivate humanistic feelings, independent personality and critical thinking among them.