The Research On Citizen Journalism Under We Media Period Of China

Citizen journalism developed from United States public journalism campaigns in 1990s.Early,it was named "public journalism", "participatory journalism", "civic journalism" and so on. Citizen journalism has broken the pattern that activities of journalism and media was controlled by news media organizations and professional staffs. It means that common people can use mass media and personal communication facilities, such as digital camera, digital video, computer network, mobile to collect, edit, arrange and spread the new, special and important messages in public. With arrival of the news media 3.0,China access into we media period in 21 century. We media is the general of new medias that personal disseminator send normative or non-normative messages to groups and single in modern electronic ways. The platform of we media provides new communication channels and modes of citizen journalism. Its characters include private and interactivity, are fit with citizen journalism communication activities. Citizen journalism under we media of China is developed boomingly.At present, the main forms of citizen journalism under we media in China include blog, BBS, citizen journalism website, podcasting, QQ, e-mail, wiki and so on. Subject of communication is non-professional and personalized. We media has strong interaction. Communication contents are more openly and publicly. Communication objects are minority. Citizen journalism under we media is separated from traditional journalism by these characters.As technology progresses, we media and citizen journalism have great-leap-forward development. More and more positive impacts emerge in our society. Citizen journalism under we media has brought out innovations in the journalism theories. Merging with mass media, promote traditional journalism's development at the same time. Development of citizen journalism under we media has taken more and more spoken right to public. Sense of democracy was strengthen. Most citizens participate in public affairs discussion and public decision-making. In addition, development of citizen journalism has accelerated the process of socialist democracy, perfected publicsphere, facilitated harmonious society construction and civil society development.Rapid development of citizen journalism under we media in China has raised some problems. Many disseminators have no professional skills on coverage, citizen journalism in low quality. Some people lack of social morality, bring about web violence. Less public affairs subjects in citizen journalism, locking gatekeeper provide platform to dangerous message and fake news. Those problems bring down the authorities of we media. In addition, legal of networked environment management under we media is imperfect. Solving these problems, we can strengthen the supervision on citizen journalism in levels of disseminator, communication content, communication media and communication environment. We can find out countermeasures, improve citizen journalism development in new media environment. Citizen journalism under we media can play an active role in harmonious society construction and civil society development.