Research On The Community Communication In China's Urban Areas In Transition Period

Nowadays, various relatively independent communities have come into being in China, the social functions of city "units" have been stripped, and communities substitute for such "units". Citizens are shifting from "unit man" to "community man" and communities have become important places in their daily life. As the community functions grow and continue to improve, communities have played a key role in city system. Meanwhile, since the recognition of the original unit is vanishing and the citizens need to build their recognition of communities and a relevant sense of belonging. And then the problem of communities' communication confronts the communication area in China. Starting from the level of communication and combining the author's studies on the communities' communication condition in Xiamen, this article employs the knowledge including that of other subjects to analyze the communication phenomena in city communities. It mainly contains: Firstly, define the community concept with the view of sociology, and then to discuss current community condition in China and raise the concept of communities' communication. Secondly, discuss the media forms of communities' communication: community print media, electronic media, network media and communities' activities and etc. Based on the analysis of community media, discuss their features. In the end, this article discusses the utilization and development of communication function of communities' media, mainly including economy functions of communities' media, functions of communities' media in city management, functions of communities' media in community culture and construction.