The Media Characteristics And Cultural Significance Of Wiki

The network technology changes with each new day causes to emerge one after another new medium based on the network incessantly, when the blog is on the rise, Wiki this new term approaches people's field of vision gradually. Wiki support online co-creation, which has provided a platform for people to creat coordinately and communication knowledge and a new knowledge construction pattern. As a new technology systems,wiki has great application value inteaching,business,management, project information database, academic discussion and so on..Oversea wiki website success such as wikipedia and wiki's open,equality,cooperative creation,share and share the ethos of our country has attracted a group of technology enthusiasts to the Wiki in the practice. Wiki is a highly open network medium,which has also brought a certain amount of impact to the relevant theories of communication.Some impoertant communication theories such as "gatekeeper theory" had the different performance under the network environment.Wiki not only has inherited the availability in the network environment of these theories but also had certain extent surmounting and presents the new special characteristic.As one core application of web2.0 wiki can best manifest the opening,freely,shareable culture meaning, ofwhich the websites should have.At the sametime,wiki also revealed that the website has returned gradually to its freedom and equal essence.Have experienced passive acceptance of internet information time, the freedom, the equality, the participation more and more becomes the important demand when the people access the net.And the communication characteristics of wiki has happen to catered to the psychology demands of the internet users. Because wiki ,the new concept of network,is still in the exploratory development stage in our country, the domestic research for the Wiki is still very limited,most of which is a reporting or a concept introduction.For most people and even some communication scholars the terms of wiki is still a relatively strange and a unfamiliar noun.So the purpose of this article is to organization and grasp wiki in the whole,from which the artile not only study and analyze deeply its significance brought to communication,but also discuss its faced problems and the solution way in the development as a new.