The Study Of Media Literacy To Development And Influence Of Citizens Journalism

The famous Drudge News makes Mr. Clinton to be the third impeached president of America. The'Oh My News'of South Korea creates an unimaginable miracle of traditional media Ages. Chinese netizens make'Tiger Zhou'to be a paper tiger.Citizen Journalism means first hand information coming from amateur Journalists. From the 20th century, 90 years, it raises only 20 years. Maybe citizens never heard of this new term and don't know its connotation or extension; however citizens have become direct or indirect participants actively or passively.Citizen Journalism is outburst of citizens'expressive desire under the conditions of new media. The appearance of Citizen Journalism changes the ecology of communication contemporarily and brights about a revolution in journalism. And then there are attendant problems, such as defamation, abusive, fake information, and violation of their legal rights. The main reasons are low quality of citizen journalists, lack of traditional media's guidance, and government administrative agencies and media regulatory bodies lack of correct understanding to Citizen Journalism. These are performances of understanding and applying media information capacity, which have much connection with media literacy of Citizen Journalism participants.Currently, China is in a social transitional period. Mind and emotion of citizens is in immature and unstable embarrassment period. However, developments of new technology and civic democratic ideas have made citizens within Citizen Journalism. How to make Citizen Journalism smoothly developed? How to improve Citizen Journalism through enhancing media literacy? These are many problems to face and solve necessarily.As related subjects of Citizen Journalism, communicators, audience, traditional media, government administrative agencies and media regulatory bodies which all thoroughly understand importance and influence of Citizen Journalism. By raising media literacy to improve media status and formulating system of Citizen Journalism, make Citizen Journalism to be beneficial to the interests of the majority, harmony society, the expressive right of citizens, and the democratic public opinion environment.In the context of new media development, this essay is from the start of reality problems of Citizen Journalism to look for reasons of problems from the standpoint of media literacy, and to research into ordered development of Citizen Journalism, and hope to provide some strategy and advice to solve problems of Citizen Journalism.The over-thirty-thousand-word essay consists of introduction, text and conclusion. Introduction mostly elaborates the topic background, the significance of reality and theory, emphasis, difficulties, innovations and methods to research.The part of text consists of three parts. The first part overviews Citizen Journalism in terms of social background, theoretical origin and realistic results from it rises 20 years ago. This part analysizes the great influence of Citizen Journalism to communicational, political and social field.The second part analysizes reality problems of Citizen Journalism which consist of challenge to news principles, appearance to network force, challenge to government and traditional media, and so on. By inducting the concept of media literacy to analysize influence of media literacy of citizens, media and government agencies to Citizen Journalism and analysize reasons of problems rising.The third part is on the basis of pretext, constructively proposes methods and strategies from the point of the media literacy of citizens, media regulatory bodies and government administrative agencies, which consist that improve the level of knowledge dissemination of information of citizens, strengthen cooperation of traditional media and new media, boost the level of informative disclosure and management of online media, and so on. Finally, this part comes up with the best communication effect which Citizen Journalism should achieved.The conclusion points out that Citizen Journalism and media literacy are all immature concepts. With the development of society, the problems will emerge continuously. So in the context of news media, it needs to bright out coping strategies. The research of Citizen Journalism is a topic endlessly.