The Categorization And Characteristics Of Web Host

The development and popularity of Internet has created a new type of anchorman—Web Host. Since the emerging of Ananova, the first web virtual hostess in the world in the new millennium, Web Host, as the new entity of spreading information on Internet has a broader connotation in itself. Especially as the wide application of net video technology and the teeming of video-sharing websites based on Users-Generates-Content (UGC) mode, Web Host not only means the transition of the main body of communication, but overturns the traditional propagation mode.The thesis firstly defines the Internet media where Web Host relies for survival and development, and then attempts to define Web Host and Web Hosting in the domain of Internet media defined above; Secondly classifies Web Host into several categories by a systematic standard which contains performance main body, program content, technology and techniques and broadcasting pattern, and then elaborates the characteristics and function of each category; Lastly, discusses the development tendency of Web Host, concerning the gatekeeper role of Web Host against the background of a new media era, and tries to bring forth a new research issue and provides practical reference for the online journalists.