Citizen Journalism In China In The Current Media Environment, Practice And Development

Citizen journalism, also known as "participatory news", it is an act that citizens (non-professional news communication) "play an active role in the process of the collection, reporting, analysis and communication of news and information ".Citizen journalism originated in the United States in 90s' of last century, by the development of public journalism campaigns. The new century, the emergence of citizen journalism in our country, resulting in extensive discussions. The paper main use of methods of the Literature collection and case studies, and use of some theories about journalism, communication and sociology, do some analysis and research for the Patterns, practices, characteristics, significance and the problems of Citizen journalism under the current media ecology in china.The concept in the paper of "media ecology" originated in the domestic traditional media ecology research areas, namely the media and their living environment, the interactions among the politics, economy, culture, technology, audience and so on. China is in the current period of social transformation, a new media ecosystem has been formed, the various factors in this media ecosystem affecting the development of citizen journalism in our country.Under the influence of four aspects as social system environment, social cultural environment, market environment and technical environment, and by the gradually emerged of "public sphere" and Gradually raise the awareness of citizens in china, as well as the development of science and technology, in particular, the network technology, Citizen journalism of china practice actively in the web forum, Blog, Citizen journalism web etc. With the intense competition in the market, the traditional media have input into the practice of citizen journalism.Citizen journalism plays many positive roles in China, but it encountered some bottlenecks in the development process, the paper gives some Suggestions and attempts to explore a suitable path for the development of China's Citizen Journalism, hoping for giving some reference to active and healthy development of Citizen Journalism in china.