Study On The Status And Development Of Citizen Journalism In China

In the late 1990s, some change had began to appear in American journalism: with the development and popularization of the Internet, more and more common people actively and spontaneously involved in the production and dissemination of news. This change quickly spreads to other countries. With the study of this new trend go deep, a new concept "citizen journalism" appeared. By the beginning of the new century, citizen journalism in China loomed, and in recent years the trend seemed boom. In some incident, public issues citizen journalism began to play a role, exactly threatening traditional media. By using the theory of media ecology to study the rise of Chinese citizen journalism, this paper finds its existing not only relate to technical conditions, but also associate with democracy, news reform, and the realistic environment of media mergence.The original form of our citizen journalism is news clue. As the press informant network and new media technology progress, Chinese citizen journalism rely on network get great development: BBS, blogs, audio blogs, and citizen website become citizens reported carrier. Meanwhile, traditional media under the impact of the huge market competition, sought to breakthrough in news reports, exploring to play the advantage of citizen journalism. Some traditional media got started to carry citizen journalism. Through the overall analysis and case study, we can summarize the themes and language form content of our country citizen journalism, which has its characteristics. Citizen journalism is a deep transformation of transmission mode, the rapid development of it in our country, has produced a series of positive impact on public, mass media, and social.However citizen journalism is still a developing concept, plus our country's special political, economic, legal, social and cultural conditions, our citizen journalism in content, mode and security still has some deficiencies. According to the development trend of Chinese citizen journalism and their own situation, rely on professional media, perfect network information release environment, and strengthen citizen journalists foster, can become the effective strategy to impel our country citizen journalism healthy development.