Reports Of Migrant Workers From The Field Theory Research

Since2003, as the state taking more concerned about the migrant workers, migrant workers reports began to enter the media vision, and became a significant social issues. Then, how do the media report migrant workers now? Why do they report like that? Is there any difference between the reports of party newspapers’and metropolis’? What is the reason? This article attempts to explore the resons of current situation of migrant workers reports from the field theory perspective, and find the possibility of improvement.In the specific process of argumentation, this article takes the" Shaanxi daily" and" Chinese business newspaper" for example, analysing the contents from five aspects including report issues, report time, report perspective, report tendency and discourse right. From that,we catch a glimpse of migrant workers reports and find differences between the two papers and problems in common. Then we get a conclusinon that party newspaper reports in single perspective and metropolitan takes a swing stand.They both don’t give migrant workers adequacy of discourse right.On this basis, we use field theory to undertake an analysis, finding that the medium weak position of migrant workers groups is essential in terms of their inferior position in the social structure and party newspaper and metropolis Daily report differently because they are in different position of news field.The article concluded that the improvement of migrant workers reports is possible. And the structure function of news field shows that this improvement is necessary. We can promote the migrant workers reports,from obeying news field’s own logic, expanding the horizons of exchange of mediums’ capital as well as breaking through the habit of news production properly.