Study On Challenges And Countermeasures Of The Fifth Media To National Security

Fifth Media refers to a new emerging form of media that is based on wireless communication technology and Internet technology, shows and transfers a variety of information through mobile phones and other mobile devices. Entering the21st century, following the four mainstream media, that is the newspapers, radio, television, the Internet, the Fifth Media has a rapid development. At present, China has become one country which user size of the Fifth Media is largest worldwide. In recent years, Chinese scholars have begun to study application and the influence of the Fifth Media in the commercial domain and the news dissemination. In fact, the Fifth Media has a huge impact on national security, and its dual nature brings the potential hazard to national security. Regrettably, however few people aware and pay attention to this question. The related specialized researches are also lack very much. So this topic on challenge and countermeasure of Fifth Media to national security has the vital significance.Fifth Media takes mobile phones and other mobile intelligent terminal as a carrier, and has many application forms, such as SMS/MMS, mobile newspapers/magazines/books, mobile radio/TV/film, mobile Internet, mobile blog/microblog, mobile e-commerce, mobile two-dimensional code and so on. Different from the traditional media and other new media, Fifth Media has its own unique characteristics that are the universality of user groups, the dispensability of transmission way, the interaction of dissemination process, grass-roots nature of dissemination content, the individualization of mobile terminal, the timeliness of information transmission, the accuracy of transmission objects etc. Those unique characteristics determines that Fifth Media will integrate traditional media and Internet media and create new independent fonns of media dissemination, and finally have a deep and long-term impact on human life and social development. From the perspective of national security, the dual nature of Fifth Media becomes more prominent. Firstly, as a grass-roots media, Fifth Media encourages personal liberalism and anarchism while it enhances public democracy consciousness and discourse power. Secondly, due to it’s dispensability of transmission way and the timeliness of information transmission, Fifth Media increases the difficulty to guide public opinion and the cost to handle public crisis for government while it greatly improves the efficiency of information dissemination. Thirdly, Fifth Media must take responsibility for divulging of important information while it deliveries information rapidly to meet all kinds of needs of people. Fourthly, Fifth Media puts citizens’privacy and personal security under threat, while it achieves the precise positioning of the terminal, accurate dissemination of information and powerful information search. Fifthly, Fifth Media provided technical conditions for Western countries to strengthen Omni-directional permeability to China, while it provides various modernized high tech media methods and expands the channels of political participation for the people. Therefore, in the era of the fifth media, Chinese national politics security, ideology security, social public security, economic security, national secret and information security are facing new challenges.The United States and other Western countries have already begun to prepare for the battle of the information technology security field, and have taken measures to strengthen the supervision and safety precautions to the Fifth Media. In China, the core technology still has a big gap compared with western countries, in addition, the relevant supervisory system is lagging behind and the public lack the guard consciousness to hidden danger brought by Fifth Media. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen the study on Fifth Media based on the perspective of national security, and take measures to control and guards against harms and hidden dangers to national security brought by Fifth Media, finally promote the harmonious development of economic society. Firstly, enhance China’s technological level and international competitiveness in the field of new media. Secondly, build on information and communication security assessments and early warning mechanisms. Thirdly, play national security department’s prevention role in industrial strategy plan. Fourthly, build Legislation and justice on national security. Fifthly, use the Fifth Media to guide public opinion positively. Sixthly, improve the national security and confidentiality awareness of the whole society.