Under The New Media Era Of Citizen Journalism Studies

In recent years, with the continuous development of new media technologies, online news distribution platform continue to increase, whether it is professional media, traditional media organizations, or in the past as the mass of information the recipient in the event of breakthrough changes, the sovereignty of news pressing is not a patent of the media, the public through timely communication tools to participate in the press, the integration of the news, the gatekeeper of the news, and news comments. The subject of news releasing has become increasingly blurred, the audience can be both news producers but also the reading of information, every citizen is a potential reporter "citizen journalism" as the past few years of academic research hot.Firstly, the concept, historical source, the origin of the background of citizen journalism, the difference and the theoretical basis of" public journalism " and " citizen journalism" are explained in this paper. Then, the author explore several new media platforms in the development of new technologies on citizen journalism more extensive use of the mode of operation, network reviews, online forums, blog, wiki news, citizen journalism sites to explore, mainly from discusses the characteristics of new media forms and the angle of the "audience participation ". In view of the spread of forms of Chinese citizen journalism, microblogging press release of our citizens due to the characteristics of low-threshold access to real-time interaction, synchronous transmission, fission mode of transmission carrier. Citizen journalism as a new form of media, will inevitably have some impact on the news industry, the traditional definition of news is not become the measure of whether the standard of news information; Reporters role will change the reporter’s news gathering capacity requirements continue to improve, the reporter is not only the record of information is the organizers and participants of the event; traditional media is not the monopoly of information, no right to suppress any valid information, citizen journalism as a force of supervision of the media but also the traditional media in incomplete information, error information to correct a beneficial supplement; The traditional media deal with the impact of citizen journalism, the main parameters of the use and integration has become an integral part of the media industry. Finally, the article on citizen journalism Reflections that are citizens of each reporter on the current at this stage is difficult to achieve, but with the improvement of citizens media literacy, the improvement of the public sphere, communication technologies the continuous development of every citizen is a reporter is an attainable goal; First-hand information of the public and citizen journalism correction mechanism makes the news is getting closer from the truth; public participation in the news has become an irreversible historical trend of the development needs of the times, is a historical necessity of the news media. Citizen journalism in China is currently the primary embryonic stage, the main form of integration, to obtain the support of the traditional media and traditional media.