Internet Era Of Citizen Journalism Research

With the advancement of technology, social development, human into the rapid development of the Internet era. Way of information dissemination and content because of the popularity of the network gradually changing. People increasingly strong for the pursuit of democracy, to question the authority of the mainstream media has been more intense self-expression of the will. As citizen journalism, public participation mode of transmission is quietly rising.In many communications pattern of citizen journalism, blogging and microblogging more typical due to the higher degree of concern for public affairs. In1998, Matt Gillard, the first to use their own blog Girard reported U.S. President Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky "zipper" incident surfaced, Since then, blogs and other forms of network communication is a promote the true arrival of the era of citizen journalism. Web2.0technology matures, microblogging became more from the media following the blog, led to the further development of citizen journalism, citizen journalism play in our lives, infinite power, to lead us into a real all the people speak of the times.From the blog to the micro-bologging, to the integration of media, citizen journalism through every step of significance. Internet age, every citizen to benefit from the development of new media technology news, citizens of the right to speak, can be released through the network channels, media close to the right, right to information, the right to express and to supervise an unprecedented level of protection. Citizen journalism to a democratization of media forms to subvert the old "public opinion" propagation pattern, the news became common discourse of the society as a whole.The problems of the network era of citizen journalism, on the other hand, can not be ignored, for example, can not guarantee the authenticity of the news, superficial and whisper tendency. At the same time enjoy the rights of citizen journalism, we should actively explore improvement strategies of citizen journalism, citizen reporters news literacy, improve the public opinion monitoring mechanism, improve network management and regulations, strengthen the industry self-regulation, to promote the healthy development of citizen journalism.In this paper, blog and microblogging spread form of citizen journalism as the research object, pay attention to the history and development of citizen journalism in the form of micro-blog, blog, as well as the integration of media to explore the existing problems in the development of citizen journalism in China, the healthy development of citizen journalism Policy support.