To Record People In News

Nowadays, mass media develop more and more fast and prosperous. At the same time, the audiences more and more rely on media that provide important information to perceive reality. In news production, individuals in realistic environment are represented as specific medium image. The media image will impact on the audiencs’ cognition about reality. In view of this, based on the background of social transformation and cultural representation theory, this thesis explores representation of media image of social stratum, taking Insight which is a TV news program for example. Internal mechanism and restrictions of representation are also study objectives. The study aims to rich research of media image representation theory and improve presentation of social stratum for TV news workers.Specifically, the paper chooses Insight, a news program on CCTV focusing on people in news. Starting from content analysis, based on communication, sociology and cultural representation theory, the paper analyses the representation of media image of characters from social stratum. The methods of representation are also discussed. Then the paper discusses mechanism of restrictions news production. The article tries to answer questions followed. Firstly, what is the overview of people in society represented in Insight? Secondly, how does Insight represent people in social media image? Thirdly, what is the meaning of the representation?In the framework of the article, chapter1introduces the topic origin, study content, methods, purpose and so on. Chapter2reviews the study of Insight, the media image study and research on related theories. In next chapter, in order to answer the first question, the article adopts content analysis to know the characteristics of people such like age, gender, stratum, social behavior, roles, and psychological needs. The chapter4focuses on the methods of the representation with frame analysis and narratology analysis. The fifth chapter explores restrictions on representation to solve the last problem from the angle of news production background. To conclude, in the trouble rooted in the social transition and the network media, the representation reflects that CCTV aims to shoulder social responsibility and seek for lost audience.