Crowdfunding Journalism Under The Perspective Of News Production And Consumption

By the vigorous of crowdfunding industry in the world,Crowdfunding Journalism appears as a new mode of news production and consumption in internet.Crowdfunding Journalism is a journalistisch phenomenon that individual or organization raise funds and information from the public,then use collective intelligence and money to finish report.The establishment American website Spot.us was the mark that Crowdfunding Journalism began,2008.Since then,the influence of Crowdfunding Journalism has continuously expanded from San Francisco bay to the whole world.Depend on the different feature,Crowdfunding Journalism's development history can be divided into three stages,and each different period has different feature.Before the establishment of Spot.us,it's germination period,personal and random.Between the establishment of Spot.us and March of 2013,it's evolution period,A fter March of 2013,Crowdfunding Journalism come into the bottleneck period b ecause of Platform operating defection and participants decrease.From the angle of news production,Media practitioners and media organizat ion is main part of the subjects of production of Crowdfunding Journalism.besid es,student,scholar,etc is also organic parts of it. production process of Crowdfun ding Journalism include seven parts:idea appearance,idea check,raising funds,etc.different part all linked with one another.In this process,the raiser,backer and plat form are all participate in.the report that producted by Crowdfunding Journalism also have unique characteristics: investigative reporting about politics and liveli hood is the most part of it.video,picture is the main representation pattern.as o ne of social news productions,Crowdfunding Journalism also influenced by diffe rent factors,including politics,law,culture,market,etc.From the angle of news consumption,News consumers driven by the thought of seeking something new and special,the motivation that consumers donate money is that they want to support the development of high quality news works. Crowdfunding Journalism is kind of order-mode,anti-popularizational pattern.In this process,audiences can be a investor,message source and production process supervisor to a certain report.By experiencing of these roles,audiences can acquire mulriple consuming satisfaction.Crowdfunding Journalism reflects younger tendency of news consumer group,more flexible news consume choice and the popular of experiential and share-based news consumption.As a new pattern of news production and consumption,Crowdfunding Journ alism promoting the pace of media reform,and has its own innovation significa nce.It's makes disseminator and audience re-understanding their roles and functi ons,and reconstructing the process of news production.Meanwhile,it's also chang es audience's consumption habit,extends consumption scope.But it's development still faces realistic difficulties.Lack of protection of laws,press system restrictio n from some countries and defection of platform operation hinder it,s further de velopment.although having advantage,Crowdfunding Journalism can not displace the traditional news production and consumption mode.However,it's still have o wn place.If want to get long-term development,Crowdfunding Journalism shoul d depend itself platform,and make efforts hard in forming trunking function an d reforming old country press system.