A Research On College Students’ News Sharing In Wechat Moments In The Perspective Of News User

People increasingly visit social media for news consumption.Journalists are no longer the sole gatekeepers who determine which news one is exposed to,because a second filter layer has emerged:citizens who spread the news by sharing links on social media.Common news users should be guided by some criteria the same as professional journalists.How do common news users perceive elements of news value and use them to share news?These questions have not been given enough attention.Under the perspective of news users,this article focus on the understanding of news value of news users,in order to add new significance to classic news value theory.Using text analysis and in-depth interview,this article pays attention to college students’ act of news sharing on Wechat Moments.The act of news sharing can be described as a new phenomenon that lies somewhere in between news creation and news reception,and becomes important characteristic of gatekeeping behavior of news users.This article draws on news worthwhileness theory,and divides into five parts:the first part is abstract,mainly introduces the rise and background of research question.The second part is research design,mainly explains the methods of research and theoretical frame.The third part uses text analysis to understand the behaviors of news sharing of college students.The fourth part is the explanation of in-depth interview from four dementions,the conclusion implies how common users understand news worthwhileness.In this article,we have shown that the concept of news wothwhileness can be devoted to explain news selection and news sharing of common news users,and explain audience choices.This is of high theoretical importance for better understanding news flows,where the audience themselves play a role in redistributing the content by means of sharing.It implies a change of perspective from news gatekeeper to news user.And what should be headlined is that news worthwhileness will not replace news value theory,but a new way to explain it in era of social media.