Labor,or Social?

With the advent of the era of mobile Internet,social networking is entering into people's lives like air,and we are changing or be changed.As a special group,what kind of role do journalists play in the social network? This paper takes the Journalists' WeChat Group “UTC+8” as an example,the labor commodity theory and network community theory as guidelines,and make use of network ethnographic observation and field investigation of the WeChat group and the two newspapers,from the labor market perspective to reveal the labor commercialization process of the reporters in the social network.Through the study,in the mobile Internet era,the reporter's work ranges from offline to online,and penetrates into social networking.For one thing,the journalist's work has become a kind of online,open to public with no private time and space,which means the journalist's labor time is extended unlimitedly.In addition,no time and space limitation makes the reporters' work intensively heavier.At the same time,in the case of insufficient labor security provided by the official organization,social networking makes up for this problem to some extent,and provides a space for the protest.This study provides a reference for journalists,the media and the competent authorities,for everyone to reflect on their own from the news production itself.