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Study On The Spread Of Wechat Rumors

Posted on:2019-03-11Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J ChenFull Text:PDF
GTID:2428330563452851Subject:Journalism
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With the development of mobile Internet technology,smartphone has gradually become the main way to get information.Since WeChat was developed,by the third quarter of 2015,the number of people using WeChat had crossed the 650 million mark,spreading rumors more widely among WeChat and other social apps in the process of sharing information.In the era of self-media,there are more and more ways to receive and disseminate information,and the speed is getting faster and faster.A rumor,especially all kinds of rumors associated with our life,is easy to cause social unrest.When it comes to WeChat rumors,one cannot help but say that Professor Zhou Yuqiong,a well-known scholar at Shenzhen University,has studied rumors,and Professor Zhou Yuqiong pointed out them in the Research on Internet rumors in Contemporary China.Rumor is the process of people who have no official confirmation about the actual life and even talk about an impromptu news.Rumors are spread in private,open channels that interest the audience,are fictitious events on the basis of no factual evidence,it's not a neutral message,it's a kind of slander,aggression,Deceptive negative tendency to speak.However,WeChat on the mobile phone and various social networking software,as a kind of public information platform,not only have some features of "new media",but also have social function,information dissemination function and information receiving function.Their emergence has greatly changed public life.WeChat has speeded up the spread of rumors as well as the high speed of sharing information.Media goes deep into every aspect of our life.The foundation of new media is mainly Weibo,WeChat.WeChat rumors spread widely,spread fast,and have great harm.But we usually do not understand and analyze them in the way we see them.People think that WeChat rumors are bad,just like street mice,"everyone calls to fight" just to further guard against the control of rumors.Therefore,this article analyzes from the perspective of the new media era.On the premise of Chinese and foreign scholars' literature research on rumour research,synthesizing our research on WeChat rumor,this paper tries to make a sub-comprehensive and multi-level reflection on the characteristics and nature of WeChat rumors.On the basis of analyzing the causes of the spread of the new media era and the formation of WeChat rumors and the "butterfly effect",this paper further analyzes the spreading mode of WeChat rumors and the influence of reconstructing the mob of modern society.And to develop a variety of ways to deal with WeChat rumors to improvethe spread of WeChat rumors phenomenon,but also for future research and analysis to make a certain reference.The author studies the typical events of rumors on WeChat and discusses the measures to disprove rumors in order to prevent the rumors from WeChat.
Keywords/Search Tags:New media, WeChat, WeChat rumors
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