Research On Identity Construction Of Media Intern

Every individual has many identities.Identity,as a self-cognition,contains the questions of "who I am" and "what kind of person I am",and also defines our behavior.Interns can be seen in all kinds of media at all levels in China,and they play an important role in the news media.How they construct their identity is worth paying attention to.The identity construction of media interns refers to how media interns perceive their own identity and how to construct this identity.The precondition of media interns’ identity construction is to acquire such identity.They have three orientations that are vacational identity,self-improvement and training requirements.Vacational identity includes cognition identity,affectivity identity and behavior identity.In addition,the Internet technology has produced a profound change in the media industry,the traditional media transforms to media convergence,reform the existing mechanisms and institutions to adapt to the development of the age of the Internet medium environment,theorientation of talent demand changes,this causes the media news faculty training mode of the original cultivated professional journalists cannot meet the market demand.In addition to the grim employment situation,in order to increase their advantages in job hunting,prompted the phenomenon of "involution".It is precisely because of the profound changes in the media industry that the former communication environment no longer exists,and the huge difference between journalism ideal and reality leads to the decrease of the willingness to choose a career,resulting in the emergence of the "utilitarian internship" phenomenon.The power of identity construction is multifaceted.People have subjective initiative.In the process of identity construction,media interns forms a subjective consciousness to construct their own identity.At the same time,everyone can not exist in isolation,as long as individuals live in the society,they must have contact with others or other things,and be affected by the "others".Not only "self" can construct identity,but also "others" is one of the forces of identity construction because identity is formed in the process of interaction between individuals and others.In addition,individual always belongs to a group of people or an organization,media interns will realize that which group they belong to during the internship,and they will know their group identity,and realize that the emotion and value sense brought by the group as one of its members.Therefore,group identity is an aspect of media interns’ identity construction.Media interns have two kinds of identities—— "student identity" and "professional identity".In the process of transformation from "student identity" to "professional identity",the identity positioning is blurred due to the ambiguity of role positioning and function positioning.The dislocation between journalism education and media practice,the difference between journalism career ideal and reality,and the contradiction between student identity and professional identity lead to the conflict in the process of identity transformation.The ambiguity of identity orientation and the conflict in the process of identity transformation make media interns fall into the dilemma of identity construction,resulting in the identity crisis.The solution of this identity crisis requires the school to reform the training system of news media talents,and also requires the internship units to adhere to journalistic professionalism,set an example for them,promote their professional identity,formulate intern norms,and ensure the rights and interests of interns.