Misplacement,Sortie And Escape:A Study Of The Professional Identity Of Journalism Students

As a backup force for news practitioners,the professional identity of journalism students directly affects the development of talent reserves and talent teams in the news industry.Through in-depth interviews with 32 journalism students and a participatory observation of the "Regret Studying Journalism" in the Douban Group,an industry related online community gathered together,we discovered the construction process and internal mechanism of this group’s professional identity,and attempted to reveal the internal reasons for this group’s falling into occupational cognitive dilemmas and internship paradoxes.The construction of professional identity for journalism students is a dynamic process full of contradictions and struggles: career expectations are limited by realistic factors such as college entrance examination scores,college awareness,and employment orientation awareness,making passive and rational choices in a seemingly active space.Ideal factors such as the exemplary role leading role of well-known journalists and media,and personal interest matching based on journalistic career labeling understanding are the main reasons for this group to choose journalism majors.In the process of entering a career,journalism students have a problem of conflict between ideals and reality in their professional cognition,and they lack a keen perception and adaptability to media change.Journalism students face dual challenges of ability and thinking in school education,fall into an idealistic situation of being too high and too few in off-campus practice,and face professional breakthrough challenges in the process of job hunting.In terms of professional value perception,journalism students are caught in a dual crisis of material and spiritual.In the tense discourse field of Chinese journalistic professionalism,journalism students try to find their own role positioning in the "mixed" professional values,but they are troubled by the difficult to meet practical needs and the need for respect and self fulfilling.The intermingled professional internships have had a contradictory impact on the ideographic and instrumental identities of journalists.On the one hand,journalism students strongly identify with journalistic ethics and ethics,as well as journalistic values in the process of practice.On the other hand,due to the impairment of labor rights and interests,weakening of core competitiveness,and lower revenue expectations,they exhibit a tendency to choose careers that are "unwilling to stick to" or even "directly flee.".Even for a few people who are interested in entering the journalism profession,there is a strong "transitional career" characteristic.With the lack of pre-vocational education,there is a mismatch between supply and demand between the professional role expectations of journalism students,the talent training goals of universities,and the talent needs of the industry.Innovating the combination of work and learning,strengthening media functions,and exemplary education may provide inspiration for enhancing the professional identity of journalism students.