The influence of microblog Sina over the negative news in China during 2013 Cover Image

Влиянието на микроблога „Сина“ върху негативните новини в Китай през 2013 г.
The influence of microblog Sina over the negative news in China during 2013

Author(s): Chun Han
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Media studies, Communication studies
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: new media; micro blog; micro blog platform Sina; citizen journalism; investigative journalism

Summary/Abstract: The paper named tries to explore the development of New Media especially the catalog –micro blog in China through the analysis of cases on the famous micro blog platform Sina during 2013. Since the increase of the influence of microblog Sina, more and more professiona ljournalists become active in using the microblog to collect news sources, publish their news work in order to gain more attention for their medias. On the one hand, the rise of civic awareness of Chinese and the convenient publishing and spreading function of microblog lead to the boom of negative news on micro blog Sina and promote the citizen journalism in China. On the other side, micro blog Sina also provides a good platform for journalists to do investigative journalism,which also helps the government to fight the corruption and curb the environmental pollution.