Digital News Conference
Digital News, Social Change & Globalization
Code 304T
Title Changes of Value Orientation of Online News and Their Influence
Author Tiance DONG
Affiliation College of Journalism and Communication, Jinan University, Guangzhou, PR China
Abstract Orientation of news value determines the development trend of news communication. Since the emergence of internet media, a series of changes have taken place in the value orientation of online news, which deserves our attention. The changes are embodied in three aspects: (1) connotations of news value criteria are broadened, (2) the spotlight of value orientation varies, (3) news value criteria have been developed. The reasons of such changes include: (1) internet technologies provide support, (2) media competition has become a present drive, (3) social development generate new demands for news. As for the China's journalism, the changes of value orientation of online news play an active part, such as the propaganda-oriented news report has been replaced by the information-oriented one and the area of news report is widely broadened, while these changes also bring some negative effect which can not be negligible and must be piloted to a correct road, such as mediocrity, incitement and fragmentation.
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