美国超本地新闻网站之公民参与性研究%3a与美国地方级主流报纸网站的对比研究.pdf

摘要 数字化传播技术的革新使得媒介环境变得异常复杂。传播工具层出不穷且日益智能便 于掌握。普通人越来越倾向于使用互联网获得信息，并分享自己的创作，从而参与到新闻 传播领域中来。参与式新闻时代的到来以及由于新媒体技术降低了新闻传播的门槛，以往 消极被动的信息消费者如今变得十分积极活跃。越来越多的传播新生物开始涌现出来，超 本地新闻网站就是其一。 作为一种新媒体传播现象，超本地新闻学在美国如火如荼地开展了长达数年之久。国 外的学者早已注意到并十分重视对超本地新闻网站的研究，但是国内新闻传播学领域没有 足够重视之，因而对此的专门研究也十分滞后。本研究将采用内容分析的方法把超本地新 闻网站与地方级主流报纸网站或传统报纸网站进行对比，观察超本地新闻网站上公民参与 的可能性、便利性以及公民参与力度。此外，本文也将分析社会和市场等其他因素对公民 参与过程的影响。 研究发现，超本地新闻网站比传统报纸网站更主动地邀请用户贡献内容，同时超本 地新闻网站更加重视用户的参与行为。研究还表明，超本地新闻网站与传统报纸网站的信 息分发传递体系都为用户参与传播提供了便利的渠道。 关键词：参与式新闻学；超本地新闻；参众；地方级主流报纸网站 I Abstract Digital technology innovation has made the media environment extremely complex. Mass communication tools are emerging endlessly and becoming smarter and smarter. Ordinary people tend to use the Internet to get information and share their creation. Furthermore, they are even willing to participate in the communication. With the arrival of participatory journalism, information consumers who acted as a negative role in the past have become active. Many new media startups have sprung up in recent years, and one of them is hyperlocal news websites. Hyperlocal news media has blossomed all around America for several years. Being an significant and special journalism phenomenon in America, hyperlocal journalism has already been noticed and researched by many foreign scholars. However, these new startups haven‟t attracted the attention of Chinese researchers, almost empty. This study compares hyperlcoal news sites with local traditional news sites or legacy media sites in the same geographic areas. The study intends to determine how the hyperlocal news sites differ in the possibility, convenience and participants ‟ controllability. The study also discusses social and market factors which might affect citizen‟s participation. With content analysis, the result suggests tha