News Reports on Misjudged Cases in New Media and Coping Strategies in China
The speed with which news spreads today is moving web-savvy Chinese further away from traditional channels of news communication and closer towards the Internet where news is posted and spread as promptly as it can be typed via new media such as WeChat, a social messaging app. In the communication process of the news concerning wrongful convictions of major criminal cases, it is found that a completely brand-new news framework is formed in which grievances are overemphasized in these cases but analysis of why the innocent are wrongly convicted and reflections on how to prevent wrongful court verdicts are seldom mentioned. The reasons for this phenomenon lie in development of new media and awakening of civic awareness. More importantly, there are some problems with judicial system itself. It is believed that only by initiating judicial reform and restoring peoples confidence in the judicial system can news reports concerning wrongful convictions achieve objectivity and fairness. Only by understanding these features possessed by new media can the government better regulate and monitor the spread of new media so that it is more likely to harness new media and establish a more harmonious society in the long term.
New media Wrongful convictions News frame Judicial reform
CHEN Wen-yu
School of Public Administration, Hohai University, Nanjing, P.R.China, 210098
国际会议
加纳
英文
638-642
2017-11-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）