Television Mediation At The Perspective Of Sociology Of Law

Mediation to resolve civil disputes in China has a history of thousands of years.Mediation in China not only has a profound cultural foundation and socialbackground, but also conforms Chinese "harmony is very valuable" legal and culturaltraditions, so it is called the "Oriental experience". Mediation has played a major rolein resolving social conflicts and disputes, and it is also beneficial to social harmonyand stability.At present, China is in a dramatic social transition period, with thistransformation, people’s lifestyles, production methods, patterns of behavior, and alsovalues have been changed obviously. At the same time, the period of social transformationcaused by all kinds of social conflicts and disputes, appearing wide range of trends. Inthe face of more and more numerous and complicated social conflicts and disputes,litigation cannot bear the heavy burden, and it is not likely an appropriate resolvingmanner. In such a background, the public functions of the television media have hadbeen huge changes. On the basis of information dissemination function provides thecommunity with conflicts and disputes mediation, resulting in a new model ofmediation-Television Mediation. The recent past, Television Mediation programs ledto social programs booms. This type of television programs aim to resolve the mass ofconflicts and disputes, create a ratings peak, even has been endorsed by the majorityof the people. In today’s social transformation stage, Television Mediation retains theadvantage of People’s Mediation. With television media, not only cater to the needs ofthe public awareness and emotion, more importantly, Television media using its socialstatus makes public service Television Mediation achieved certain credibility. As anew form of People’s Mediation, Television Mediation provides a new channel forresolving social conflicts and disputes.Of course, Television Mediation has many legal issues, such as mediation legalqualifications of the subject, problems of objectifying subjects, the clients’ privacy comeout into the open, the superficiality of mediation agreements, the false of mediationagreement, and the limitations range of mediation. The main reasons of TelevisionMediation are laws are unclear and Television Mediation is difficult to obtain judicial confirmation. How to complete the legislation, to regulate Television Mediationorganizations and staff; how to improve Television Mediation procedures mechanisms, toenhance the execution of the mediation agreements; how to perfect transition mechanismfrom Television Mediation to People’s Mediation, to strengthen the mediation effectsbecome the ’’guideposts’’ and ’’direction standard’’ in the development of TelevisionMediation programs.In this paper, Jiangxi Satellite TV "Gold Mediation" is taken for example, toresearch the operation mode, analyze the composition, count the range of conflictsand disputes, study the procedures and effects, and even make a case study. Finallysummarize the reasons for the success of "Gold Mediation", so it can providetheoretical and practical reference values for the development of China’s TelevisionMediation.