A Comparative Research Of Official Media And Internet Civilian Opinion On Diaoyu Islands

April,17th,2012(Beijing time), Shintaro Ishihara, governor of Tokyo, made a speechin the USA that Japanese government had decided to buy Diaoyu Islands(Japanese namecalled Senkaku Islands·) from private hands. Once the comment was published, theresponse to it, weather the government or the civilian, was tremendous. Territory issue hasaffected the most susceptive nerves of Chinese people.This research aims to start from the comparison of official media and internet civilianopinion, use <china daily> as the representative of official media, Kady community asrepresentative of internet civilian opinion, trying to analyze the responses and feathers ofthe two about Diaoyu Islands during April17thto November30th,2012. On this basis, theresearch tries to make recommendations to the guidance of public opinions, and analyzethe living space and behaviors of internet public space and internet we media.Internet is changing the traditional mode of communication in China. People are notsatisfied of receiving messages passively any more, but turn to the Internet as a morecomprehensive and effective way. The mutual complementation and effect of officialmedia and internet civilian opinion will bring new image and bigger discourse space forthe environment of Chinese public opinion.