Research On The Audience Participation Of Micro-blog In Criminal News

With the open and interactive nature of social media,the audience’s right to speak has been released,and audience’s participation in news has become the norm.The crime news report has the characteristics of scene and story,which is one of the types of news that the audience is keen to participate in.In this paper,the “Hangzhou woman missing case”,a major criminal case that took place in July 2020 between intimate relationships,is taken as the research object and Sina Weibo as the research platform,using Content analysis to study the behavior and characteristics of audience participation in criminal case reporting,to examine the degree of audience interaction in the process of news participation,and to explore whether the audience’s active participation contributes to the arrival of truth Then it analyzes the problems of the audience’s news participation in this kind of case report,and puts forward some corresponding suggestions.The main body of this paper first analyzes the trend of media reports and the distribution of micro-blog audience’s views in the “Hangzhou women missing case”.According to the development of the case,the author divides the case into three stages: the investigation stage,the detection stage and the follow-up stage.Through the analysis of the development and changes of the audience’s news participation in these three stages,we can find that the participation level is not high at the initial stage of the case,but as the media keep updating the case progress,from the third day of the case report,the engagement of the audience grew,peaking on July 23,2020,when the police notified the suspect.In this process,the media occupies a strong dominant position,the views expressed by the audience are closely linked to the media coverage of the theme.It can be seen that the attention and heated discussion of the case is the result of the joint efforts of the media and the public.In this paper,through analysis,in this case,the audience’s participation in the news has three characteristics: the focus of discussion shifts with the process of the case,the audience’s participation in the news is interactive,and the audience’s participation has gone through a rational-irrational-rational process.Secondly,this paper further analyzes the relationship between audience participation and media coverage,and tests the content and the mode of media coverage,as well as the subject of audience comment by Pearson.The results show that there is a significant correlation between the subjects and methods of media reports and the audience’s participation in news There is also a positive correlation between the way of media reporting and the subject of audience comments,in which the source is positively correlated with the audience participation.Based on this,this article takes the media report subject,the report way as the independent variable,the audience news participation as the dependent variable,has carried on the Regression analysis to this.The results show that both the subjects and the ways of media coverage have positive effects on audience participation in news.Among them,the audience participation rate of original report is very high,this case is just at the beginning confusing,the public urges the truth unanimously,the original report because of its timeliness has attracted the audience’s high participation.The study found that the media actively create a dialogue space,the media also exist inter-media agenda-setting.There is a strong interaction between the audience and the media,between the audience and the audience.The interaction of the audience participation makes the exchange of views among various parties frequent,and the audience’s participation in news becomes higher and higher.Finally,the multi-subject accelerates the arrival of news truth in the process of dialogue.Finally,this paper finds out that in the “Hangzhou women missing case”,there are problems in the audience’s news participation,such as the spread of rumors,irrational participation,entertainment of fear,and interference in judicial procedures.Therefore,this paper puts forward some suggestions to regulate audience participation in crime news: first,the audience themselves should improve their media literacy,abide by moral ethics,respect law enforcement procedures,avoid subjective speculation;Second,the media should take the initiative to create dialogue space,increase text proximity and expand information,actively grasp the direction of public opinion,to achieve rational dialogue.