The Construction Process And Production Habitus Of Local Party Media Clients From The Perspective Of Field Theory

In the era of media convergence,to build a mobile news clients has become an essential measure for the transformation of traditional media,and research on news clients has also become an important part of news production research.Pierre Bourdieu,a French sociologist,proposed the Field Theory which can place news production in the theoretical framework of “News Field” for research,providing a new paradigm for news production study.At present,almost all the provincial Party newspapers in China have built its own news client platforms.In the context of the new media,the provincial Party newspapers can be regarded as representatives of traditional mainstream media,and mobile news clients can be considered as the product of the deep integration of media,so the news clients created by the local Party media are,to a certain extent,the platform where the “traditional” and the “modern”,the “old” and the “new” collide with each other.Its development and structural changes are obvious and traceable.Therefore,this paper choose the perspective of Field Theory,take Fujian Daily’s news client,the New Fujian as the research object,and use the research methods of participatory observation and in-depth interviews,to sort out the development context of New Fujian,and analyze its field construction process and the change of news production habitus of the “actors” in the field.The first part of this paper,summarize the development path of New Fujian since2014 through investigation and analysis,including the reform process of the mechanism system,technical environment,and talent team,and tries to clarify the trajectory of the Party media’s integration reform.The second part regards the New Fujian editorial department as a concrete news field,analyzes the relationship among the New Fujian editorial field,the political field and economic fields,elaborate on the current position and power relationship of the New Fujian,and then clarify New Fujian,how to achieve field communion in the conflict among fields.It is found that the user market can be regarded as combination point for the organic integration of new Fujian under the overlapping of the three fields of news,politics and influential economy.To a certain extent,the news production of New Fujian can be simply summarized as a professional news production practice based on the common demand of user market under the premise of following the political attribute.In the third part,under the influence of current technology penetration and Internet thinking on the media environment,it discusses the changes of concept of news editors;and in the context of politics,standardized news production,and multiple checks,this paper analyzes the formation process of the“habituation” of the “actors” in the editing field through deep interviews.It finds that the production habituation of the “actors” in New Fujian can be summarized as follows:following the double production bottom line of political security and content value,internalizing it as the basic rule of editing production,and forming an open practice“strategy” with an active attitude of adaptation in the process of “time” passing and“practice” accumulation,so as to cope with the changing environment.To conclude,this paper takes the theoretical perspective of “field” to analyze the mobile news clients of local Party media.On the one hand,the advantages and existing problems can be found by analyzing the construction process of the news field of the local party newspaper client and the changes in the production habitus of journalists,which is benefit for promoting the deeper integration of local Party media;On the other hand,there are relatively few studies which use field theory to analyze China’s localized news field,therefore,this paper uses field theory to study the news client of local Party newspapers,which also has certain innovative value.