论风险社会视域下新媒体对底层社会的关注——基于宜黄事件的实证分析

On attention paid to lower class by new media from perspective of risk society

新媒体作为"平民化"媒体,应该予以底层社会更多的观照。在对宜黄自焚事件进行大样本实证调研的基础上,发现新媒体通过拓宽民众诉求表达渠道和敦促诉求对象对诉求的倾听、关注,赢得了民众的信任,也因此承载起了民众更高的期待。然而新媒体自身实则有可能成为矛盾冲突激化器、批判权威后的裁决者、承载民众高期待的失信者的危险。

As kind of ＂civilian＂ media,the new media pay more attention to the lower-class people who are at the bottom of the social ladder.Based on the empirical research of some samples concerning the Yihuang Self-burning event,we find that the new media gain more trust and expectation by broadening the channels of expression and urging the public to listen to and concern with the victims in the social events.When we examine the role and function of the new media from the perspective of social risk,we find the new media actually would be involved in some risks,namely,becoming the intensifier of conflict,the judge of criticizing the authorities,and the liar who fails to live up with the expectation of the public.