From October 16 to 17, the 2021 Academic Annual Conference of the China Journalism History Society was held in Shenzhen. With the theme of "New Liberal Arts and Future Communication: Building Journalism and Communication with Chinese Characteristics in the New Era", more than 700 scholars published the latest academic research results on the current professional construction and discipline development of journalism and communication. The participants believed that the development of media technology has brought opportunities and challenges to the cultivation of talents in the discipline of journalism and communication, but due to the inherent openness of this discipline, strengthening the integration between this discipline and different disciplines is one of the development directions.
Professor Wang Runze, President of the China Journalism History Society and Vice Dean of the School of Journalism of Chinese Min University, elaborated on the short-lived disciplinary history and far-reaching social impact of journalism under the title of "Innovation of Journalism Knowledge System in the Transformation of Information Society". Wang Runze believes that in the context of the transformation of the information society caused by technology, the positioning, content and framework of journalism knowledge should be rethought, and the innovation of the news knowledge system will be an important issue in future journalism research. In the context of the new liberal arts, in the era of the interconnection of all things and the media of all things, how journalism has emerged into a new core concept and basic problem from the perspective of "becoming a leader in the new liberal arts" and "interdisciplinary glue", not only completing the upgrading of journalism, but also playing an important leading role in the development of interdisciplinary disciplines and the construction of new liberal arts.
Hu Baijing, vice president of Chinese University and professor of the School of Journalism, said with the title of "Opening the Future in the Historical Narrative" that historical research is the foundation of journalism and communication research, and it still has important reference value for future academic research. He believes that scholars of journalism and communication should maintain an enterprising spirit on historical and theoretical issues.
Professor Chen Changfeng, Executive Vice Dean of the School of Journalism and Communication at Tsinghua University, focused on the problem of algorithms in the digital age and discussed the "algorithmic use" in information dissemination from a normative perspective. Chen Changfeng believes that in today's "algorithm society", the invisible logic of algorithms profoundly affects all aspects of society. How to disassemble the black box of the algorithm and how to require the algorithm's makers to "make good use" of the technology should be the topics that will be valued in the future information dissemination.
Professor Sui Yan, Dean of the School of Journalism at the Communication University of China, discussed the tension of information modernity from the perspective of accelerating social and mass communication. Sui Yan said that the accelerated development of digital technology and post-industrial society has provided the soil for the emergence of the era of cluster communication, and the transformation of information production methods triggered by cluster communication has also changed social production relations.
The annual meeting was hosted by the Chinese Journalism History Society and Shenzhen University, and hosted by the School of Communication of Shenzhen University and the Research Center for Media Integration and International Communication of Shenzhen University.