Trial by Media in the Context of Online New Media: An Analysis Based on "Death of Jiang Ge"

Abstract

At the end of 2017, Chinese student Jiang Ge was murdered in Japan. With the help of the online we-media Mi Meng and others, there is widespread attention in China. The moral condemnation by online we-media of Liu Xin, another victim of the case, and online violence has become another case that the media makes the judge before the judiciary. Trial by media is not a new subject, and in the cyber age, especially with the increasingly prosperous development of online media, the “trial by media” power cannot be underestimated. This article, taking the “Death of Jiang Ge” as a perspective, briefly analyzes the causes and characteristics of the trial by online we-media in the Internet age, and puts forward some thoughts on the prevention and control strategies of the “trial by media” in the future.