The emergence of digital technology has brought tremendous changes to the media industry. This paper will discuss the impact of digitalization on the democratization and decentralization of the media industry. In the digital age, people have easy access to media through a variety of mobile devices. This lowers the threshold to join the media and encourages people to actively choose and participate in the dissemination process of media products. In this way, the discourse power of the media industry is diluted by the general public, and digitalization expands the possibilities of public democracy and resource decentralization. However, digitalization also brings limitations to the media industry, including digital inequality and algorithmic text control.

Mingyang Li. Research on the Impact of Digitalization on the Democratization and Decentralization of the Media Industry. Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences (2023) Vol. 6, Issue 20: 13-17. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJHSS.2023.062003.

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