The Department of Network and New Media was officially established in June 2018, and the enrollment of Network and New Media started in September 2016.

The Department of Network and New Media currently has 10 full-time faculty members, including one professor, four associate professors, eight teachers with doctoral degrees, and seven teachers with overseas study background.

The department adheres to the motto of "Don't forget the people", establishes the ideology of running the school in accordance with the characteristics of the profession and the laws of the discipline, and follows the development idea of being based on the Central Plains, serving the society, strengthening the characteristics and striving for first-class. It is mainly reflected in three aspects: 1:

1. development orientation: facing the central and western regions, well-known in the province. It has built up three specialty areas such as public opinion analysis, media operation and communication planning.

2. cultivation goal: to cultivate composite talents with high cultural level, strong professional skills and great innovation ability, and to meet the industry's demand for talents in content production, application development and industry management.

3. Service Direction: First, various Internet institutions and new media units; second, traditional news and publishing units in the transition of media integration development; third, government agencies and propaganda departments of enterprises and institutions.

In the future development of the discipline, the Department of Network and New Media will further clarify the objectives, update the ideas, improve the program, optimize the structure of the faculty, pay particular attention to the internal construction, close to the frontier of the times, and strive to improve the quality of talent training to meet and adapt to the needs of society.