Ideological And Political Education System In Universities Under The Environment Of Public Opinions On Internet

With the rapid development of modern technology, internet has become the fronts of public opinions, and speech on the internet is also transmitted in its unique ways to every corner of society. Its strong power has imposed extensive influences on every walks of human life including politics, economics, culture, daily live-hood and so on. Nowadays, since the study, work and life of university students are all closely connected with internet, the campus internet provides a convenient platform for the communication and academic study among faculties and students in institutions of higher education, which has become an important field for exchanges of thoughts and opinions. Also, the environment of public opinions on campus internet, composed of a variety of public voices on the internet, has become an important component of the ideological and political education in universities and colleges.Meanwhile, Marx's classical argument on the relationship between human beings and environment implies that whether the environment of public opinions on the internet is positive or negative carries a direct influence on the promotion and outcome of ideological and political education. The innovation of the system of that education and the construction of a positive environment of public opinions on the internet will advance ideological and political education so as to take a more favorable position in globalization and digitalization. Institutions of higher education take the historical responsibility to cultivate qualified constructors and successors for the course of socialist modernization. Therefore, the improvement of the environment of public opinions on campus internet carries a crucial significance for the exploration of ideological and political education.The structure of this dissertation is as follows.The Introduction poses clearly that the construction of a favorable environment of public opinions on campus internet is a major task facing the ideological and political education in universities. An improvement of that environment is a response to the hot issues of changes happening in education environment in a new era, and, as well, a vital component of ideological and political education, which carries theoretical and practical significance. Therefore, here, the author makes a relatively detailed review on the existing domestic and foreign studies on this issue and an overall judgment on these literature works.Section One is a theoretical basis of this dissertation and covers studies from the following aspects:firstly, it defines the core conception in this dissertation, i.e., Environment of Public Opinions on Campus Internet. The key points of that definition lie in the relationship between the broad sense and narrow sense of campus internet, and between the environment of public opinions inside campus and that outside campus. Besides, the openness of internet decides that the difference between the environment of public opinions inside campus and that outside campus is relative. In a word, the environment of public opinions on campus internet is an atmosphere and a structure consisting of a variety of public voices on campus internet with one of the basic phenomena as public opinions on the internet. Secondly in this section, the author mainly introduces the theoretical basis of this dissertation, including the dialectical relationship between environment and human beings in Marxism, the theory of transmission of public opinions and campus crisis theory. Marxism reveals the dialectical unity between human beings and environment in a profound sense. Similarly, an efficient implement of ideological and political education can not be carried out without a positive environment; the construction of environment can not do without the promotion of ideological and political education, either. The construction of a favorable environment of public opinions on the internet has to be based on a profound understanding of the basic laws including the non-linear divergence structure of internet transmission, emergence and development of public opinions on the internet, the phase transformation characteristics, the agenda setting theory, the "Gatekeeper" theory, etc. Thirdly, this section analyzes the dialectical relationship between public opinions on campus internet and the environment of ideological and political education. According to the interaction between environment and ideological and political education in universities, it discusses the duality of function, significance of the effect of public opinions on internet to ideological and political education and how ideological and political education in turn influence the construction of public opinions environment.Section two covers discussions on ideological and political education system in universities and its functioning pattern under the environment of public opinions. This section firstly analyzes features of environment of public opinions in universities. As a vital component of ideological and political education environment, the environment of public opinions in universities differs from other forms in the following aspects:the platform of public opinions in universities is where the platform of social public opinions originated and spread; the subject carries the features of high quality, diversity and contradictory while the object contains the special orientations and academic features and the media is fully digitalized. Further in this section, it analyzes the functioning system of the spread of public opinions toward ideological and political education. As far as the author is concerned, the influences of environment of public opinions on internet to ideological and political education lie in its ability to unify and deconstruct traditional dominating value systems. On one hand, profound ideologies, i.e. morals, law, customs and theories are originated from public opinions; on the other hand, through comments, it directly influences the existing value system. Among the specific functioning pattern of public opinions, there are population effect, expansion effect, group polarization effect, the effect of "opinion leader", "spiral of silence" and agenda setting effect, etc. The unique characteristics of internet transmission promoted these public opinion effects mentioned above. Thirdly, section two concludes the specific functioning pattern of ideological and political education under public opinions on internet including the extension of binary space, overlapping rate, decentralization, interactions and sustained rate in education processes.Section three focuses on the analysis on opportunities and challenges facing by ideological and political education system in universities under the environment of public opinions on internet. Public opinions on campus internet, existing all through the process of ideological and political work, not only makes great influence on ideological and political education in universities, but also propels the conception, subjects, objects and methods of it. At present, the environment of public opinions in universities has undertaken changes and shown new trends, for instance, there is an increase in both initiative, sensitivity among university students to get information and shift rates among objects of campus internet platform; branches and groups in campus internet increase sharply, and it becomes more difficult to control public opinions on campus internet; in addition, public opinions on campus internet is more likely to become a trigger of campus crisis as a result of increasing irrational phenomena through the media. Without doubt, the reasons trigger to the problems mentioned above are diverse; both limitations on the environment and other objective prospects should take the credit. These transformations and the complicated internet media pose a challenge to ideological and political education in universities in terms of conception, content, faculty, system, method, environment, evaluation and resources. Besides, the environment of public opinions on campus internet does have positive influence on ideological and political education in terms of content innovation, methodology improvement and outcomes.Section Four examines the innovation of ideological and political education in universities and colleges. First, the innovation has to take Marxism and other Chinese theoretical outcomes, i.e., Socialist Theories with Chinese Characteristics, as its guiding ideologies and abide by the principles of positivity, effectiveness, integrity, hierarchy and development and so on. Second, in terms of educational ideas, the awareness of equality, democracy, inclusiveness, activeness, transparency, communication and induction should be strengthened. Third, according to the theory of production and phase transformation, it is needed to value and understand the voices of grass-roots actively; topic for public discussion is supposed to set and inducted; "Gatekeeper" is required for supervision; the cultivation of "Opinion Leaders" deserves great attention to enhance guidance, and so on. Fourth, with regards to the cultivation of faculties of ideological and political education, it is required to integrate resource to develop both professional and pluralistic teachers, to promote trainings for quality improvement and to advance communication for the good of their internal and external quality. Fifth, the improvement of mechanism should be applied by the measures such as implementing the regulation of real-name admittance into campus internet strictly, constructing the regimes of news release, collection and analysis of public opinions on campus internet and emergency disposal of crisis. Sixth, it is needed to step up the construction of hard-wares of campus internet, develop the system of monitoring and filtering information, and build up fire walls.The innovations of this dissertation lie in:firstly, it concludes the campus feature of environment of public opinions. As a vital component of ideological and political education environment, the environment of public opinions in universities differs from other forms in the following aspects:the platform of public opinions in universities is where the platform of social public opinions originated and spread; the subject carries the features of high quality, diversity and contradictory while the object contains the special orientations and academic features and the media is fully digitalized. Secondly, it covers discussions on functioning patterns of ideological and political education system under the environment of public opinions. Public opinions on internet influences ideological and political education through the transmission effect including population effect, expansion effect, group polarization effect, the effect of "opinion leader", "spiral of silence" and agenda setting effect, etc. Thirdly, the dissertation explores the special disciplining of ideological and political education under the environment of public opinions on internet, including the extension of binary space, overlapping rate, decentralization, interactions and sustained rate in education processes. Fourthly, it takes a systematic look of innovations of ideological and political education under public opinions on internet. The reasons which trigger to public opinions are many and only by considering the overall situation rather than one factor, could the problems and challenges be solved. Therefore, this dissertation discusses the innovation from the teaching concept, contents, methods, media and construction of teaching faculty of ideological and political education under the environment of public opinions on internet.