The Virtual World Of Folk Expression

Public opinion on the Internet, which is characteristic with populism, irrational concept, is a part of public expression which exits in the equal and open networks, and becomes one of the most important forms of civil public opinion.There are various forms for the Internet public opinion. Besides common news board and the Internet forum, there are other characteristic forms, for example, collective hacker attacking and "the Internet wanted". In comparison with traditional forms of public opinion, the process of forming for the Online opinion is an eyeable collect of opinion and is obviously intuitionistic.The rise of the Internet public opinion in China not only ascribes to the great transition of Chinese society, but also the impede of social civil expression. According to the research, the author finds that the space of communication offered by the Internet enlarges the public sphere in China, and the cyberspace is becoming the embryonic form of public sphere. Tne Internet promotes the forming of Chinese civil society, further more, there is a interrelationship between public opinion on the Internet and civil society.For the Internet, one of the greatest improvements for Chinese politics, is offering a way for the public to express. So, the Internet public opinion, which expands the sphere of deliberative democracy, takes an important part in deliberative democracy. However, there are a few disadvantages for the Internet deliberation today, in that it can show public opinion, but can be a machine of constructing public opinion by government, at the same time. The ideal internet deliberation depends on law protection, institutional construction, cultivation of public spirits, universal education, and so forth. Further more, the Internet deliberation can not take the place of other forms of deliberation, because it just can be one form of deliberative democracy.In Chinese social movements, the Internet plays an important role in mobilization and resistance. However, the mobilization and resistance in the Internet are limited, because social movement is a sensitive topic in China, and the Internet public opinion could not be expressed in a normal environment. In social movements, the form and use of the Online public opinion, the freedom of the Internet expression hinges on the unanimity between the aim of social movement and the benefit of a state.As a part of civil expressions, the emergence and diffuseness, present and docility, control and anti-control show the relationship between the state and society in this period. An embryonic form of civil society is forming, but the power of state plays a leading role, which is still hard to change.So, the conclusions from this research are as follows: Firstly, the Internet can't play a key role in the process of political democratization in current China. Secondly, the Internet opinion could exert a great influence on the reality in some circumstance, for example it faces a special topic or there are lots of some elites participating in. Lastly, Once a mature civil society have emerged in China, and people would have more access to express in real world, the over prosperity of the Online opinion would probably become part of history.