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New Media And Chinese Citizen Participation

Posted on:2011-12-08Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:L H YanFull Text:PDF
GTID:1118360305983513Subject:Communication
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Entering the new century, China has become one of the largest economic countries in the world, political system and democratic development is also progressing. From the NPC's legislation in macro-area to administrative process in medium-area and then to the specific micro-governance, the practice of citizen participation has been made the basic temperament and spirit of democracy spread to the broader corner in the social transformation.At the same time, with the arrival of the information society and the development of the Internet, human being has entered a brand-new information age. In China, new media communication has been increasingly widespread. New media, such as the Internet and mobile phone, have been developing rapidly and become the major vehicles of communication, and thus gradually become a significant channel of expression and participation for China's citizens. Especially in recent years, with the emergence and bloom of Internet, mobile phones and other new medias, the channels of citizen participation become more convenient, extensive and interactive. We can see strong momentum of Chinese citizens participate, and the new landscape of "Internet Politics".Through the Internet and other new medias, people act a series of vivid case of citizen participation scene in new media age. From "the Bombing of Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia Event" in 1998 spured the rise of "Prosperity Forum", to the reflection of public right to information in the SARS crisis, to the "Sun Zhigang Incident", "Huang Jing case" Etc. demonstrated the concerns and appeals of basic human rights, and to the recent "cat abuse case", "Tiger Zhou", "hide and seek incident", "Deng Yujiao case", highlighted the awareness of civil rights and participation consciousness. The concernence of Citizens' self rights has extended to others, and the awareness of the legitimate interests of individuals extended to the public interest of society and the collective. This shows New media, especilly the Internet plays an important role in the process of public opinion's rise and the practice of Chinese citizens participation, enabling the citizen participation has become an important social fact in public life.However, Internet, mobile phones and other new media, played an important role in the massive wave of public opinion, and in the practice of growing citizen participation. At the same time, the new media has brought new confusion. So, how to examine the complicated media landscape and find the potential power structure relations in them?Just from this point, the paper starts from the theory association between mass media and, builds the theory of citizen participation in new media age, and examine it in the chinese reality. Meanwhile, the practice of Chinese citizen participation in new media has its own characteristics, including the basis of development and the real dilemma. Following this analysis, Finally, the paper gives thinking about the trend of China's civil society and rethinks the citizen participation in new media age, this is the foothold of this paper.Specifically, the thesis is divided into six chapters explore new media and citizen participation, mainly focusing the theory and practice of Chinese citizen participation in new media age.The first chapter, "Introduction" section, Consists of three parts, It gives a Brief introductionabout background, significance, problems and difficulties, the current situation of research, and the definition of three definitions:new media, new media age, citizen participation.The second chapter concerns the theory association and development of citizen partipation in new media age. Starting on the, finds the theory association between new media and citizen participation. At the same time, Cardings the citizen participation from the West to China's in the history. On the basis, explaines the citizen participation in traditional media age and new media age, answers why I choose the citizen participation as the research object.The third chapter focus on the theory construction of Chinese citizen participation in new media age and it's expression. The subject of participation—"media citizen", the paradigm of participation—"public deliberation", the goal of participation—the social justice, from the three points, it builds the theory construction of citizen participation in media age. And analysises the typical cases to explain them.The fourth chapter Examines the theory of citizen participation in the media age. It investigates the obstacles of theory construction in Chinese context. Mainly from the cultural logic, system logic and the logic of the market examines the subject of participation, paradigm of participation, the goal of participation.The fifth Chapter analyzes the basis and the reality difficult of Chinese citizen participation practice. The political commitment of ruling party, the information disclosure system of government, and the improvement of non-governmental organizations, we still have reason to expect:"expression"and "participation"has become a kind of national values and way of life of citizen, and become the basis for the development of citizen participation. However, we can not ignore the exists of "digital divide" in new media age and the lack of "public reason", they give the reality difficulties of citizen participation.The last chapter discusses the trend of Chinese citizen participation and the rethinking of citizen participation in new media age. With the economic development, institutional transformation and the improving awareness of civil rights, to some extent, it means that civil society in China has quietly shifted. But we still need to find the hidden structure of power relations through the complex landscape of new media. This just is the purpose of this study and the result.Finally, It must be pointed that the essence of "democracy" is the pursuit of equal participation opportunities and co-expression rights. Based on this, there is an optimistic view of discussions process between media and citizen participation, although including collision and kinky. Because the process of analysis just is "participation".
Keywords/Search Tags:New Media Age, citizen participation, civil society
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