Democracy And The Mass Media Interaction Research

The mass media is a very important bridge and link between the state and the society. The spread of ideology, political system, policies, laws and regulations, and its public recognition and trust are inseparable from the mass media’s political propaganda. On the other hand, what a large population of people is thinking about and to construct the bottom‐up social public opinion is also inseparable from the spread of the mass media’s political and social information. Only the social public opinion has the objectivity, can the political superstructure be found in the popular opinion, and formulates, corrects and creates the law and policy. Only the policies and laws are based on the popular opinion, can political input and output benign interact and the political process be said to be democratic.The dissertation is composed of introduction and text. The introduction mainly introduces the background, the significance of the topic, the existing research situation, the innovation, the insufficiency, research methods. The text is composed of five chapters, the conclusion and the postscript.The first chapter discusses the basic theory of democracy and the mass media, mainly about the existing research results of scholars, which is the theoretical foundation of the dissertation.The second chapter studies the change and development of Chinese mass media management system from the planned era to the reform and opening up, which is the institutional environment of mass media exerting various functions. Secondly, it discusses the relationship between different forms of media and political communication. Finally, it researches on the Chinese current political input and output. Specially, the Communist Party of China itself is also a kind of political media. This chapter is used the current research achievements of scholars in the view of communication. From the view of democracy, the positive role of mass media in democratic politics, mainly increases political information, changes in the system of the mass media agenda setting, the government’s positive response and the publicity and influence on expansion of the citizen.The third chapter discusses the deficiency in interacting between the Chinese mass media and the democratic political and analyzes the factors of restricting. The first section discusses the flooding phenomenon prevails under the background of mass media. Everyone has two sides, for this phenomenon, on one hand, it can attract the readers and the editorial policy turns to the preferences of the audience for mass media marketing management, which is from the bottom to construct the necessary premise of public opinion; about the negative effect, on the other hand, yellow news is the objective fact. But the governance on yellow journalism can not give up everything. It need to further deepen the mass media management system and ensure that the press can autonomously manage. The second part discusses the propaganda matters of socialist ideology and national policies, laws and regulations under the background of market economy. The third section discusses the insufficiencies of constructing social opinion consensus from the bottom, which resulted in the shortage in interaction and socialist democracy failed to fully display.The fourth chapter discusses the mutual relationship between Western democratic political system and the mass media, which include the legal conditions to the political responsibility of the mass media, the enterprise internal news editorial policy, occupation ethics, common ideal and belief conditions. The last section talks about the watergate scandal in the history of the United States from five aspects.The fifth chapter mainly talks about the possibility of Chinese democratic politics and mass media from many perspectives.The conclusion part reviews and summarizes the whole content of the dissertation, which can be classified into five specific points.