Internet Age Credibility Of The Government

The rise of the Information and Communication Technology and the development of Computer-mediated Communication (CMC) were the important symbol for the last century and humankind' s history tenor. Especially, the Net-evolution infiltrate into every aspect of social activities. It also changed the living habits and political behavior. The whole world enters into the network age. In this age, the activity of the network world provide the new way for people to deal with various private business and public business, making the people' s activity have more vitality in realistic world. The network world doesn' t divorce from reality world, it created a new way of society association, set up a kind of new society relation form, even can surmount the activities and social relations of the realistic world in some aspects.Firstly ,this text takes the characteristic of network ages and the grows of network public realm as the argument background , liquidating the conception and the theories foundation of the public trust in government .Afterward taking the "South China Tiger Affairs" as the individual case that happened at zhenping County in shan' xi province, analyze the reason why the public trust in government was lapsed under the system theory, and then discuss the rebuilding of the public trust in government under positivism.This text argument and analyze following main standpoints: The first, the theories foundation of the in government is according to the social contractual theories and the trust- surrogate theories. The increase of public trust in government can vindicate the legitimacy of government and promote the efficiency of governance. The second, the public needs that brought by social change in the network age was made the public' s expectation of government to rise. But for the government self-benefit, the public realm out of the government' s control is the ultimately reason for the lost of public trust in government in network. The third, the government should take the institutional transform as the jumping-off point, making use of "double blade sword" of network, rebuilding the public trust in government.