The Impact Of Micro-blog Communication On The Public Sphere Of Our Country Society

In July2006the first Micro-Blog Twitter was created, we began to move in a new era of Micro-Blog. With the following of SMS, BBS, IM software, Blog and SNS, Micro-Blog is changing our lives, our means of communication, and even the scope of our companion. Is the communication model of Micro-Blog applicable to the public sphere which is proposed by Habermas? And can the communication media for the Micro-Blog be regarded as a truly effective "public domain"?The paper taking the contemporary Chinese society as the background, with the communication characteristics of Micro-Blog and the theory of public domain of Habermas as the entry point and the strong point, and with the necessary conditions of public domain, analyzed the positive and negative influences that Micro-Blog communication impact on our society public sphere. At the same time, from the point of Micro-Blog communication, tried to put forward the development solution to consummate our country public sphere development.This thesis consists of an introduction and five chapters. The first chapter is about the definition of Micro-Blog and the concept of public sphere which is used in this paper and the applicability between Micro-Blog and public sphere. And then combed the development process of Micro-Blog, analyzed its communication form, to provide a point of discussion to the influences. It also discusses the theory of the public sphere, combined with the actual situation of our country to discuss our social public domain structure form. In the finally of the first chapter, analyzed the relationship of Micro-Blog communication and public sphere. In the second and the third chapter, the thesis was from positive and negative aspects of Micro-Blog communication to discuss the impact of our social public field. In the fourth chapter, this paper stood in the perspective of the usage, as well as macro management and media responsibility, tries to put forward the suggestions of how to use Micro-Blog to build social domain better. At the end of the paper, has reflected and prospected about the development of Micro-Blog communication and public sphere.