New Media Age Of Our Democratic Participation

With the development of information and digital technology, the environment ofcommunication has been changed deeply. In New Media Era, with transmission diversity, subjectpluralism, real-time transmission, far-reaching communication effect, which not only realize thecommunication “from all the people to all the people”, but also change of Chinese citizens’democratic participation attitude in political field. Coming of New Media Time, enhance theawareness of citizen democratic participation, but also challenge the out of date conception ofgovernment and working mode.Democratic participation emphasis on that citizen is the real subject of state power, andpossessed the undoable participation right of affair which related to immediate interests inpolitical life. Since ancient Greece democracy, democracy and participation are inseparable,prettification set at hear of traditional democratic idea. Looking at the history of the developmentof modern democracy, the concept based on expands of political participation, regardless on thetransaction from absolutism to representative democracy, from limited election to competitiveelection, and citizens’ political rights enlarge in concept and range.Western theory of democratic participation has gradually developed going with the newmedia technology spring up and it is the new tendency of development of contemporary westerndeveloped state. The theory inherits criticizing to representative democracy by political experttheory, and it is necessary supplementary and improvement to representative democracy insteadof denying it. The new media also has propounding impact on our political life. Out governmenthas to face numbers of problem in the process of guide citizen democratic participation, alsoalong with the improvement of citizen participation awareness, the disorder in these processappeared.This thesis based on New Media Era, from the point of democratic participation, discussesthe role and impact of new media on China’s democratic participation. This thesis includes sixparts. The fist one is introduction, in this part mainly expounds the reason and significance ofchoosing the topic、the current situation and trend of research about this topic at domestic andabroad、the plan of thesis research, and so on. Chapter one defines the concept of democraticparticipation and new media, mainly introduces the history of democratic participation and political role of new media. Chapter two talks about New Media broaden the way to realizeChina Democratic Participation and analyze the character of New Media Era through expansionof China’s democratic participation class. Chapter three analyze current situation of China’sdemocratic participation, include the opportunity and challenge we faced in the New Time Era.Chapter four briefly introduce the experiences of western democratic participation in the NewTime Era and aim to provide practice experience. Chapter five based on the current situation ofChina’s democratic participation, the feature of New Media Time and western practicalexperience, explore China’s democratic participation method in New Media Time, and improveChina’s democratic participation in the new era.The basic proposition form of this thesis is democratic participation enriches the key part ofdemocratic politics, represents the direction of modern democratic politics. In the New MediaEra, according to our advantages and characteristics of new media, with the help of the newmedia platform, expand citizens’ participation in political life in the orderly, cultivate citizenconsciousness and democracy awareness, improve the ability of civil main participation, that isdevelopment strategy we should followed.