The Construction Of Public Sphere In Micro-blog

Sina Weibo offically open it’s beta test on line in2009. And in the wake of the Weibo, China entered into an ear of microblog in2010. After the instant messaging, blog, and social network sites, as a totally new media, Weibo becomes a part of Chinese citizens’life, changing the life style, thinking method and communication way of Chinese to a great extent. A slogan that onlooking changes China was in vogue throughout the internet in a moment. It has been shown in two years since Weibo was born that, Weibo has advantages in the part of public affairs discussing compared to the traditional media even the former internet media. Weibo combines the public opinions, which can supervise and effect but independent of the public power. This dissertation quotes the theory of Habermas public sphere. And on the basis of this theory, this article mainly discussed the following issues:whether there is a foundation to construct the public area; whether the transmission model of Weibo is still apply to the theory of Habermas public sphere; Weibo constructs the dilemma of public sphere. The whole construction of this article is as following:The first part mainly reorganized the evolution, formation, and the basic function of the theory of Habennas public sphere. It also analysed the footstone of how the public sphere theory solutes the real problems, which are criticalness, publicity, and communicative rationality. Extracting the quintessence of the theory of Habermas public sphere was in order to set up codes and standards for the research of Chinese media environment and public sphere.The second part discussed the history, tradition and current situation of the public sphere in China. This part dug out the shining points of public sphere in the Chinese traditional culture via the kinds of researches, which proved that China has had the historical foundation of building public sphere. And according the survey of the Chinese politics, legal system and the traditional media, the dilemma for the traditional media to construct the public sphere has also been pointed out in this part.The third charpter technically analysed the feasibility of Weibo structuring the public sphere, and demonstrated that Weibo have the capacity to construct the public sphere from three aspects:the rise and development of Weibo, the characteristics of communication, and the condition of subject and object.The fourth charpter testified and analysed that the method and function of Weibo in the progress of constructing the public sphere, taking the current case named’the affair of Meimei Guo’as an example.Finally, summing up the above analysis, it proposed the dilemma and solution for Weibo to structuring public sphere. The dilemma included that it still dependents on the traditional media to some extent, and is lack of rationality and explorative spirit, as well as the unfair distribution of right of speak and so on. Creating better externalities, blending the new and traditional media are some of the solutions raised in the end.