Concern On Communication Ethics Of Internet Public Events

Internet is an important platform for public opinion,its communication order is the key to realize network democracy.In the process of internet public events communication,there are many chaos,such as language violence,privacy violation,false information and group polarization phenomena.This paper is to analyze the communication chaos and put forward the related solution from the perspective of communication ethics.The absence of public subject is the key factor for the ethics anomie in internet communication,especially when the law and network itself can not work well.The absence of public subject is mainly reflected in two aspects: the lack of efforts in internet communication and online community construction;the lack of moral consciousness.In the process of internet public events,the public participate in and express their views actively,but the efforts have brought chaos without enough moral awareness.This paper tries to figure out the reason of ethical misconduct from the perspectives of technology,communication subject and social environment.As for the solutions,Habermas' s “communicative rationality” theory was adopted to solve the problem of the public absence.Because the theory includes his “discourse ethics” which strongly emphasize the public as the role of communication subject and inter-subjectivity.Publicness and criticalness are the two characteristics of Habermas' s public sphere theory.Internet communication environment tends to be a public sphere to some degree,due to its publicness that the public can freely get and share information and opinions,and its criticalness.Currently the rational criticism is still missing in internet communication,but the “communicative rationality” can improve it.