Online Civic Education Research

With t he development of Interne tt echnology an d t he po pularity of Intern et a pplication,Cyber society,a whole new social formation generated.Cyber society is a social formation which is generated as a result of people’s interaction in Cyberspace based on Internet.Cyber society is a society with the property of virtual,equal and on-limits,which is the product of the interaction of society and technology in the evolution of democratic society.As citizen is the member of modern democratic society,the education for citizenship affects the future of democratic society.In theory,with the property of virtual,equal and on-limits,Cyber society provides a new fi eld domain for citizen’s prac tice;f or i nstance,it contributes to th e c ultivation of civil su bjectivity,the development of civ il publicity,the enlightenment of consc iousness of right and the practice of rights expression.However,in practice,on one side,citizen show a series of positive practice activities,sue h as network po litics a nd network su pervision;on the ot her si de.some nega tive activities appear,for example,network rumor and network violence.In other words,Cyber society raises new challenges as well as provides new opportunities for new century civil education.Cyber society is a part of the social transformation of contemporary China;public events in it e ngender a new ne twork gro up:n etwork ci tizen.Since the be ginning of t he new c entury,network public events have gone through the s tage of sprout,beginning and development,and now it is driving to maturity.In the course of the development of network public events,netizens’public participation and right expression have been developed greatly.It indicates the rise of cyber citizen.But at present stage,the undertaking of responsibility of cyber citizen is weak,which hinders maturity of cyber citizen.Cyber society is a part of modern society;cyber citizenship is a dimensionality of modern citizenship;and of course cyber democracy is a part of modern social democracy.Due to the risk characteristics and potential commercial profit of cyber soc iety and the non-rationality factor of network group,the development of network democracy encounters a lot of obstacles;so the cultivation of cybercitizen becomes the inevitable demand of the promotion of the development of network democracy.Through the cultivation of cyber citizen,we can avoid the m oral relati vism and networ k rum or du e to the risk ch aracteristics of cy ber soci ety,t he obstacles caused by network marketing and majoritarian tyranny raised by group polarization.As cyber citizen generate in network society and grow up in the evolution of network public events,its specialties make it impossible to undertake the heavy responsibility of the cultivation of cyber citizen for school education and family education.In consideration of it,the writer plan to put forward soc ial ci tizen e ducation based on network so ciety:Cyber Ci tizen Ed ucation.Cyber Citizen Education is a kin d of civil education which is based on Internet,around network public events;cater to the participants of public events,aim at cultivating rational cyber citizen in public events.Cyber Citizen Education possesses the characteristics of inter-subjectivity,dialogue and cooperation,and public participation,due to its existing in cyber society and the specialty of network society.Cyber Ci tizen Ed ucation is a kind of civil e ducation base d on Cy ber so ciety.It aim s at cultivating Cyber citizen.More specially,it aim at cultivation the Cyber citizen who owns network public awareness,the c apacity of dia logue and cooperation,and realizes the union of rights a nd responsibilities in practice.Cyber Citizen Education is a kind of social education;its success relies on the joint effort of nation,society and every citizen.Government is t he equal interlocutor in Cyber Citizen Education;website operator is the organizer of Cyber Citizen Education;and public intellectual is the g uide of Cy ber Cit izen Edu cation.In add ition,network m edia and network supervisor are also th e su bject of Cy ber Citizen Ed ucation.T hrough the o bjective an d c oncise presentence in the presentation stage of public events,the guidance in the talking stage,and the dialogue and coo peration of dia logue s tage,Cy ber Citizen Edu cation o bjects im plement its education affects in order to maximum guide netizens’ participation in public events in order and cultivate mature cyber citizen.