A Study On Internet Users’ Participation In Public Decision-making From The Perspective Of Emotional Sociology

In public decision-making and the public sphere related research,rationality is regarded as the prerequisite and necessary quality for individuals to participate in public decision-making,while emotion is often dubbed as "troublemaker" and "public enemy of rationality".However,there is a distinct elitist streak to such views.Although rationalism has integrated the "greatest good" in the public interest with its impartiality,it has failed to grasp the demands of the people at the bottom of society and the political fringe,resulting in blind areas and misunderstandings in public decision-making.Empowered by technology,scattered netizens gather on Weibo and other social media to express their opinions on the three-child policy and its supporting measures,express their own demands and vent their pressure.People in similar dilemmas construct emotional discourse of pressure in the Internet and form a "community of stress".They share similar emotion and attitudes.With the reality of writing difficulties of emotional and inflammatory discourse,emotional resonance of Internet users is stimulated and emotional resonance effect is produced.In this process,netizens have been awakened to their subjective consciousness.They use heated words and their reality experience to call on government decision-making departments to take care of social reality,and face up to "reasonable mistakes" and "common misunderstandings" in public decision-making,and timely correct public decision-making.In this study,the issue of having three children on Weibo is taken as an individual case.On the basis of summarizing and analyzing the emotional form and generation and diffusion mechanism of netizens’ low childbearing intention,the paper reflects on the intrinsic value of emotion in public decision-making,explores the feasible path of making emotional energy to be the power of modifying public decision.And provides reference for the implementation of public decision,such as the three-child policy.