Analysis Of The Community Network Participation Logic And Path

With the coming of the internet age, network becomes more and more popular in everyday life, as a special form of citizen participation, network participation is sprouting at the same time. It has been only 20 years since the internet was introduced into China, the network participation in China has grow matured gradually. More and more people choose internet as the tool of citizen participation, the study of the network participation also become a hot issue in the current research. However, most of the present researches focus on the description of the overall network participation, only few research analysed network participation at the background of community participation background. Meanwhile, the present research of community network participation is lack of theory. This study draws on the theory of network governance, according to the idea of participatory construction, this study research the ontological sense of community, based on the questionnaire survey and semi-structured interviews of the behavior and motivation of community network participation in seven suburban communities in Nanjing, this study tries to analyse the action logic of community network participation.According to the research, in terms of participation motivation, personal interests and public interests and jointly promote the participation of residents, specifically, personal interest orientation is more favorable when explains why residents are involved in the community network participation, but the extensive and lasting community network participation is mainly supported by the public interest orientation. In terms of action logic of community participation, inter-organizational trust, information communication and resource inter-dependence constitute the major factors of the community network participation, the inter-organizational trust is the foundation of ideal internet communication, and the information communication on the internet is helpful to enhance the residents’ sense of belonging of the community, promote the residents to be more positive in the community network participation, the resource inter-dependence reflects the power relations of the community participants, during the community network participation, the resource inter-dependence direct the relations of community participants. In terms of the governance objectives, community network participation is helpful to realize the transformation of the participation motivation from personal interest orientation to public interest orientation, meanwhile, community network participation also play a positive role in cultivating and shaping civility of the community residents, but from the data analysis results, the impact on community governance of the network participation is still not obvious.On the current overall situation of community participation, the boundaries of community participants is not clear, there is a big gap between the participation willingness and the actual participation behavior, from the aspect of participation types, there are more self-organized club activities than community public affairs, there is still a long distance between current community governance and the ideal situation, many factors contribute to this phenomenon, including the institutional factors and the lack of civility. Depending on its characters like convenience, fast and low cost, network attracts more and more residents to participate. Although the network participation has not yet been universal in the community, but the potential of community network participation showed in this study is still hopeful, and this is where the significance of this study lies.