Online Public Opinion And Public Decision-making From The Perspective Of Evaluation

More and more instances show that the political degree of Internet is deepening. Itis usual that thousands of participate in hot issue on Internet. Especially, online publicopinion plays a significant role in social interference and realistic influence in termsof decision-making. The Internet has become an important field that Chinese netizenscome together with all kinds of opinions and ideas to shape public opinion. Onlinepublic opinion as a political action means that the masses with lower middle class usethe Internet as a platform to communicate information, and express their wishes andaspirations through evaluating the social and public events. As a result, it affectspublic decision-making directly or indirectly. Moreover, online public opinion hasbecome one of important variables influencing public policy, and Chinese politicalecology is facing the transmutation.Based on a clarification on the relevant concepts and a description on thephenomena in question, the paper places it research focus on the recognition of onlinepublic opinion and public decision-making in the perspective of the evaluation theory.On the one hand, the paper theoretically develops the evaluation theory behindbetween online public opinion and public decision-making. Social evaluation activityincludes the public evaluation activity and the authoritative. Online public opinion inessence is kinds of activity about public evaluation that network group make theirwishes in inorganic way. A paradox in network public opinion will come into beingwhen it is misled by the authority and some opinion leaders so that it can no longertruly represent the network group’s benefit and need. It is necessary to promoteindividual freedom of speech in order to solve the paradox. There is aninteractive relation between network public sphere and contemporary civil society inChina. At the same time, public decision-making is virtually kinds of activity aboutauthoritative evaluation that decision makers express themselves in organic way.Public acceptance is the realistic way to decode the public decision-making paradox.On the other hand, starting from the reality the paper also analyzes the mutual evaluation between online public opinion and public decision-making. In philosophy,evaluation activity evaluates each other, which belongs to the category of reflectionfor the object. So authoritative and public evaluation activity evaluates mutually, aswell as provides the theoretical support for their intrinsic docking between the twosides. From the standpoint of the public decision-making online public opinion havesome deficiencies on democracy, scientificalness and ration. Similarly, manyquestions can be found when the public decision-making treats initiative, legitimacyand interest of online public opinion. Both of them have some problems more or less.It is the purpose of this article to seek the harmony of online public opinion andpublic decision-making. Online public opinion needs to become better from naive tomature and from spontaneous to conscious. At the same time, public decision-makingalso must change idea, repair the credibility, and ensure the effective system supply.In a word, they break up at the foot of the mountain, and at last meet at the top.At that time, they together attain deliberative democratic on network that is an idealstate under the sunshine of responsibility and tolerance.