On The Function Of Ideological And Political Education Virtual Society

The arrival of the internet marks a significant point in human history. It’s not only a new form of communication and technology, but also a new way of living as human beings, and a new form of existence in society. In the world of internet, people and interactions between them construct an objectively existing virtual society which definitely highlights the problem of how to manage it. Since the virtual society is closely associated with the real world, the result of managing the virtual society directly influences the stability and harmony of the real world. Thus, to manage and construct virtual society isn’t merely a technical issue, but a complex system of social engineering which requires us to explore the art of managing it from multiple angles as well as dimensions, and the effectiveness of expanding the function of ideological and political education is one vital part of it.This essay begins by clarifying virtual society’s concept, analyzing the decentralized, time-transcending, open and unlimited features that bring us managerial difficulties, differentiating with the real world which includes multi values, increasing risks of losing control of consensus, the spreading of negative attitude and less inspection the external has on one. The way to solve these four difficult problems is to expand the function of ideological and political education in new frontier during the new period. It realizes the function of the integration of ideology, the guidance of public opinion, mentality of conservation and self-discipline, and promotes the flexible management of virtual society.The research is divided into three levels; the first level is the statement of the theoretical foundation of ideological and political education’s function in managing virtual world. This consists of the relative theory of the ideological and political education’s position and function, media control in communication, theory of macro social effect of public communication, and the theory of Harmonious Society as well as the theory of virtual society management of Hu Jintao. The second level is the deep analysis of a virtual society’s concepts, features and the meaning of functioning ideological and political education. It points out the fit of virtual society management and ideological and political education; it academically reviews the function expansion of ideological and political education in managing virtual society, and proposes the influence of these four functions possesses complete content structure and process structure which is an organic whole.The third level is the specific research of how to effectively develop the function of the integration of ideology, guidance of public opinion, mentality of conservation and self-discipline. This can be broken down into four parts. One is the analysis of the challenge that mainstream ideology faces in virtual society, learn the inspiration on security of ideology of our nation from the foreign regime changes and explore the fundamental aim and integrated path of the ideology function of ideological and political education involved in virtual society management. The second is the analysis of the difficulty of controlling public sentiment in managing a virtual society, the discussion of building judging system of public sentiment, and the proposal of the way the leading function of public sentiment of ideological and political education in managing virtual society. The third is the analysis of performance and cause of negative attitudes in a virtual society, and the discussion of the path to grace of attitude in virtual society on the basis on the feasibility and necessity of grace of attitude. The fourth is the analysis of necessity of the function of self-discipline in virtual society, and the exploration of the paths of functioning self-discipline of ideological and political education in managing virtual society from the aspect of net citizens and websites.