A Study Of Political Integration In The Context Of New Media

The dissertation is to study the political integration in new media background. As a developing country, China is undergoing a transformation. It can share the world's technological development, meanwhile there're some shortcomings in institution, culture etc. This leads to certain conflict. "Political integration" and "new media" are two key words to the conflict and the transformation.There are two perspectives of political integration study. One is studying the relations within different countries. Another is studying the internal problems of one state. The first perspective is a traditional perspective. The second one is due to the rise of developing countries. The perspective of this paper is the second one. It concerned with internal problems of the country. The behavior integration is the micro-level of political integration of China today. Institutional designing is the meso-level. And construction of value system is the Macro-level of the political integration.The impact of new media was shown as two sides of the coin. It brings risks to political integration, makes integration more difficult and reduces the effect of integration. It also affects the sustainability of integration. Meanwhile, new media provides new meanings of integration. It injects more power to the political integration. The trial of more ways of using new media should be emphasized, based on the understanding of the risk with the new media and thus, prevention is on the agenda.This dissertation consists of two parts. The first part mainly probes into the basic conception, political integration and new media, chapter one and chapter two included. The second part analyzes the use of new media in political integration and risk prevention of it, chapter three and chapter four included.Exordium:Old problem and new challenge:the political integration in new media background. Beginning with the impact of new media to the society, it shows the studying background and related research. The political integration is an old problem. The emerging of new media brings up new challenge. This dissertation will answer two questions, what is the political integration and how new media influences it. Chapter One:Structure, process and conversion of political integration. This chapter is focus on structure studying. The subject of political integration includes integration sender and integration partner. The object of political integration includes fixed object and changing object. There are four ways of doing political integration, such as thoughts, organizations, institutions and activities. The process of integration includes input process, output process, decision-making process and feedback process. This chapter also exposes the forms of political integration and their function. They can be distinguished with five criterions, such as carrier, sustainability and the role of integration sender.Chapter Two:new media:the new environment to political integration. This chapter is focus on the features of new media. Firstly, it shows the relations between politics and media, especially the traditional media. Media contributes to political socialization. It shapes the image of the organization. It helps to construct public sphere. Secondly, it reveals the impacts of new media. It intensifies the influence of the traditional media in some way. And it surpasses the traditional media in another way. Finally, the discussion of the impacts of new media to the form of political integration is also mentioned. It enables integration form in more diverse ways.Chapter Three:From special cases to common things:the use of new media in political integration. This chapter is focus on the use of new media and its active effects. However, these active effects also include negative influence. In the input process of political integration, new media makes the channels of information more and wider. But Over-reliance on new media will cause the dilemma of unitary way. In the output process of political integration, new media makes the integration more powerful and more effective. But it also makes reaction stronger. Although there are some limits, the use of new media in political integration is changing from a special case to a common thing. This could mean the development of political integration.Chapter Four:the risk prevention to the use of new media in political integration. This chapter is focus on the risk of new media and its prevention. Because of the features of new media, risk is inevitable. It may change the role of the partner to political integration; meanwhile it may make the form of integration into a failure. To deal with the risk, we should not only make effort in finding the solutions from new media itself, but also seek help from other way. The changes of government's mentality and the construction of core value system are crucial. Based on good understanding of the risk of new media and appropriate prevention to the risk, the political integration would be enhanced and developed. Furthermore, the whole political process will be more democratic.On the basis of attention on practice and critical analysis, the whole dissertation is in effort to find out the changing path and logic of political integration with the existence of new media. New media does not mean a brand new form of political integration, but an increased and the expanded version of the existing methods. To deal with the problems between new media and political integration, we need a broader perspective, like political ideas and value system. New media and political integration are mutually reinforcing. And eventually, with the development of political integration in new media era, the society will be more mature and democratic.