Study On The Network Carrier For Ideological And Political Education

Nowadays the internet has penetrated deeply into almost every aspect of our daily life. More and more people obtain information and contact with each other through network. Even quite a lot of people take the network as a kind of carrier for their studies, works and lives. Thus the network has a greater and greater impact on people's thought and the ideological and political workers have to face such a new carrier today.1. The network: a new carrier for ideological and political educationOriginated from a computer experiment network ARPANET which was used for military research and was taken by Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the U.S. Department of Defense in 1968, it mainly aimed to help researchers of American army to exchange information through the computer. In the past decades, the internet got a high speed, healthful, harmonious and stable development in our country.It became the fourth media after three traditional masses' media, namely newspapers and periodicals, broadcast and TV. Its various kinds of ideological trends have had a greater and greater impact on people's ideology and politics which made it become a new carrier for ideological and political education. Today, the network has already become a component of our society and it has already become a new life style with its sign of digitization, informationization and networkzation which in turn resulted in a new society mode with its sign of interaction, fictitiousness and innovation.2. The analysis of the network carrierCompared with traditional ideological and political educating carrier, the network carrier has such characteristics and advantages as the follows: Abundant and vivid in content; Information spreading more quickly with which a traditional way is unparalleled; People can release information, publish speeches, get and dispatch data freely; Surfing the net anonymously makes it highly disguised; The netizens can carry on mutually in the network real-timely or non- real-timely.These characteristics of the internet have brought some new problems to ideological and political education: The western countries headed by U.S.A., fully utilize their information advantages and influences to propagate their capitalist ideology, political system and culture to the world and people are facing unprecedented impact in othercountries; The culture of English, especially the U.S.A.'s culture, have already formed a new cultural hegemony in the world through this new technology at present; The credit crisis has already become a kind of open secret in network society; The culture of network's snacking and implementing made the traditional culture go out of the norms and come down; Indulging in the network for a long time is apt to bring out the psychological and emotional obstacles, people's sociable ability drops and their interpersonal relationships are desalinized; Having paid attention to network excessively led to moral relativism tendency and other morals obstacles in the realistic society which made people's morals on internet go out of the norms; Under the slogan of "information is free", some harmful information spreads widely through the internet. All these phenomena told us that the internet technology has put forward higher requirements for ideological and political workers.On the other hand, the network has brought new opportunities to ideological and political education: Carrying on ideological and political education through the network, the coverage rate is wider and of greater impact, which widened the domains of ideological and political education; Adopting the multimedia technology makes the preach not uninteresting any more which increased the appeal of ideological and political education; The characteristic of fast spreading through the network can propagate, guide the people in time which improves working prescription greatly; The anonymity on the network will help ideological and political workers to find out people's real ideas; It widened the educating channels; It strengthen the efficiency and improved the coverage rate of ideological and political education.3. Fully utilize the network carrier to carry on ideological and political educationAt first, we should build the network well and seize this position. The workers should have strong consciousness to capture the cultural position of network and make it step into the track of sound development with our advanced culture. Sufficient financial support should be given to build a good network platform for ideological and political education. Substantiate the content and innovate constantly. Build a new type of working team that understands ideological and political education as well as the network technology.Secondly, fully utilize the network to launch educational work. Launch multi-form ideological and political education and upgrade the method with the characteristic and the advantage of the network. Strengthen the collection and analysis of online publicsentiment and guide purposefully and consciously. Carry on direct contact to solve people's doubt online.Finally, strengthen monitoring and management on network. The sound development of internet depends on the regulation. Thus we should strengthen the legal constructing about network. Meanwhile, we should filter out the harmful information through technological means to guarantee the content of the network is healthful. Mandatory administration means such as registered with real names on the network are the effective methods to strengthen supervision.Internet has already become a new carrier for ideological and political education. We should understand this new carrier and seize the opportunity to carry on ideological and political education much better.