Analysis Of The Democratic Effects Of The Information Revolution

The information revolution is an intelligence revolution following the industrial revolution. With the evolution and development of the information revolution, information revolution promoted the development and progress of human society from various levels, led to a fundamental transformation of the social, economic structure, mode of production and way of life. Democracy is noble values of human political life. Information revolution is bound to have a profound impact on the development of democracy.This article includes three parts:1. To promote the development of contemporary democratic revolution The new technology revolution injects new vitality into the development of production. Information technology has become the main driving force for economy development in the new century. Information economy has become initiative economy form of social development , industrial economy is giving way to the information economy. Economic development provides the material basis for the democracy development; political participation of citizens no longer subjects to geographical and time constraints with the advances in communication technology. Media promoted the information input and output, people understood and concerned politics, increased political participation. The economic structure changes in information society have promoted the development of democracy. Economic activity breaks the limit of regions. The global exchange and sharing of information has become the objective requirements for economy development. Thereby it promoted society open more, free flow of information and ideal expansion of democracy. A new middle class came out in information society, this class represents a new culture and value, they have urgent demands of democratic political life. The information revolution changed the power source, after processing to extract information - "knowledge" has become the main factors to define power, and power was decentralized. Network made pyramid-like structure expand to the level of a flat extension. Decentralization of power in information-age became the major features. Global information network broke the government's monopoly on information, made the dissemination of information more directly political, transparency and pluralism, which could lead to the democratization of decision-making power. Global dissemination of information highlighted in the democratic development of a "demonstration effect". Network information revolution has opened up a new era of democracy and the rapid development of internet provides advanced technical means for democratic participation. It opened up a new channel for democratic participation. Advances in information technology improved the education information level, promoted the improvement of the quality of people. Network directly impacted on the country's governance model, "government online", the development of e-government enhanced the transparency of government, and citizens have more information resources. Political interactions between the government and citizens strengthened. Government's supervision was strengthened to ensure the realization of the principle of democracy. Information technology improved the equality in political participation, ensuring political communication and information transfer, broadening the channels for the expression of the interests of citizens, so political participation became more effective.2. The negative impact of the information revolution on the development of democracyThe information revolution promoted the development of democracy, but we must not neglect the challenges democracy development facing of information era. Information revolution aggravated inequality information resource possession. The existence of digital divide made political participation limit to the class who has the power to use information tools. Information society divided into rich and poor crowd. Technical elite will come out in information age, and it will be possible to form a new technical centralized rule for the combination of technical elite with traditional bureaucratic. This will influence the development of democracy. The free flow of information, disorder influence domestic political order, it will impede the smooth development of democracy.3 . The deep consideration about democracy effect of information revolutionInformation revolution had a profound impact on democracy form, it also challenged the theory of democracy and the fundamental democracy principles. The rapid development of information technology marked the coming of information revolution, it is gradually changing traditional representative democracy, and is opening up the possibility of direct democracy. It has become a hot topic that representative democracy change into direct democracy in information age. The information revolution has a profound impact on the development of democracy, but democratic development is a complex social problem. The emergence, operations and development of democracy is relative to the complex process of social history, the factors affecting the development of democracy is various. Politics is the concentrated reflection of economy, certain social groups in the economic structure determine their political status and social control methods. Because technological change does not change the economic basis of socio-political operation, the surface morphology of the democratic may change richly, but that who enjoys democracy and the basic principles of democracy, democracy operation procedures has not undergone fundamental changes.Facing opportunities and challenges of the information revolution to democratic development, we should work towards a reasonable policy to promote organic integration of democracy and information technology, resolve and eliminate the negative factors for the development of democracy, and make efforts to promote information technology to be an effective tool for the development of democracy.