The Role Of The Media On Cilvilian Political Participation In China

The emergence and development of the media produce a profound influence on human society. In the process of the development of political civilization, the media plays the corresponding effect. Especially in the modern democracy development period, the media in the citizen's political participation plays a more and more important role. In China's economic, political modernization process, media performs meritorious deeds never to be obliterated. Reform and opening up in China for thirty years, while we have great achievements in economic construction, the era calls the construction of democratic politics in our country to bring out the best in each other. It is necessary to analyze the role of media in our citizen's political participation when we analyze many factors of the influence of domestic citizen political participation as the core of the democratic political construction.Citizen political participation is a controversial concept in educational circles, the definition of citizen's political participation, specific connotation of media and the explanation of related problems are the logic premises when we analyze the function of media in the citizen political participation.The media plays multifaceted roles in citizen's political participation. On one hand, the media as a technical means of citizen's political participation exerted a profound impact, as an independent social forces, the media as a part of the group's citizens or extension of citizen participation plays a great role in political participation. On the other hand, from the concrete action, media in citizen politics participation mainly embodies on the increase of citizen's political participation ability and political participation quality, as well as the impact on main contents of the system of political participation behavior, including political elections, political express and political supervision. The effect of media in citizen's political participation is influenced by various effects, including the factors of the form itself, the rule of development, and also by the government's intervention. At the same time, the media plays the role in citizen's political participation both in positive and negative way.Combining with above factors, the purpose of analysis on the function of media in citizen political participation is to discover problems, reveal the rules, in the hope of maximize favorable factors and minimize unfavorable ones, respect the media's law of development, and promote the democratic politics construction in our country.