On Deliberative Democracy Construction In Filter Blogs

This Dissertation is attributed to the academic program supported by National Social Science Fund of Study on Government Controlling New Media PR Strategy, led by Professor Chen Xianhong from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST). Its focus is to study the relationship between filter blogs and deliberative democracy and explore whether the filter blogs contribute to the Chinese deliberative democracy. As we know, filter blogs are approaching to the mainstream media and playing a more and more important role in daily life and politics. Therefore, it appealed more and more concerns and was expected by some people as the political innovative pioneer. Led by this belief, the author carried on this study.Filter blogs and deliberative democracy are the key words of this dissertation. Therefore, the author explicitly reviewed the preliminary literature in Chapter two and Chapter three. To seek the relationship of filter blogs and deliberative democracy, the author attended to compare the common factors between them. It's lucky that public sphere emerged from the literature review as the common factors,which the author thought played an important role in building the deliberative democracy theoretically,including free, rational and volunteer participants, privately common issues, mass-participating conversation,normal interactive program,open, equal and forgive circumstances and results accepted by all.In order to verify hypothesis, the author used the empirical approach to accumulate data to provide ample support for it. In Chapter five, the author utilized multiple cases study method to verify her thoughts and made some further based on the date accumulated from the cases. In this study, the author selected 11 big crisis events during 2003-2008 in China as analysis materials and 220 related blog posts as samples to study the relationship between political blogs and deliberative democracy. Through content code and co-code and statistic analysis assisted by SPSS, the author verified the hypothesis. And in the Chapter six, the author listed the limits of this essay and gave a glimpse of the following research plan and demonstrated the eager to make some contribution to this program.