Study On The Role Of Network Political Participation In Enhancement Of Civic Awareness

In the late20th century, the two inventions computers and the Internet brought mankind to enter the Internet era, and political participation also entered a new era. In contemporary China, the network political participation has become an important platform and channel for citizens’ political participation.This paper firstly summarizes domestic and foreign academic research, for exploring the role of network political participation in enhancing civic awareness at this stage. It subsequently investigates the current situation of China’s civic awareness in the Internet age, and describes the advantages and shortcomings of civic awareness in the traditional China as well as the new changes of civic awareness in the new era. This paper highlights the role of network political participation in enhancing civic awareness of citizens, and points out that network political participation brings improvement in awareness of participation, awareness of rights, awareness of responsibility, legal awareness, awareness of equality, public spirit and self-rationality of citizen. Meanwhile, it points out that citizens have limitations of illegal, unbalanced and irrational in network political participation. This paper also points out that the enhancement of civic awareness, in turn, contributes to the running of network political participation in the environment of rationalization and legalization.In order to achieve a healthy, orderly and sustainable network political participation of our citizens, this paper concludes that we should establish benign mechanism, which including legal mechanism, mechanism of interaction and mechanism of responsibility, for citizens’political participation and give specific ideas.