Studies On The College Students’ Political Participation Through The Internet In New Media Era

In the internet era, the political participation through the internet is an important theoretical research area in politics, and also an important manifestation of democracy. The technical means of "micro" as a new kinds of media has changed the status of political participation of college students with an unprecedented pace, such as the Micro-blog, the Micro-chat, the Micro-public, and the Micro-film. At the same time, with their keen political insight and positive awareness of political participation, college students also become the subject of the political participation through the internet in the new media era. The advantages of the new media’s universality and equality, directness and virtuality, cheap and fast speed have opened up a new platform, a new mechanism and a new channel for college students. However, it brings new problems and raises new confusion at the same time. Based on the large numbers of extensive academic research, this paper analyses the new features and new confusions of the college students’political participation in the context of the new media with the theory of politics, sociology and communication studies. And from the college students’subject status in participation, government services and college education, this paper attempts to put forward the methods of how to effectively and correctly guide and serve the college students’political participation through the internet.This paper is divided into five chapters. Chapter one is a simple introduction about the significance, background, literature review, the innovations and research method of this paper. Chapter two analyzes the new features of college students’political participation from new media in politics, new media government, new media monitoring, new media mobilization, opinion leaders and new media mobile. Chapter three discusses the confusions of college students’political participation through the new media, such as political apathy, political fanaticism, extreme blindness, political rumors among the network, violence involvement, and unrealistic. Chapter four explores the healthy and orderly development of college students’political participation from the aspects of students’self-improvement, government’s service management, and college education’s education and guidance. Chapter five is the conclusion.