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Construction Of Public Sphere Of The Network Community

Posted on:2015-02-20Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H S LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2267330428456183Subject:Sociology
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In recent years, the rapid rise of the network society has greatly changed people’sway of life. To express their views and ideas on the web has become a norm ofbehavior, and therefore, the network becomes deeply embedded in part of people’sdaily behavior. Although social networking is a virtual community, it could not splitopen with the social reality. Under the background of today’s social transformation,social anomie problem appeared inevitable. Social network, as a product of culture,is not only reflects the social reality of the drawbacks, but also expressed interestdemands of netizens through netizens discussion of public hotspot events. Althoughnetwork has anomie itself, however, we should always uphold a dialectical objectiveattitude towards the development of the network society, especially when networkscattered individuals in every corner of society and gather them together to form ahuge network community. We should think seriously about the actively constructmeaning of the public sphere of the formation of network social community for thecurrent social system reform and social management.In response to this phenomenon of the current network, community and the publicsphere, the key words of this article, will be placed in the background of the contextof the network society, and followed a study logic and framework from real world tonet society and back to social reality in order to mind a construction of socialmanagement. This paper analyzes netizens behavior patterns in Zhang Lili event andcut from a community point of view to explore the network community formationopportunity, conditions and connotation characteristics under the background ofnetwork by combing community theory into system. On this basis, to further explorehow the Internet, as a new public sphere,break the traditional public sphere dualisticframework, and take "public"and "private" into account in the new space, makingpublic network community not only has a theoretical significance, but also havepractical significance. Thus return back to the constructing meaning of social reality,reflecting further on the possibility of expanding the network of public sphere become a new path of social management and social policy.The methods of research are primarily on comparative analysis and case analysis.With the development of specific case, it has fresh creation in three dimensions suchas the perspective of study, utility of concept and explanation of theory.The main findings in this paper are: Firstly, the network community is formedbased on hobbies, and is a weak tie that broke the geographical restrictions. Internetbrings more social ties for its members due to its non-zero-sum game. A equalityinteractive mode had been created because the Internet allows individuals to formweak ties with strangers, which means social status and other social characteristicsin the real world of each individual members will not be the communication barriersand restrictions. Network community beyond the control of the distance and offersmore opportunities of social contact for spatial dispersion individuals due to thenarrow social living style and social ties. Low-cost network along with weak ties andmutual support to each other create a strong combination of social identity andenhanced interactive communication link between people. Secondly, the Internet hasbecome a new public sphere, breaking the traditional dualism framework of the publicsphere. Traditional national authority and public administrative and civil socialpublicity binary framework led to the "public"and "private" diametrically opposed.The network reconcile the public and private boundaries, taking public and privatespace into account, letting the nation gains more opportunities to understand theaspirations of individuals, as well as providing possibilities by expanding the publicsphere for individuals to involve in national affairs. Thirdly, public sphere of thenetwork community has practical significance. Network public sphere fit the demandsof the network community. It has become an effective way for people to appeal fair,social equality, and responsibility in today’s transition society in. When individualsinvolved in the discussion of public affairs on the internet, whether the individual isaware this act or not, a manifestation of the practice of public sphere is shown.Especially when the network community helping others, the focused attention hadchanged from the pursuit of material affluence to the achievement of self-worth, andthe public sphere of the network exactly fit the needs of the people. This not only meets the spiritual pursuit of the people, but also provide a reference for the socialconstruction, as well as provide a new path social policy and social management.
Keywords/Search Tags:network, community, public sphere
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