On The Political Ethical Implication And The Control Of Political Participation Through Micro Blog

With the Internet as the representative of the rapid development of new digitalmedia, political participation of micro blog has got rapid development in2011.Official micro blogs, as a platform to know public opinions and pool citizens’ wisdom,have been built by many local governments. Citizens’ participation in governmentaffairs has been fulfilled by micro blog, which creates a new era supervising andlimiting public power, protecting human rights and realizing freedom and democracy.The diversified subjects and civilian way make the political participation ofmicro blog have become a truly common media for people. With140characters andswift and varied means for sending messages entitle every individual to express theiropinions, which greatly liberates citizens’ right to speak. In the process of a series ofreviews and retransmission, the public space involved with high participation hasbeen formed gradually. Political participation of micro blog has created a new modelfor interpersonal communication and make the reports for public news and urgentnews have a more significant effects, which enables governments agencies have acloser ties with the citizens. Based on the advantages of common, instant andinteractive characteristics, political participation of micro blog has shown thediversified subjects, varied topics and close to common people in transmission. Microblog has become an important channel for government agencies to publishinformation, listen to public opinions and improve the government’s work andbrought a new way in participating government affairs in contemporary China.The thesis will systematically review the basic process and transmissionfeatures of micro blog’s rapid development, then analyze the background of microblog’s emergence in China in recent years as well as the significant influence inpolitical area. Micro blog for government indeed greatly widens the space for people’sparticipation in political area and facilitates the effective supervision and legislationprocess for public power. What’s more, it make an impressive contribution toanti-corruption in recent years. But political participation of micro blog has broughtserious challenges in our traditional social management model, ruling way, nationalsecurity, transmission of dominant value and cadre’s quality. Undoubtedly, success indealing with these challenges will be a significant part in our political development inthe new era.The thesis focuses on the following basic political ethical values, such as political order, political freedom, human right’s protection and political democracyand so on, then comprehensively analyzes the basic route and mechanism betweenmicro blog and realization of political ethical value on the internet. Meanwhile, thecomplex relationships between micro blog and political value will also be elaborated.Modern political order is a dynamical balance process which is harmonious butwithout sameness in essence. political participation of micro blog is an important partto construct this order in internet era. Micro blog greatly widens the political freedomfor people, even though it is limited by some rational regulations. Micro blog not onlylimits the public power’s usage by supervision and protect different kinds of rights forcommon people, but also it itself is a kind of basic right that can not be limitedcasually. Micro blog is a kind of way in participating democracy in the new era andpushes political democracy in a new stage, that is extensive rising of democracy onthe internet.Of course, like other civilized systems, micro blog has its own costs. As atechnical tool without special value itself, the anonymity, scatter, decentralization,cluster, virtualization of micro blog have brought responsible subject missing, securityrisks, passive administration and misconduct of net citizen. The thesis holds theopinion that only combining the measures of technology, legislation, moral educationand responsibility system can micro blog make contributions to human beings and gethealthy and orderly development.Political participation of micro blog of China citizens is very lively now. Maybeit is just a realistic combination between citizens’ demand in participating in politicsin the new era and modern technology. Maybe the more prosperous micro blogbecomes, the more obstructed way China’s system reflects in legal participation. Nocountry’s new media can exert such extraordinary effect like China in the worldwide.Of course, no country’s social transformation can be so complex and meetinformatization. We hope that this unexpected meeting can bring good opportunitiesfor successful China’s social transformation.