The Influence Of Electronic Democracy Brings To Politicallife

Democracy originated in ancient Greek city-state of Athens, since then people whosuffered in the dictatorship has been resisted and struggled continuously for the pursuit ofdemocracy. Although, democracy was set up in the victory of the anti-feudal struggle, the mainform of democracy was representative democracy. This kind of democracy was limited by peoplecognitive level, geographical environment and many other restrictions, so the direct democracywas impossible to achieve. People can only depend on elected representatives to express theirvoices, perform their rights and make their national affairs decisions. With the wheel of historycontinuously moving forward, science and technology revolution has made enormous changes onpeople’s lifestyles and the way of expression, especially the information technology revolutionhas created a new way for the traditional democracy. The information communication technologyand network, both of which were brought by the information technology revolution, have madepeople convenient to access a variety of political information, providing a new channel betweenthe people and the government. This convenient and direct way of communication made peoplemore willing to participate in the politics. With the effect of this kind of technology, by the end ofthe20th century, there has been a trend from representative democracy to direct democracy. Sincethen, the "electronic democracy" has obtained the vigorous development around the world.With the continuous development of information communication and network technologies,the cyberspace is gradually taken shape as an important field of social communication andpolitical participation. With the help of network, getting involved in political affairs, expressingpolitical opinions and implementing political construction have becoming an important content ofmodern social and political life. There is no denying that the information communication andnetwork technology have penetrated into every field of our real life. And the network-basedpolitical participation has become the magical power for changing the way of political life. Theappearance of technology politics should get more and more rationally and practiced attention.Hope that through the analysis of the virtual technology of "electronic democracy" tosystematically interpret the feature and nature of "electronic democracy"; through the use oftechnical philosophy, especially the technical philosophy of western Marx materialism forthinking on "electronic democracy", to summarize the future democratic form based on the impactof electronic democracy; through the use of technological philosophy and technological sociologyprinciples, combined with the actual situation of current electronic democracy development, toclarify the impact and development direction of electronic democracy.