Research on the Dilemmas of the Modes of Contemporary Chinese Citizen’s Online Political Participation

Abstract

The dilemma of the modes of the contemporary Chinese citizen's online political participation is mainly reflected in the conflict between the plural interaction mode and the group polarization behavior. The mode of plural interaction is the essential requirement of citizen's online political participation, and the "group polarization" behavior is the extreme way of citizen's online political participation. The Echo wall of Internet users interaction, creating a kind of "group polarization" phenomenon, "intergroup Homogeneity" and "out-group heterogeneity", lead to network public opinion "group polarization"; the thoughts on interactive between reality and network, aggravate the "group polarization" effect; asynchronous and real-time by the online information communication, to promote the "group polarization" all of these phenomena, which is conflict with the pluralism of participant, the diversity demands of the rights and interests, the modes of participation, the interactive information exchange that the inherent requirement of the citizens` political participation. This is to promote the interaction between the government and the citizens, and to improve the citizen's online political participation.