The Civic Awareness in the Network Society

Abstract

Along with the initial development of the public domain in China's network, the civic awareness is awakening. The civic consciousness in the network society is more expressed as the consciousness of the common people. It is a mixture of rationality and irrationality, and is full of criticism and expectation of real life. The network provides a new platform for the development of citizen consciousness, but there are also technical dilemma, management dilemma and cultural dilemma, which impede the further development of the civic awareness. To foster the development of civic awareness in the network society, we should start from advocating communicative rationality, spreading participatory political culture and rationally regulating cyberspace.