互联网使用对公众风险感知作用机理的实证研究--基于公众政治参与和对政府信任的视角

An empirical study on the influence mechanism of internet use on public risk perception:Based on the perspective of political participation and trust in the government

互联网的使用推动了社会风险的流动和交织,增强了社会风险治理的难度。加强公众风险感知研究既能补全传统的、以政府为中心的风险治理研究的短板,又能为提升我国风险治理水平提供参考。文章基于2017CSS数据,从公众网络政治参与和政府信任视角,运用熵值法指标赋值和Process链式中介检验,探究了互联网使用与公众风险感知的作用机理,以及网络政治参与、传统政治参与和政府信任的链式中介作用。结果表明,互联网的使用对公众风险感知具有显著的正向影响;公众的网络政治参与和政府信任,对互联网使用与公众风险感知的关系起到链式中介作用,传统政治参与则无此影响,但其本身对公众风险感知具有显著的负向影响。为降低公众风险感知,政府应当提高公众的政治参与意愿和能力,提升其对政府的信任,从而达到加强网络空间治理,降低公众风险感知和社会风险治理的目的。

The use of the Internet has promoted the flow and interweaving of risks and increased the difficulty of social risk governance.Strengthening public risk perception research can not only make up for the shortcomings of traditional government-centered risk governance research,but also provide references for boosting the level of risk governance practices.The article,based on 2017CSS data and taking the perspective of public political participation and trust in government,explores the mechanism of Internet use and public risk perception,as well as the chain-like intermediary role of network political participation,traditional political participation,and trust in government through the use of entropy method index assignment and Process chain intermediary inspection.The results show that Internet use has a significantly positive impact on public risk perception,and that Internet political participation and trust in government play a chain-like intermediary role in the relationship between them,while traditional political participation has no such impact,but it also has a significantly negative impact on public risk perception.In order to reduce public risk perception,the government should enhance public political participation willingness and capability,promote public trust in the government so as to strengthen cyberspace governance and achieve the goal of reducing public risk perception and social risk governance.