新媒体语境下大众政治勃兴与协商民主建设

The Rising of Mass Politics and the Construction of Consultative Democracy under New Media Context

协商民主是对民主的超越,意在克服西方民主的形式化弊端,强调民主的内涵和过程。政治逻辑决定媒体的逻辑。中国特殊的政治逻辑决定了中国特色的媒体逻辑。互联网带来了强大外部效应,改写了原先政治权力结构与传播权力结构之间的微妙平衡,造成大众政治的崛起。而大众政治的崛起,对既有的"存量"政治构成了空前的冲击。网络空间里的大众政治带有协商民主的成分,但网络协商民主不是真正意义上的协商民主。防止大众政治失控,需要谋求精英政治与底层政治的再平衡,改变失衡的传播权力格局,同时需要提高政治沟通质量。

As an improvement of democracy, consultative democracy is meant to overcome the formalized disadvantages of Western democracy and emphasize the connotation and process of democ racy. Political logic decides media logic. China＇ s special political logic has shaped its media logic with Chinese characteristics. Because of strong external effect of the Internet, the delicate balance between former political power structure and media power structure has been changed, and mass pol- itics is rising. The rising of mass politics has caused an unprecedented impact of the current ＂stock politics＂. Mass politics in cyberspace bears some elements of consultative democracy, but it is not consultative democracy in its true sense. To prevent mass politics from out of control, the rebalance of elite politics and grass-root politics is necessary, so is the change power structure and the improvement of political communication. of unbalanced communication