CMN 3109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Deliberative Democracy, Salween River, Greater China
26 Feb 2016
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Traditional unifying media deliver an authoritative discourse and thus assemble and sustain nations with real time theatre. On the other hand, the conversation model and autonomy associated with computer-mediated communication (cmc) provides an alternative persuasive discourse which challenges the authoritative discourse and provides the subject with a language for dialogue. Thus, the decentralized nature of internet media may soften the hegemonic control over public dialogue by dominant media and empower citizens. Internet bulletin boards and other interactive online communities may create a new sphere for public meetings and discussions, a potential for reunifying people and renewing revitalizing citizen-based democracy. In the peoples republic of china, online communities based on internet bulletin boards are changing the traditional political communities of official meetings, neighborhoods or organization study groups, and private elite-dominant salons, and opening political discussion to ordinary chinese. Online political discussion also goes beyond the geopolitical boundaries, to construct a virtual public sphere hardly anticipated before.
