Reality or Lie: Discussing Whether New Media Really Empower Citizens

DOI

10.2991/icesem-18.2018.200How to use a DOI?

Keywords

New media; Citizens; Give; Damage

Abstract

With the change of communication modes, new media give every citizen the right to express himself and further change the political and ecological environment of the whole world. But do the new media give citizens real power? It may be too early to judge. Based on the above ideas, this paper mainly sorted out the development of new media and its impact on society by literature method and came to the conclusion that "new media may not truly empower citizens". It is true that the new media has brought about the rise of grassroots culture, promoted the supervision of public opinion and given citizens more autonomy. However, a series of resulting negative effects, such as the leakage of personal privacy, the flood of fake news and network monitoring, are also important to be focused.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Tiancong Hu
PY  - 2018/08
DA  - 2018/08
TI  - Reality or Lie: Discussing Whether New Media Really Empower Citizens
BT  - Proceedings of the 2018 2nd International Conference on Education Science and Economic Management (ICESEM 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 859
EP  - 862
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/icesem-18.2018.200
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