The Influence of Internet Social Media on the Chinese Political System

DOI

10.2991/iemetc-17.2017.103How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Internet Social Media, Political Culture, Political System, Netizens

Abstract

The Chinese government and its citizens have begun to interact more and more due to the proliferation of social media. This paper analyzes the influence of internet social media on the Chinese political system through system theory and political culture theory. The Chinese political system is mainly controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the political culture in China has been a subject political culture. However, since the growth of internet social media, citizens have increased open access to express their opinions about politics. Through two typical case studies, this paper concludes that the political culture is changing through the social internet media, but that it cannot influence the absolute power of the Chinese government. The Chinese political system, in the one-party state, has control over the internet social media and the current political system will not be largely influenced by the social internet media, especially when citizens are more concerned with their economic development and wealth.

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© 2017, 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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BT  - Proceedings of the 2017 9th International Economics, Management and Education Technology Conference (IEMETC 2017)
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