Internet Use and Political Participation

This book explores how Chinese citizens influence both real and internet political participation via using internet. During real political participation in selection and collective incident, the influence of internet use is different, which results from different situations of the development of different types of political participation in China. According to the analysis on the political participation in the network public opinion’s supervision, internet advice, and internet alternative, the author finds that these types of political participation subject to institutional arrangement and effect of real political participation. Therefore, the author proposes that the real political participation effected by the use of internet and internet political participation mutually supply and influence each other, where there is inverse relationship between them. This book will be of interest to researchers, political scientists, and media studies scholars.