网络民粹主义传播的政治潜能

网络民粹主义扮演什么角色?这个问题一直很难让人作出简单的定性.网络事件引发网民舆论监督热情高涨的同时,也鼓舞了网民对抗主流文化的士气,激发了网民对抗权力中心、对抗权力话语的意识.当下人们渴望公平公正和言论自由,却对民粹主义的社会危害认识不足.网络民粹主义具有议程设置和社会动员功能,其公开的旗号是“人民公义”,行为是人民审判,本质却是多数人正义,我们必须认清其实质,并对其极端化行为保持警惕.

The Political Potential of Online Populist Communication

What kind of role does the online populism play?This is a question which is quite difficult to answer,because the nature of online populism has not been determined all the time.While stimulating netizens’ enthusiam for the supervision of public opinion online events often encourage the netizens to boycott the mainstream culture,and arouse their consciousness to resist authoritative center and authoritative discoures.People are eager for fairness,justice and the freedom of speech,but they have less knowledge about the social harm and danger of the populism.Online populism has the functions of agenda-setting and social mobilization in the name of "people justice",which is essentially "majority justice".we must recognize its nature and maintain vigilance to its extremities.