信息激励与社群助推:互联网使用何以促进政治参与  

Information Incentives and Community-driven Engagement:How Internet Use Facilitates Political Participation

作　　者：张迎新 刘丁香 李智超 ZHANG Yingxin;LIU Dingxiang;LI Zhichao(School of Public Administration and Policy,Renmin University of China;School of Interdisciplinary Studies,Renmin University of China;Television School,Communication University of China;School of International and Public Affairs/School of Emergency Management,Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

机构地区：[1]中国人民大学公共管理学院、交叉科学研究院 [2]中国传媒大学电视学院 [3]上海交通大学国际与公共事务学院 [4]上海交通大学应急管理学院

出　　处：《公共管理评论》2024年第3期172-197,共26页China Public Administration Review

基　　金：国家自然科学基金面上项目“级联灾害的城市应急合作治理网络研究:结构、绩效与优化”(项目批准号:72374132);上海市教育委员会和上海市教育发展基金会“曙光计划”(项目批准号:21SG49);四川省社会科学重点研究基地数字文化与传媒研究基地项目“智媒时代青年群体的国际舆论认知及网络政治参与研究”(项目批准号:SC23DCMB016)的资助。

摘　　要：随着第四次信息技术革命浪潮的来临,互联网愈发成为赋能社会公众、促进政治参与的关键力量,然而互联网内在的工具理性特质决定了其将在技术逻辑的驱动下对政治参与产生多重影响。为探究互联网使用与政治参与间的因果关系及其作用机制,本文将政治参与区分为制度化和非制度化两类形态,构建了技术赋能的理论框架,提炼出信息激励与社群助推两条作用机制;而后基于中国社会状况综合调查(CSS)两期混合截面数据,通过实证分析为研究假设提供了经验证据支持。研究发现:(1)技术赋能效应明显,互联网使用显著促进了政治参与,尤其是对制度化政治参与的促进效应更为突出;(2)信息激励机制验证,互联网信息传播的特性能通过增强公众信息接触的深度与广度,缓解信息约束,进而有效促进政治参与;(3)社群助推机制验证,互联网社会互动的特性能够通过提升公众社群参与的数量和质量,缓解社群约束,进而有效促进政治参与。本研究揭示了互联网的技术工具本质对政治参与的“双刃剑”效应,为政府因势利导发挥互联网的积极效应提供了政策启示。With the advent of the fourth wave of the information technology revolution,the internet is increasingly becoming a key force in empowering the public and promoting political participation.The inherent characteristics of the internet as a rational tool suggest that it has a number of impacts on political participation,driven by its technological logic.Whereas previous studies have clarified how the internet may promote political participation,their exploration of the underlying mechanisms is limited.They rely on traditional mediation models,which weaken their power to test the mechanisms,and they neglect the deeper technological logic behind such mechanisms as well as both their positive and negative effects.To explore the causal relationship between internet use and political participation,along with the underlying mechanisms,this paper distinguishes between institutionalized and non-institutionalized forms of political participation.A theoretical framework of technological empowerment is constructed,and two mechanisms—information incentives and community-driven engagement—are proposed.Using data from two waves of the Chinese Social Survey(CSS),the study provides empirical evidence supporting our research hypotheses.The findings reveal that:(1)Technological empowerment significantly impacts political participation,with internet use enhancing in particular the institutionalized forms of political participation;(2)The information incentives mechanism is confirmed,as information dissemination via the internet reduces information constraints by broadening and deepening public exposure and thereby promoting political participation;(3)The community-facilitation mechanism is validated,with internet-based social interactions improving community engagement by increasing both the quantity and quality of community participation.The main contributions of this study are as follows:First,at the theoretical level,the study extracts the information incentive and community-facilitation mechanisms based on the technological l

关 键 词：互联网使用 政治参与 技术赋能 信息激励 社群助推 

分 类 号：D621.5[政治法律—政治学] F49[政治法律—中外政治制度]