英文摘要 |
Social media bring a lot of impacts to modern democratic countries. Some scholars believe the development of social media nowadays have created the effect of double-edged sword. On the positive side, social media can instantly disclose information for issues in democratic politics. On the negative side, social media encourage the development of monitoring mechanism and endanger personal autonomy. About this argument, scholar Francis Fukuyama, provided a further explanation in ''Democracy Quarterly'' published in January 2020. The article also carried out analysis on the opportunities and challenges that social media bring to modern democratic countries as well as further discussed how social media strengthen authoritarian resilience and affect democratic politics. In addition, the article also observed the coping methods towards social media in authoritarian regime and in democratic countries. The study reveals social media played a positive role of providing people information and empowering the civil society in the past. However, social media nowadays manipulate specific issues to create public opinions and invade people's right of privacy. It has become a tool that affects the operation of political information in authoritarian regime and in democratic countries. That is, people's emotion and preference can be manipulated as long as you can control the social media, which brings great impact on the strengthening of authoritarian resilience in authoritarian countries and the operation of liberal democracy. |