New Power Paradigm in Digital Era: Empowerment Based on Relation Network in Social Media —— Social Relation Reorganization and Power Pattern Dynamics

YU Guoming, MA Hui

Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication ›› 2016, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (10) : 6-27.

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Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication ›› 2016, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (10) : 6-27.

New Power Paradigm in Digital Era: Empowerment Based on Relation Network in Social Media —— Social Relation Reorganization and Power Pattern Dynamics

  • Yu Guoming is a Yangtze River Scholar Distinguished Professor of National Ministry of Education. He is also the executive director and doctoral supervisor of School of Journalism and Communication, Beijing Normal University. Email: yuguoming@126.com. Ma Hui is the doctoral candidate of School of Journalism and Communication, Renmin University of China. Email: mahui0429@126.com.
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In the past 20 years of Internet development, information technology has changed into the fundamental social factor from communication protocol, channel, media and platform. During this process, the social network experienced a transformation from the pattern of difference sequence and the group pattern to complicated and distributed network that is open and interactive, which have essentially changed the situation and ways people connect with each other and triggered the evolution of social resource distribution and power pattern. As a new source of power, Internet activates the individuals and the self-organizations, empowering the powerless in the society and causing power shift from the state actors to the non-state actors. This article tries to illustrate the dynamics and effect of the empowerment based on relation network in social media.

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information technology / situation / relation network / self-organization / emergence

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YU Guoming, MA Hui. New Power Paradigm in Digital Era: Empowerment Based on Relation Network in Social Media —— Social Relation Reorganization and Power Pattern Dynamics[J]. Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication. 2016, 38(10): 6-27
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