Professor Nico Carpentier of Uppsala University in Sweden accepted an interview with the authors on the topic of participatory communication and state governance. From the perspective of participatory communication, Professor Nico Carpentier discusses general situation of participatory communication and the relationship between participatory communication and new media, political participation, political communication and State governance. In his opinion, participatory communication is a significant development in contemporary communication theories and emphasizes the people’s participation in communicative processes. It reverses the stereotypical centering of media producers. With the growth of the Internet, more than before, the public has the possibility to take a key role in the production of information, knowledge and entertainment, and can also become more involved in societal dialogues. Participation raises issues not only about the relationships between the state and its citizens, but also about the relations between cultural and educational institutions and the citizenry. “More of governance, less of ruling” features a major political reform in the 21st century, and this also can be analyzed from the perspective of participatory communication. State governance is a process that involves multiple subjects, which also follows the logic of power balances . From this perspective, participatory communication theory helps extending the horizon of communication studies in the context of national modernization.