Social Media: An Ideal Tool for Public Participation to Promote Deliberative Democracy —— The Case of Public Participation in Refugee Crisis

Chuangying Li

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Social Media: An Ideal Tool for Public Participation to Promote Deliberative Democracy —— The Case of Public Participation in Refugee Crisis

Chuangying Li

Published in Advances in Sciences and Humanities (Volume 2, Issue 6)

Received: 5 September 2016 Accepted: 16 November 2016 Published: 18 October 2017

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On social media, the images of a drowned child on the beach continue to spark public’s sympathy toward refugees and evoke international outcry over the governments’ inability to adequately address the refugee crisis. These photos and refugee crisis can be seen as catalysts that have promoted the chain of political events. It has promoted civic engagement and inspired people to participate in this event. By analyzing this case, we can see the relationships between social media, public participation and deliberative democracy quite clearly; analyze why social media is an ideal tool for public participation; discover how powerful voluntary participation is; explore how the level of citizen participation varied during this process; and understand how public participation promote deliberative democracy by social media comprehensively.

Published in	Advances in Sciences and Humanities (Volume 2, Issue 6)
DOI	10.11648/j.ash.20160206.13
Page(s)	70-75
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Social Media, Public Participation, Deliberative Democracy, Refugee Crisis

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Department of Media and Communication, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

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Chuangying Li. Social Media: An Ideal Tool for Public Participation to Promote Deliberative Democracy —— The Case of Public Participation in Refugee Crisis. Adv Sci Humanit. 2017;2(6):70-75. doi: 10.11648/j.ash.20160206.13

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