2012, Vol., No.35

Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.39

pISSN : 1598-4230 / eISSN : 2586-7601
https://journal.kci.go.kr/ihss

It is generally believed that the spread of civil journalism in China prompted the weakening of authoritarianism. However, this article is an attempt to disprove the positive relationship between the spread of civil journalism and democratization in China. The civil journalism has relatively weakened the power of state-owned and state-governed media whose information is tightly controlled by the Chinese Communist Party Government. Nevertheless, the civil journalism has neither displaced the traditional journalism, nor contributed to the democratization in China. This article is to show that the spread of civil journalism has not prompted the democratization in China. Instead, it proves that the implicit compromise between the party-state and civil journalists has been delaying the democratization in China.

This study aims at examining whether or not the intended consequences of civic education are embodied. In detail, it attempts to find out whether civic education affects the level of electoral concerns, electoral knowledge, and subjective policy differentiation, thereby increasing the possibility of voter turnout. Utilizing survey data on the 17th presidential election of Korea, it finds out that civic education works, rather in opposite to the existent literature. However, the significance of civic education differs whether one analyzes electoral concerns, policy differentiation or political knowledge. This study concludes, therefore, that although civic education has an influence on voter turnout, its impact will be different in regards to how civic education is taught.

The purpose of this study is to examine the educational characteristics within the age of New Media, and to suggest direction for the development of education with regards to unification. In order to accomplish this goal, first, this paper recognized the importance of unification education in the age of New Media, examined the definition and features of New Media, smart revolution in the age of New Media as the change of social paradigm, the influence of smart revolution in the social area, and educational characteristics in the age of New Media. On the basis of these discussions, this study compared current unification education to Web 1.0≧Web 2.0⋟Web 3.0. This type of unification education holds the same characteristics as a lack of A bond of sympathy, emphasis on the quantity aspects of education, hard-to-find hope, and greedy unification education under pressure. Finally, this study suggests the way to improve the age of New Media for the building of democratic unification leadership. First, education for unification corresponds with the smart generation that have self-directed learning inclinations, omnipresence tendencies, instantaneous access-oriented s-learning, openness, creativity, and flexibility. Furthermore, teachers have to use social network services in unification education quite freely. Thereby, unification education will cultivate an environment where learners have the ability to engage in creativity thinking, create new ideas on the basis of openness, competence of conflict solution in unification Korea, and learner's aspiration to achieve unification.