激进还是冷漠？网络使用对东亚青年内部政治效能感影响机制研究

Radical or Apathetic? How Internet Use Affects the Internal Political Efficacy of East Asian Youth

摘要: 青年是价值观形成的关键时期，青年人的政治态度时时刻刻受到外部环境的塑造，且呈现出多元而极端的特征。在当前互联网高速发展的背景下，本研究重点关注东亚青年群体的内部政治效能感。一方面，从2017年开始，“佛系青年”一词先后在日本、韩国、中国等地流行，形象地描述了东亚青年群体中普遍存在的政治冷漠；但另一方面，近年来东亚部分地区少数暴乱事件又表明部分东亚青年具有极强的政治激进主义倾向。基于亚洲晴雨表社会调查数据，对中国、日本、韩国、越南、新加坡五国进行分析，本研究发现：互联网使用与东亚青年内部政治效能感存在很强的正向关系，并且这种关系建立在政治信息机制和社会信任机制之上。

Abstract: In the 21st century, with the advent of the Internet era, the world has become a “global village”. The young generation is the main force of Internet use, and it is also known as the “fingertip generation”. At the beginning of this century, there was a trend of "Buddhist youths" with political apathy took place in Japan, South Korea, China and other places, vividly describing the widespread political apathy among young people in East Asia. On the other hand, a few violent incidents in some parts of East Asia in recent years show that some young people in East Asia have a strong tendency of political radicalism. Both the two controversial phenomena happened in East Asia. Besides, it can be seen that the research on the causes of youth political efficacy is of great importance. This study illustrates the mechanism of Internet use on youth’s internal political efficacy by collating and exploring the data of the fourth wave of the Asian Barometer. The data results show that the frequency of searching for political information is positively correlated with youth's internal political efficacy; trust radius plays a mediating role in the influence of Internet use frequency and internal political efficacy.