Research on the Enhancement of the Effectiveness of Law Popularization and Publicity on Different Social Media Platforms under the Perspective of Legal Communication —Take the Dissemination Practice of the Civil Code as an Example
The advent of the Internet era and the popularity of mobile phones and other mobileterminals have not only provided the necessary technical support and massive user resources forthe development of social media platforms, but have also issued new challenges and provided newopportunities for the law popularization and publicity in the new era. Therefore, it has become animportant issue to be addressed in the process of building China’s rule of law that how to use socialmedia platforms to enhance citizens’ awareness of China’s laws, their recognition of the philosophyof the rule of law and their participation in the practice of the rule of law, and to stimulate the wholesociety to respect, learn and abide by the law and take the initiative. The promulgation of the Civil Codeis a milestone event on the road to building the rule of law in China. In this paper, we have chosenthe practice of popularizing the Civil Code on five mainstream social media platforms, namely Weibo,WeChat, ShakeYin, B-site and Zhihu, as the main object of study, in order to find a feasible way toeffectively improve the effect of popularizing the law.