The concept of populism has had a long history. It is a political ideological trend, social movement and cultural mentality with historical recurrence. And it presents different characteristics in different historical development periods. The new media technology is different from traditional media experience, its characteristics of openness, equality, interaction has broken the traditional media of the line between the communicator and the receiver, and broke the time and space constraints. As an emerging public communication means, the new media decomposes the monopoly of right of speech in the view of traditional media effectively, and provides a feasible platform for the civilians. This paper starting from the populism and cutting in from the perspective of the communications, discuss the basic features of the populism in new media context, and try to explore the path of constructing a harmonious and pure new media environment in China.
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