Appreciating the role of big data in the modernization of environmental governance

1 Introduction The development of the Internet of Things,drones,and new social media platforms opened up an unprecedented space for the autonomy of human society.It promoted the formation of a new form of social relations and social field—cyber society (Jones,1995).The cyber society has already become a digital twin of the actual society and even the extensions.It reconstructed the whole society through impacting social control and social norms.In this context,it is of great theoretical and practical significance to expand the field of social governance from traditional society to cyber society.