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Public Opinion Misconduct and Online Gender Violence: Exploring China’s Social Media Crisis Beneath the Surface
- 1 Communication University of China
- 2 Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications
- 3 Central Academy of Fine Arts
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Abstract
Due to the rapid advancement of Internet technology, cyber violence has grown to be a massive issue driven primarily by public opinion and social events. In order to investigate the potential crisis of Chinese social media below the surface of public opinion governance, this paper focuses on several archetypal examples in which women are the subject and public opinion is out of focus, leading to ethical misconduct in public opinion. This paper used three research techniques to gather information from Chinese social media users about a specific theme: a questionnaire survey, real-time hotspot data collecting, and case comparison analysis. This paper successfully obtains a large number of data points and analyzes them. Combine this with the change in the interaction mode between the media and Internet users in the “Internet+” era in recent years and the trend from one-way communication to two-way interaction, and this paper discusses the changes in the media environment and the new problems caused by them and further analyzes the practical data. Finally, it explores the problem that China’s social media has been neglected in responding to online violence events: the traffic bias of the content reported by social media platforms has harmed netizens’ legal consciousness in terms of online violence, and the victims do not understand the means of safeguarding their rights according to law, while the perpetrators do not know the consequences of online violence, which makes online violence events emerge endlessly.
Keywords
gender-based online violence, Chinese social media, behavior and social networks
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Huang,Y.;Qin,Y.;Wang,Y. (2023). Public Opinion Misconduct and Online Gender Violence: Exploring China’s Social Media Crisis Beneath the Surface. Communications in Humanities Research,19,54-62.
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