Monitoring And Early Warning Of Network Public Opinion In Emergency

According to the research shows, for the time being our country has entered thestage of emergency, which makes the risk of governing increases continuously. Therefore,how to prevent the emergencies from occurring and deal with them effectively in order toreduce their harmfulness becomes terribly important. The increasing number of internetusers and rapid development of network technology provide us a new effective mean tohandle emergencies while bringing the unprecedented prime of internet public opinion.The relevant departments of government were afraid of facing network opinion ofemergencies in the past, but now they tend to confront network public opinion and makeuse of it to handle emergencies timely in an active manner. This change indicates that notonly the government emphasizes the importance of network public opinion ofemergencies in a deepening degree, but also it is crucial to research on monitoring andearly warning about network public opinion of emergencies aiming at guiding betterresponse to network public opinion of emergencies. As network public opinion is a newform of opinion which gradually comes into being with the advent of the Internet age,there is little research about network public opinion of emergencies in our country,needless to say the research on monitoring and early warning about network publicopinion of emergencies. Therefore, the study of monitoring and early warning of networkpublic opinion of emergencies is still in a process of a ceaseless exploration. Thisso-called monitoring and early warning of network public opinion of emergencies refersto a series of operations adopted to avoid the adverse impact that might be brought togovernance of the state and social public opinion when unexpected events occur,including monitoring, collecting, screening and analyzing information about emergencies,reporting as well as precautionary. As far as now, the construction of monitoring and earlywarning of network public opinion of emergencies has obtained some progress though itis still in the primary stage. In process of settling an emergency, what provide legalsecurity for the solution of emergencies are close attention paid by the leaders of bothcentral and local government to the development and application of network publicopinion, awareness of network public opinion of emergencies improved by the localgovernment who strengthens advanced network technology development and applicationof monitoring and early warning of network public opinion of emergencies and the issueof laws and regulations on management of network public opinion of emergencies. However, there exist many problems in the spreading process of monitoring and earlywarning of network public opinion of emergencies, which are caused by differencebetween subjects, uncertainty of objects, unclear regulatory responsibility and theimperfection of ethical and legal system. For example, there is large amounts of distortedinformation in the network public opinion of emergencies, some cyber citizens cherishextreme attitude towards some emergencies, certain lawless elements take advantage ofinformation release platform of network public opinion of emergencies to conspiring aplanned hype and relevant responsible departments can not coordinate well duringmonitoring and early warning of network public opinion of emergencies. The existing ofall these problems leading to the failure of reaching the expected goal when monitoringand early warning of network public opinion of emergencies. On base of pointing out theproblems that existing in monitoring and early warning of network public opinion, thispaper gives a deep analysis of the reasons behind, moreover, puts forward someaccording suggestions. In order to prevent the emergencies from occurring, respond tothem effectively and maintain social stability, comprehensive measures are adopted toenhance the monitoring and early warning of network pubic opinion of emergencies suchas improving the information colleting-and-analyzing system of network public opinionof emergencies, establishing monitoring early warning mechanism of network publicopinion of emergencies, promoting the cooperation between departments, strengtheningthe positive guide of network public opinion of emergencies and purifying the moral andlaw environment of network public opinion of emergencies.