Network Mass Incidents Interactive Mode

As Internet technology continues to evolve and becomes more sophisticated, a network society has been constructed because of the increasingly frequent interactions through the Internet communications between social individuals, individuals and organizations, and among organizations. In recent years, the network society has developed into a stage paralleled to the real world. Internet users are bringing conflicts, contradictions, and a variety of emotional issues from the real society into the network society. They take the network as a channel of interests and a growing number of incidents involving mass internet users' participation have emerged, which has seriously affected today's social stability and social management. This paper, from a sociological perspective, offers a tentative analysis of group incidents over the internet using the theory of symbolic interactionism. The first part describes the purpose, methods, and ideas of the study, and summarizes the main research results achieved by previous researchers. In the second part, network group incidents are defined as symbolic interactions occurred on the internet, and the characteristics and mechanism of the network group events are introduced as well. The third part, from the aspects of interactive subjects and interactive tools, first analyzes the roles performed by different internet users and their functions during the process of network group events; and secondly, analyzes the interactive symbol system of the network mass incidents, including the types of symbols and how to use these symbols. The fourth part discusses the challenges caused by network group events to the judicial system, the social management system and crisis management. The fifth part points out the development trend of network group incidents. And the last part offers some suggestions on responses to the network group events.