Public Emergencies Network Of Public Opinion Research In China

In China, with the popularity of Internet and the rapid growth of Internet users in the new era, the Internet media has a profound impact on political, economic and cultural fields. Now, public feelings in the network have been discussed by more and more people, including the central government. Building a harmonious community, strengthening the PRC's governing capacity and improving governance levels need a harmonious network environment, and also need an increase in the research of the network popular feelings.Network popular feelings research is emerging and becomes an important study field. Network popular feelings are, in the cyberspace, the public's views, emotions and attitudes of public affairs, especially some social hot spots. Network popular feelings mainly exist in electronic bulletin boards (BBS), instant message (IM), e-mail, news groups, Blog and Digg etc.Government departments should have profound understanding that network popular feelings have positive and negative aspects. On one hand, Network popular feelings are non-rational; on the other hand, it plays a role as network supervisor. As the network of popular feelings have several characteristics such as extensive sources, anonymous subjects, personality together with collective of public feelings, emergency, and tremendous pressure of the masses. How to monitor the public feelings, how to analyze the network, how to guide public feelings, how to effectively use the Internet to predict and warn critical issues are practical problems for government to solve.Concerning network public feelings and establishing the response mechanism of network public feelings are government departments'and other relevant functional departments'obligation. Establishing this mechanism is, early warning and controlling for negative information in 7 x 24 hours. Once unusual circumstances are found, the government should take effective actions to deal with troubles in time. The contingency mechanism of network public feelings includes four links: monitoring of network public feelings, analysis of network public feelings, pre-warning of network public feelings and dealing with the network public feelings.