Research On The Impact Of Media News Construction On Public Conflict And Its Governance

Public conflict are that conflict that involve public interests and affairs.In the current governance of public conflict,we have realized the importance of news issues to conflict and its governance,but lack knowledge of news construction,analysis of news construction levels,and a deep understanding of the role and functioning conditions of news issues frameworks.So we just adopt such simple methods as repression or strengthening,which often strengthen the negative impact of some news issues frameworks,weaken the positive impact of these,and cause unreasonable functions of news construction in the governance of public conflicts.In the era of media society,public conflict and its governance have become increasingly dependent on news information.The outbreak,escalation and proliferation of public conflict require information that can lead to public conflict,the dissemination of news information among key populations,faster dissemination speeds.They also the content of information which is able to arouse public opposition and resonance and information can be continuously supplied.Public conflict governance also needs information that helps the conflict to subside,resolve,and transform,requires information to influence key populations,can be widely accepted,and information that requires the digestion continuously of information which cause confrontation.The development of modern media technologies represented by the Internet better satisfies the need of public conflict and its governance for news information,and reinforces the dependence of public conflicts and their governance on news information.The reliance of public conflict and its governance on news information requires the rational function of news construction.News information is the constructive product on social events of the media.The media's news construction focuses on controversial and conflicting social events in the public domain.The news construction of the media includes the surface-level construction,which mainly focus on the reporting form,and the deep-level construction,which follow closely the issues framework.The surface-level construction of news is the construction of reporting forms,which include the topic selection,content arrangement,narrative form and attitude of news information content.And the deep-level construction of news is the construction of the topic framework,which include the news information provision method and it provide perspectives,ideas,and criteria for audience used to look at the issues.The media influences the cognition,emotion,evaluation,and action intention of conflicting subjects through surface-level and deep-level construction of news,which influences the development process of public conflict and its governance effects.According to the function of news construction on public conflicts and their governance,the news construction methods can be divided into four types: "inspiring type","extinguishing type","resolving type" and "transforming type".And these four types of new construction methods have different kinds of impacts in such periods of public conflict as latency,outbreak,escalation and subsidence,which create obstacles or opportunities for the governance of public conflicts.Whether the new construction could play a role in public conflict and its governance depends on social background conditions,media conditions,audience conditions,and matching conditions for information transmission.By changing these functional conditions,we could correspond the media news construction to the needs of public conflict governance,and make full use of the positive functions of the media news construction on public conflict governance,and make its negative functions inhibited and transformed accordingly.