Conflict Theory Under The Perspective Of Network Mass Incidents

In2009, the Outlook Weekly rolled out a special report named "Network mass incident", listing numerous network mass incidents happened before2009. Since then, the concept of network mass incident jumped out of the academic field and to the public.In2011, It is weibo that took the lead on reporting the7.23Wenzhou Bullet Train Accident and network voice played an inestimable role in the following process.In the same year, flaunt wealth incident of Sina weibo’s authenticated user "guomeimei baby" caused a backlash in the public, the netizens was questioning the Guo Meimei’s money resource and also the expenditure of Chinese Red Cross. Under such circumstance, the questioning voice of netizen was increasing enough to influenced the real world, led to zero donation incidents of many province in the following monthes.The power of network has already developed from a chaotic state in the early phase into a strong and visible state, even exerted certain influence to social order and stability of the real world. The paper started to think about this problem based on such background.Though analyzing the reason, process and the function of such56network mass incidents, the paper reached the following conclusion:Network mass incident is a kind of conflict events caused by frustration of interest articulation, including interest like Patriotic Sentiments, moral emotion, state regime, state power and financial resource.The generating process of network mass incidents has three phases:individual to interest group, interest group to conflict group, conflict. This process is involved in individual psychology, practical network conditions like network environment, poster, value system, government attitude, forum, etc., conflict regulation method in network mass incidents, overlapping degree of interest group, power connection, and involving degree of payment distribution and others.The function of network mass incidents has positive and negative effects. Besides, effect of such function is more and more notable in recent years, such as network violence, network supervision and etc..