Global Times: Challenging the power of the network in the Big Data age

The United Nations published a White paper on big data for development last year, prompting governments to predict unemployment by "emotional analysis" of social networks and mobile phone messages. Big data hit, coincides with China "network anti-corruption" supercharged autumn. With the micro-blog real name report, indecent video spread, the official network of the ability to govern has been challenged all day.

In fact, the big data age to take the initiative to regain the net lost ground, is to promote reform, anti-corruption opportunities. The reason is: first, netizens can do on the network, regardless of evidence salvage or information disclosure, anti-corruption agencies can do, and can do more professional; second, regardless of the original ecological explosion or original comments, netizens do the cross-border in many developed countries are also difficult to tolerate.

In the era of large data, although people can break through bottlenecks to improve public governance, but the network is not outside the law of the place, right and wrong. The Singapore Internet Media Licensing Framework, which came into force in June this year, has to be deleted within 24 hours for refusing to apply for an official licence for unlawful broadcasting offences and imprisonment, and for the website to spread violations of public order or national harmony. Domestic governance Qin, Lema and other rumors of Red and the Navy company just "on the road." The Snowden incident has revealed the hypocrisy of US internet policy and the power of its national "control network". Obviously, the big data highlights the information regulation, the technical renewal and so on official superiority, should occasion regain No-holds's net lost ground.

First, to regain the voice of public opinion supervision. In January this year, the People's Daily created a front-page 21106.html "> 12 Monthly Report of the public opinion supervision of the new record." So preach public opinion supervision is sound, can block the network rumor "Pang". We should further strengthen the ability of the mainstream media to extract the problem clues from the large network data, and set up the news clue to the discipline supervision organ to submit the mechanism and strengthen the authority of public opinion supervision.

Second, enhance the network agenda to set the power. In the "Everyone has a microphone" of the public opinion field, the mass line to the virtual space extension, the new media, from the media into the official "mutual media" to reduce the incidence of noisy noise. Improve the public affairs of the network open quality, so that more network events "The first landing" source out of the official website. The network feedback as the national mentality of the coordinate pedigree, so that "separated from the air" into the line under the seamless communication, improve the official discourse of the network arrival rate and the acceptance of Internet users.

Third, anti-corruption efforts are "in numbers". The World Bank's "Open Data Program" explores the use of large data to prevent corruption, and the US police are using digital maps and historical information to predict crime hotspots and deploy police forces beforehand. Using large data to create efficient anti-corruption system is the key to regain the lost land. such as discipline inspection and inspection agencies in the fragmentation of information to build active search engine, to capture the problem clues behind the "net" and "spit", to reduce the cost of discovering corruption; To activate the "dormant" status of cadres report personal matters Information database, strengthen the supervision of financial databases, financial crime prevention, State-owned enterprises compliance management.

Four, construct the new Order of network communication. Rationality, norm and order are the trend of "rebalancing" in virtual space. One is balance of powers and responsibilities. To promote network behavior to balance the expression of rights and law-abiding responsibility, "the rule of law Nets", cleaning network garbage. Second, internal and external balance. The construction of Chinese version of "Network Army", "Network police", maintenance of network information security, to deal with the impact of foreign sources on China's Network society. The third is the soft and hard balance. Not only increase the network public service hardware input, but also increase the quality of network culture products supply, enhance the national network media literacy. such as the sense of social network and custom-made public service advertising, the corruption of the generalized psychological formation of "soft hedge" power. (The author is deputy Secretary-General of China Independent Research Center of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)