Probe into the function of social safety valve of blog in depth

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Content Abstract: Blog in China's development speed is very rapid, but also produced a lot of new social problems. Standardize and guide the smooth development of the blog has become an inevitable trend, but in standardizing and guiding the development of the blog, the blog's social safety valve function should be valued, protected and played. Based on this objective, this paper probes into the social safety valve function of the blog.

Key Words: Blog social safety valve Analysis

The word "blog" comes from English Blog,blog is the short name of Web log, the combination of web and log. We generally think of blogging as a Web page consisting of a short, often updated post (i.e., a post), a way to express personal thoughts, content, chronological order, and constantly updated online publishing and communication. Blog in China's rapid development, according to the survey, since 2002, the blog in China has increased more than 30 times, as at the end of August 2006, China's Blog (blogger) reached 17.485 million people, including active blog 7.694 million. ① with the development of the blog, a large number of new social problems generated by the blog began to emerge: blog abuse, net bash, plagiarism, pornography ... The new social problems created by blogs have aroused a lot of people's attention. Some people expect to achieve the healthy and orderly development of blog through moral code, and the relevant aspects have always been in action here: November 16, 2003 blog China to the blogosphere issued to comply with the "blog ethics" of the proposal for advice, China blog in early March 2006 again launched the signing of the "blog Convention" Activities, April 19, 2006, the first blog convention, "The Convention on the self-discipline of civilized Internet access" officially issued; some people think that the management of the blog should be implemented "real-name", "2006 China Blog Report" In September 2006 just released, As the completion of the report, China Internet Association Blog Research Group received the Ministry of Information Industry commissioned research blog Real-Name system to restrict the negative function of the blog.

To standardize and guide the blog, this is a necessary process of blog development, the only way to ensure the healthy and orderly blog world. However, in standardizing and guiding the development of the blog, we should try our best to protect the blog some positive functions, so that the blog in the social development play a greater role. But the author of the study of the blog found that at present people in the judgment of a normative measure can be implemented, mostly from the implementation of this normative measures will hurt the spirit of the blog, whether it will affect the development of Chinese blog and whether it can effectively restrain the negative impact of the blog. In the current lack of mining and research on other social functions of blogs, an improper normative measure may hurt the active function of blog. The author discovers that the blog has obvious social safety valve function in the research, while standardizing and guiding the development of the blog, we must protect the good and make use of this positive function of this blog.

The social safety valve function of the blog

Society is constantly moving, during which there are various contradictions and conflicts that arise and accumulate. But the contradiction should dissolve and should not accumulate, to the discontent should divert rather than interception. Safety valve is set up to prevent container explosion, sociologists will introduce the principle of safety valve into the sociological theory, is to set up a regular, institutionalized channel for the society to achieve normal communication between different social subjects and vent their discontent. It will guarantee the safe operation of the society, digging a river for the blocked river, draining the accumulated discontent in time to avoid the occurrence of the catastrophic conflict. We found in the study, the blog has a safety valve that kind of contradictory buffering and grooming function.

1. Blogs provide a place for people to vent their emotions

German biologist Schultz created the term "vent hole", which is used to refer to the custom and system of the primitive society to provide institutionalized export for the general inner drive which is hostile and suppressed by the group. Such exports are tantamount to providing a channel for the choked river, which keeps other parts of the social life from being affected by devastating effects. The society is composed by the individual, the individual psychology and the behavior has the considerable influence to the whole society's movement, especially when the individual's psychological behavior tendency and the social promotion value orientation conflict, even when opposite, will form a strong psychological pressure. It causes the social behavior to be more based on the repressed emotion, often produces the negative social benefit. When a person has a good psychological balance mechanism, this kind of emotion will not become the behavior that endangers the society, when a person cannot shake off the control of depressive emotion, need outside to create a certain kind of environment and condition of catharsis and discharge. At this point, the blog can act as a vent for people's emotions, when people in a timely and appropriate way to let discontent and dissent in their own blog to vent, so as to prevent the contradiction and conflict of excessive repression and aggregation, and thus prevent the total outbreak of contradictions and conflicts, avoid the chaos of social order, Ensure the relative stability of the society needed for modernization.

2, Blog provides people with a channel of interest expression and communication

Since the reform and opening up, especially the deepening of social transformation, social stratification presents economic, political, cultural and other pluralistic standards coexist pattern, the emergence of a complex and diverse interest groups. All interest groups have their own interests appeal, in order to coordinate the interests of various interest groups, first of all, we must ensure that the interests of different interest groups to express channels unimpeded. The government needs to understand the contradictions and grievances in the society in time and objectively, so as to formulate the countermeasures of contradiction response and buffering in time and effectively. If the government does not understand the contradictions in the society, the contradictions will accumulate and the social discontent will grow, which will eventually lead to social unrest and even a social and political crisis. Each interest group also needs to exchange in the thought, the information, the sentiment and so on, can help to avoid or reduce each other misunderstanding, increases each interest stratum mutual trust, then may realize the social stability.

In the traditional media, some interest groups, especially the vulnerable groups are often subjected to some kind of forceful interference, the expression of discourse is in obvious weakness. The common characteristics of the blog make all social strata have equal opportunity to express their interests and demands in the public domain. In this way, many new problems, new contradictions through the blog can be reflected in time, it is easy to be in the bud when they are given to resolve, guidance. At the same time, the openness and interactivity of the blog can make the different interest groups see the needs of other interest groups, and can realize mutual understanding in the interaction.

3. Blogs provide a way for people to seek help from society

In social life, a person's strength is often too weak, in the individual encounter alone with their own hard to overcome difficulties, can be sent through the blog to send social Help information. Blogs are contagious and open, and when a person is expressing themselves in a blog, his comments will spread across the global Internet network. Personal encounters may be with the help of the people, or in the support of the public opinion to get a more smooth solution, so that individuals do not have to turn to help without the door and to the society to adopt a more extreme means, which in the real life of the lack of discourse rights of vulnerable groups to be more just to play a role in promoting. There is a typical example, October 5, 2006, a Pingtan project manager named "Chenli" in Sina opened a blog called "Escape in Enshi", and in the above published "tens of millions of people because of engineering disputes were hunted to flee Hubei mountains" post, the readme because of engineering disputes were hunted, sleeping in the wild, and allot a number of live pictures. "Chenli" in the blog "complaints" quickly aroused the attention of netizens and the media, under the pressure of public opinion, the local public security organs quickly involved in the investigation. Regardless of the results of the survey, the blog in this case to play a social help function.

Second, blog social safety valve function operation characteristics

After understanding the social safety valve function of the blog, we also need to analyze the characteristics of the blog to play the function of social safety valve, only in this way can we really find out the advantages of the blog in the social safety valve function and the possible existence of the need for us to overcome the place.

1, blog social safety valve for people's accessibility

Blog can be said to be a "0 entry threshold" online personal publishing, that is, the blog to meet the "40" Conditions: "0 Edit, 0 technology, 0 system, 0 cost, 0 forms." "0 Editors", the lack of the blog "gatekeeper" to ensure that people's interests can be the most authentic expression; 0 technology ", as long as people who will apply for free mailbox, basically can quickly grasp the use of blog, from the technical level for ordinary people to publish information to open up channels;" 0 system, It can save the link and restriction of the expression of social interest, "0 cost", which guarantees the equal rights of people with different economic conditions in the interest appeal. It is the blog "40" conditions, so that in with other social safety valve, for example, petition, compared to have a certain comparative advantage. Not only ensure that people enter the blog and the right to speak, the greatest degree of democratization, but also to ensure the unimpeded communication channels. We know that communication channel is the vent area of social safety valve mechanism, it is the legal way, occasion and opportunity that people express dissatisfaction and tension. The more unimpeded and broader the channel, the less likely or necessary it is for people to respond to economic and social inequalities in a socially unacceptable way. From this point of view, blog can be used as a successful social safety valve mechanism, give people the same opportunity to dissatisfaction and different opinions timely vent and expression.

2, blog social safety valve operation of the cost of

Coser, a Master of conflict theory, argues that the conflict "cleans the air" by allowing the free expression of the act to prevent the accumulation of blocked hostile tendencies and thus the efficacy of social safety valves. Conflict provides an alternative to hostile emotions and means of venting that, through these safety valves, hostility does not point to the original goal. "When attacking an alternate target, a new conflict with an alternative will occur, although the original relationship can be protected by communication that leads to the channel of attack." The substitution of "②" also has to be paid by social systems and individuals. "③

Similarly, the blog as a social safety valve in operation is also a cost. Blogging provides an outlet for people to vent their grievances and opinions on blogs in a timely and appropriate manner, making them less likely to point directly to the original hostile target. But the catharsis of this kind of emotion can cause harm to social system and individual, even produce new contradiction. For example, what we often see now is the disclosure of the privacy of others on blogs, abuses, personal attacks, and even online fights have done harm to the moral environment of the individual and the blogosphere, and when bloggers have a social injustice, they often arouse the reader's "empathy", making people more dissatisfied with the state of the Society, It may threaten social stability.

3, blog social safety valve to solve the problem of the incomplete

Coser that "the use of the safety valve system will lead to an alternative to the target of the actors: he no longer needs to address the unsatisfactory situation, but merely to demand the release of the resulting hostility." In such cases, unsatisfactory conditions remain unchanged or become more serious. "④ that, social safety valve mechanism can vent hostility, transfer targets, but it can not solve the problem, can only alleviate contradictions, can not resolve contradictions." The final solution of the contradiction needs to be complemented by other aspects.

Blog in the Play Social safety net function, usually also cannot completely eliminate the contradiction in the blog. For example, there is a group of interest in the blog to send their own legitimate interests to improve their situation, in addition to the public opinion on the blog support, this group needs to improve their situation in reality. To improve their situation, it may require the cooperation of many departments, even the transformation of the relevant system and so on. For example, when an individual encounters a difficult situation in his or her life that he or she cannot overcome, the purpose is to arouse the concern of the relevant departments and the public's sympathy and support in order to solve the real problems in their lives.

Third, for the blog's social safety valve function better play to create conditions

After understanding the features of the blog's social safety valve function, we should be based on these characteristics in the social management as well as in the blog world norms, guidance and management attention to the long, to avoid its short, make the blog's social safety valve function of comparative advantage can be fully played.

1, fully protect the spirit of the blog equality, freedom of the essence

Equality and freedom is a kind of spirit essence of the blog, is also the biggest charm of the blog. The low threshold and anonymity of the blog entry, make the blog won the "Grass-roots" and "go to the center of" The laudatory name, "No one in the network know you are a dog" this sentence on the network widely circulated, not only shows the freedom of the network, but also embodies the network of tolerance and equality. On the Internet blog, people do not have the identity of the difference, there is no power of the other. The anonymity of the blog makes the authority and centrality of real life disappear. Grassroots in the blog to find in the real life of the equal feeling, can be more without obstacles to express the heart of the real thoughts and feelings.
In a word, the low threshold and anonymity of the blog makes people, especially the socially disadvantaged groups, have more equal opportunities to vent their emotions, express their interests and send out social assistance information. We regulate blog management, can not hurt with the equality and freedom of the blog, otherwise, will greatly weaken the social safety valve function of the blog comparative advantage.

2, clear our tolerance to the blog injury

When blogging functions as a social safety valve, society and individuals may have to bear a certain price, for example, when individuals vent their emotions and abuse others, challenge traditional social morals, attack social systems, and so on. Faced with these costs, we must find a balance between social safety valves. Xingdong, known as "The Godfather of Chinese blog", in order to realize the healthy and orderly development of the blog in China, the "blog Ethics Code" issued to the blogosphere, ⑤ the principle of harm minimization, hoping that the author of this principle will be self disciplined. But the anonymity of the internet, especially when people vent their dissatisfaction, it is impossible to be so rational, the harm will inevitably occur. Since the injury is indispensable, we have to hurt the blog first to have a tolerant mentality, and then one is to clarify our tolerance of this harm. Bloggers should be free to express their rights in their own blog, but there must be a limit to this freedom. Here I would like to revise the principle of Xingdong, is the lesser injury principle, that is, in venting our dissatisfaction, we should try to control the degree of no more than other people or society to bring harm to us, I think this is a minimum vent principle.

3. Establish an effective and timely action response system

    Blog In the social safety valve operation, can divert the target, adjust dissatisfaction or hostility, but can not solve the problem, can only alleviate contradictions, and can not resolve contradictions, and even may make tension, hostility to lurk. Blog social safety valve function of the real realization, and finally can only be solved in the real society. Therefore, our Government and society should establish an effective and timely action response system. Organize a dedicated collection of information on the network (including, of course, blogs), in time to transfer the collected information through the classification to other implementing agencies or civil society organizations, and to track things. For instance, for example, if it is criminal, the agency can pass information on to the judiciary, and if it is impoverished, it can pass it on to the charities concerned. If the interest groups express their interests on the blog, the organization can send this information to the NPC or the government for its decision. In this way, the social contradictions can be unblocked and not piled up, which threatens the stability of society.