There’s a strict Internet regulation system in China, but the "human flesh search"forum made citizen participation and the information exchange to a new level of cyber culture, and this result regarded the participation of such network as a decentralized, diverse oriented, personal, and grassroots-style virtual communities.This exploratory analysis applied the notion of crowd-sourcing, panopticon, and synopticon to examine unrelated netizens to conduct cyber surveillance collaboratively under the central surveillance system. By analyzing the forum, the results also suggested that such collective cyber surveillance creates phenomenon of decentralized immersive participation, non-rational oriented spiral of silence, and distribution of power imbalance between the interactions in the digital age.
中文關鍵詞
人肉搜索、網路控制、監督、權力分配
英文關鍵詞
human flesh search, Internet regulation, surveillance, distribution of power.