Author(s)

Yanchang Hou ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Criminal Investigation Police University of China, Shenyang, Liaoning, China

Corresponding Author

Yanchang Hou

ABSTRACT

The impact of a major epidemic disease on society can easily lead to negative social emotions, which will form a public opinion crisis in cyberspace and other spaces, thus affecting the normal operation of society. As the night watchman, the police organs and the increasingly developed media have a complex relationship of conflict and cooperation in their functions and roles in the face of related negative public opinions. Among them, the conflict between the calmness of the official notification and the shortness of public opinion of We-Media, as well as the conflict between the public opinion on major emergencies and the cognition of whether the facts of emergencies are true, is the most intense. Nevertheless, the existing research focuses on the conflict between the police and the media, but ignores the cooperative relationship model. The key to police-media collaboration lies in information transmission channels, interactive communication channels and cooperative handling mechanisms, while strengthening the advantages of media in the effective dissemination of information. Therefore, the effective integration of the operation mechanism of police-media relationship and the construction of the cooperation mechanism between police and media can scientifically discover and use the epidemic situation and the regularity of its public opinion transmission, and eliminate the psychological panic caused by the epidemic situation. In this paper, supported by social governance community theory, social role theory and structured theory, the research methods such as literature analysis, historical research, social network analysis and comparative analysis were adopted to clarify the relevant elements of the police-media relationship theory in the collaborative early warning process and clarify the relevant legal basis. Furthermore, a police-media interaction and coordination liaison platform was established, and the police-media coordination and early warning model was established from the aspects of the information extraction mechanism of epidemic emergencies, the agenda setting of the media for the transmission of emergency information, the joint verification of the police-media and the secondary transmission, etc., and the related mechanism of police-media coordination and management of social panic was constructed, so as to jointly deal with the epidemic major emergencies.

KEYWORDS

Police-media, Collaborative governance, Panic public opinion, Mechanism

CITE THIS PAPER

Yanchang Hou, Conflict-Cooperation: Police-Media Collaborative Governance of Social Panic Public Opinion under Major Epidemic Situation. Media and Communication Research (2022) Vol. 3: 43-51. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/mediacr.2022.030208.

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