[Annotation4(Revised)] The Internet Carnival

                                                              The Internet Carnival

     Human flesh search is a collective behavior. Netizens look for evidence with every kind of network tools like online platforms which contain the personal information. This collective behavior takes action first and then organize it themselves. With the changing of the subject, the group automatically assembles and takes action respectively. There is no specific leader. Everyone can do what he want to do. Human flesh is a self-organization.(Yuan & Chen, 2013）

Human flesh search provides a stage for the common people to voice for their ideas. It is like a carnival on the internet. In Mikhail Bakhtin’s The Carnivalesque, everyone can join the carnival which has no boundary and anyone whether his social status is high or low can play a part in. (Pan, 2007) Carnival is not an official activity. It stands for the civil. In the carnival, the differences between status, property, family background and age do not exist. People share everything with each other.

Human flesh search is conducted by a group of netizens. There is the roles task-functions (角色分工) (Yuan & Chen, 2013）:

1. Mobilize: The one decides the target and others who have something to do

with the target.

2. Information-seeking: People asks the question or look for the resource.

3. Elaborating: People analyze the evidence.

4. Testing: People examine the evidence they found.

5. Free rider: People do nothing and just wait for the outcome.

6. Dissident: People do not agree with human flesh search and ask others to follow the legal official procedure.

7. Distracter: People provide the information which has nothing to do with the discussion.

8. Information broker: People bring the information in or out. They transmit the message.

        People are both performers and audience in the carnival. In the past, the judiciary plays the role of cracking down the crime and represents the justice. By human flesh search, the common people can also investigate the illegal things.

References

袁涵郁、陳百齡（2013）。《由人肉搜索事件看網路集體行動：情節、角色與協力的尋人行為》，中華傳播學會 2013 年會論文http://ccs.nccu.edu.tw/history_paper_content.php?P_ID=1496&P_YEAR=2013

潘俊峰 (2007)。《巴赫金狂欢化理论及其影响》

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