[Annotation4] The Internet Carnival

     Human flesh search is a collective behavior. Netizens look for evidence with every kind of network tools like online platform which contains the personal information. This collective behavior take action first and then organized. 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. (袁涵郁、陳百齡,2013, p12）

Human flesh search provide a stage for the common people to voice for their idea. 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. (潘俊峰,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.

        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.

Reference

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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