Currently, although local governments in China have opened official media accounts, they are often silent when confronted with conflicting issues on the Internet. As a result, the issues cannot be officially recognized, and the local media are vulnerable to being questioned and criticized by public opinion. In this paper, we find that the roles played by Chinese local media in online conflict issues can be categorized as "urged", "vocal" and "silent". Nowadays, Chinese media are still used as one of the "tools of governmental governance", but the logic of Internet technology has a profound impact on the original administrative logic: the uncontrollable choice of issues, the visibility of netizens in the process of governance, and the failure of the territorial management model. However, the power structure behind the technology of media governance has not been fundamentally changed. The "central-local" management model is still the basic power structure of the current media governance technology. The response and attention of the central media is an important condition for many conflict issues to enter the public space.

Wu Jin. Technological Changes in Chinese Media Governance: An Analysis Based on Conflicting Issues on the Internet. The Frontiers of Society, Science and Technology (2024), Vol. 6, Issue 3: 28-33. https://doi.org/10.25236/FSST.2024.060305.

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