Study On Social Interaction Of Hearing-impaired People Under The Theory Of New Media Empowerment

The new media depending on network technology and digital technology gradually extends and popularizes in the world.When people sigh that network greatly enriched the life of ordinary internet users,we should not neglect the new media's influence on the marginal groups.Based on the theory of the new media empowerment as the research paradigm,this paper studies characteristics of new media usage and social interaction of hearing-impaired people under the new media environment from the perspective of communication studies.Besides,the influence factors of the new media posed on social interaction and the mechanism of new media use empowerment for social interaction are also researched in this paper so as to help hearing-impaired people better able to improve their social communication ability and current situation with the help of media instruments in the new media environment.Therefore,this study combines the quantitative method and qualitative method,making use of questionnaires,depth interviews,non-participatory observation methods to carry on the research.By convenience sampling method,the author selected 330 hearing-impaired students from Zhengzhou School for Deaf and Blind,Special Education College of Zhengzhou Institute of Technology,Special Education College of Zhengzhou Normal University as the research sample.Entry the survey data and make descriptive statistics and regression analysis.It finds that deaf people are highly dependent on new media.New media become deaf people's tool of obtaining information and social intercourse.Meanwhile,Social interaction is under the influence of new media to a certain extent.It is reflected in social attitudes first of all,entertainment or sports content has a significant positive impact on attitude towards their own social interaction skills and social media;Secondly,it is reflected in the range of communication of the hearing-impaired people.The interaction and leisure behaviors and the time of using new media have a significant positive impact on the number of social contacts.In addition,as for the ability level of social intercourse,the interactive leisure behavior has a significant positive impact on initiative contact ability,appropriate refused ability,self-disclosure ability,conflict management ability,as well as emotional support ability.While,entertainment or sports content,information content,the behavior of studying or researching,as well as the frequency of the use of new media has a significant positive impact on the social intercourse ability of different capacity.Through the depth interview and further study in the observation field.It finds that the ways of deaf people using new media to promote social interaction are as follows: one is that the new media overcome the language barriers which exist in the real communication,and smooth the access to information.Second,hearing impaired people gain the sense of substitution and participation when they use the new media.It enhance their communication confidence and the communication enthusiasm.Thirdly,hearing impaired people get psychological support from social network news and network communities.It provide them spiritual motivation for participating in social interaction.Four is that deaf people examine and correct their communicative behavior by going shopping,playing games,learning,contacting with friends frequently in the internet.Besides,they improve communication skills and get knowledge in the way of learning and imitating.Fifth,the abundant information resources of new media provide the topic and the chance of communication.Sixth,the hearing impaired people use new media to establish or expand social network resources,and strengthen the connection of real relationship network.At the same time,the author also finds that the unfavorable communication environment and the lack of new media literacy are the main factors restricting the empowerment of new media.For research findings,the author put forward to improving media literacy of deaf people,building medium for the spread of barrier-free environment,building online communication platform for the deaf and health people to promote the deaf people to raise the level of social interaction in the new media environment.