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Research On Mobile Phone Use And The Change Of Social Interaction In Rural Society

Posted on:2020-03-04Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L Y DengFull Text:PDF
GTID:2417330599457196Subject:Ethnology
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The social model of traditional Chinese rural society is based on kinship and geographical ties,with a strong "human" color.In recent years,with the comprehensive development of mobile communication technology,mobile phone is no longer just a communication tool similar to telephone in the traditional sense.In the era of new media and digital communication,mobile portability,real-time,emotional and symbolic features make the mobile phone has become a traditional Chinese rural society plays an important role in daily life of interpersonal interaction tools,brought huge impact to the traditional rural society,rural society cell phone use and the related research has become a new research scholars.However,at present,in domestic and foreign researches on mobile phone use and rural society,there are few researches on the research content of mobile phone promoting the social pattern change of rural society.In terms of research methods,there are few qualitative researches on mobile phone use tracking in the investigated communities.Therefore,through long-term,continuous and traceable participatory observation in the field,the author starts from the social field of rural society with smart phones and discusses the influence of mobile phones on the social mode and structure of traditional rural society.The author tries to answer: what kind of influence does the use of mobile phones have on the social pattern of traditional rural society? Did the use of mobile phones expand their original social circle and thus promote the change of traditional rural social pattern? Did this change break the network of social relations centering on consanguinity and geography for thousands of years?This paper is divided into seven parts,the first part is the introduction,the second part to the sixth part is the text,the seventh part is the conclusion.The first part the author reference of ethnology,sociology,anthropology,communication,etc.That is associated with the selected topic of academic works and some representative research,trying to review the more comprehensive overview now mobile phone with the researches of the rural society,hand over to treat to the research of this paper research background and the selected topic,the feasibility of development and practical application;The second part the author of the survey villages of natural geography and communication environment,historical roots and family relations,social economy and the summary of the three aspects of the overall information interaction,presents the basic situation villages,and the propagation environment,which highlights the characteristics of the propagation environment in the region,to later when it comes to the media of different times change and social intercourse between macro background;The third part is the change of the village communication media.Based on the interview material of the life history of a 75-year-old man in the village,the author describes the historical picture of the village residents using different media for social communication in different times in the process of modernization,thus leading to the opportunity and process of mobile phone entering the rural society.The fourth part is the text construction of the situation of different groups of residents using mobile phones in the village.In the fifth part,based on the textual construction mentioned above,the author focuses on the changes of social topics,social objects and social space in rural social communication before and after the use of mobile phones,and demonstrates that mobile phones promote the changes of social communication modes in rural society.The sixth part explores the changes of mobile phone use and the social structure of rural society,which is not only an extension of the previous chapter,but also a focus and refinement of the whole paper.The conclusion of the seventh part is a combing of the whole paper,which not only summarizes the core issues of this paper: mobile phone use and the changes of rural social patterns,but also discusses the continuation of traditional rural characteristics in the changes based on the changes of mobile phone use and rural areas.According to the author's research,the mobile Internet platform based on mobile phone terminal brings wireless possibility to the traditional social communication mode of rural society,blurring the boundary between kinship and region.Through mobile phones,the social interaction of rural residents is no longer confined to the present moment,which compresses time,transcends space,breaks the limitations of the surrounding world and spreads to the common world to interact with strangers.At the same time,the change of local social communication mode further affects the social structure: first,from acquaintances to strangers,the "human" and "non-human" social networks in the virtual social space start to mix,and the human society is gradually deconstructed;Secondly,from elder authority to young leaders,power structure starts to shift due to mobile Internet brought by mobile terminal.Third,the intimate relationship is also affected by the world on the mobile phone,resulting in cracks.Based on the above,this paper demonstrates that mobile phones have indeed promoted the change of traditional rural social communication mode and even social structure.Everyone has created new social network based on mobile Internet platform of mobile terminal.However,we still need to see that the rural character in the traditional concept of rural social networking has not disappeared.In the online virtual social networking space,the relatives,friends and neighbors of rural society still maintain a myriad of relationships.
Keywords/Search Tags:Rural society, Media, Social interaction, Mobile phone
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