Students Self-identity Construct

The development of new communication technologies promotes the evolution of media forms. The rapid rise of the Internet, regarded as the fourth media following the press, radio and television, is a new milestone in the history of media evolution. As the technology further develops (such as RSS, Ajax, TAG, SNS), the Internet enters 2.0 era from 1.0 era. Only 10 years of time, the information dissemination media on the internet, such as blog, have made the individual the absolute protagonist in the Web2.0 era "Blog" means "Web log", which is the fourth means of internet communication following E-mail, BBS and ICQ. It has become the most typical representative of the application of Web2.0.Domestic and international research shows that college students are the most stable and most active group who both use the network and the blog. They can represent the main internet users and the main blog writers and readers. Adolescent college students are susceptible to the self-identity crisis, according to the American psychologist Eric Eriksson. Therefore, the core task of adolescent college students is to establish self-identity and exclude self-loss, which require their sufficient self-reflection, self-expression and social interaction in order to establish their self-identity. This dissertation will probe in what channels college students construct their self-identification and how they construct their self-identity.Taylor, Giddens, Cote share the view that we have changed the way we perceive ourselves, present ourselves and reproduce ourselves. Self-identity has been transformed from outside to inside and from passive to initiative. The emergence of the blog is providing the platform of self-reflection, self-expression and self-construction for college students. The blog can meet the needs of college students to pursue fashion and leisure, divert from loneliness, confide and vent, exchange mutually and achieve self-worth. With both publicity and personality, it can help students build self-identity more than interpersonal communication, traditional diary, E-mail, BBS, ICQ and personal home page. Namely, it can help students to determine who they are in self-reflection, self-expression and social interaction. Blog is a platform for college students to build their self-identity. There is no doubt that it has left traces of their self-identity construction, shown the course of their thought, which are bound to be marked with the social and cultural brand. Thus, in the following chapters, the author, with personal blogs of many college students as a research textand based on the observation and interviews, mainly examines how college studentsconstruct their self-identity from a psychological, social and cultural dimension. Thechapters are in the order of self-construction, role recognition and cultural conversion.With regard to the self-constructed on the internet, the majority of early studiesare focused on purely anonymous identity construction, easy to draw the conclusionthat Internet users construct a new identity completely different from the real self.However, the blog is not purely anonymous. It can be both anonymous and real-name,and the identity of the blog writer can be easily recognized even though it isanonymous. Through the observation and interview, it is known that the self thecollege students construct in the blog is the combination of inner self, actual self andideal self. Anonymous blogs help construct the inner self, the real-name blogs helpconstruct the actual self, and the features of blog to facilitate impression managementenable them to construct the ideal self.Role is formed in society. The roles which are closely related to the university students include job titles, the age and the class. "College Students" are the role for college students to play. Because of the big difference between University life and high school life, college students easily lose themselves. The college expansion plan and the reform of employment system has transformed the "favored persons" to "ordinary workers", which give rise to the status anxiety of university students. Therefore, the college students need have a new self-position. College students tend to position themselves based on their interests, abilities and expectations in society and thus make clear their direction and objectives. In terms of age, most college students are "post-80s". "post-80s" have caused nationwide controversy, particularly the comments of the writer Wang Shuo. In answering back the comments of Wang Shuo, the college students construct their age identity. In terms of class, the meaning of "petty bourgeoisie" has evolved gradually, its economic, political, colors having been fading. It has become a way of life, a sentiment of life and a taste of life. Objectively, students do not belong to "petty bourgeoisie" class, but they are subjectively identifying themselves as "petty bourgeoisie", which are revealed by their sentiment and taste.Human beings are cultural beings and society is a cultural society. The current China is in transition from a traditional society to a modem society and entered the era of globalization. In the collision between tradition and modernity and the conflict and fusion of Chinese and Western culture, cultural values of college students have changed and their individual survival consciousness living ways have also changed. Their cultural identity takes on the feature of diversification. We can not simply come to a conclusion that college students, influenced by modern culture and Western culture, break with the tradition, totally westernize, and have an aversion to the motherland. Through the comments of college students on "Wenchuan Earthquake", "Beijing Olympics" and "the 60th anniversary of National Day," we can find that university students haven't forgotten the hometown symbolizing the tradition despite the impact of modernization and still have a high identity of hometown; university students haven't abandoned their homeland under the impact of globalization and still have an identity of their homeland. This shows that their cultural identity is the open and plural identity which combines tradition with modernity and localization with globalization.In short, in the most vulnerable stage of self-identity crisis, in the self-identity transition from outside to inside, from passive to active, the rapid rise of the blog is rightly providing the platform of self-reflection, self-expression and self-construction for college students. It fuses the single and fragmented self in the past network into a comprehensive and complete self. College students integrate the outside world into their self-narration, and construct their self identity actively, rather than a passive choice, which is the main line running through the full dissertation.