Flash Play:An Interactive Game Among Strangers

Under the background of the modernity, a kind of heterogeneous, moving and fragmented life makes people break the separation of space and time,realize the conversion of some scenes, and have a choice to recreate and interact with strangers by the way of Flash Play. Based on the Flash Play Group forum in Douban.com, with the method of"process-event analysis", the present paper reveals the whole process of Flash Play: interacting subjects of Flash Play, interacting fields and contents and patterns of strangers'Flash Play, and interacting three-phase-interaction in the process of Flash Play. By the concept of Georg Simmel's'Strangers', the paper defines the two parties, and says the interaction as'Strangers'interaction", in the process of Flash Play. In the way of case study, the paper explores a new pattern of interactions among strangers, and reveals the transformation of city people's living way under the background of the modernity, thus showing the presence of strangers'interacting rules through the strangers'interacting patterns shown in the Flash Play activities.Interactions between Flash Play Group achieved a perforation from the online world to real life, and then back to the online world. This pattern of interactions is a new type of interactions among strangers in contemporary society. The platform of the internet, the aggregation of shared individual interests, the staggered space conversion in the virtual world and real life, and the phenomenon rooted in the concept of internal change----four aspects constitute a logical source of these interactions. These Flash Play activities reflect the changes of contemporary people in their living style and ways, the deeper reasons for which can be explored from both the micro and the macro aspects, which respectively are the impact of existential anxiety and the changes in social structure. Meanwhile, basing on the definition of the interaction among strangers, the paper reflects Strangers'interaction in China, and explores the features and development trend of this interaction, trying to provide a unique perspective to Strangers'interaction theory.