The Research On The Influence Of The Value Of College Students’ Communication On The Internet

With the advent of the Internet age, the rapid development and the widespread useof Internet technology in China, a new way of communication has been created, that is,network communication. Network communication has quietly and gradually penetratedinto college students’ learning and life, and is becoming an indispensable part ineveryday life of students. College is a critical period of life, a turning point, networkcommunication influences not only students’ cognitive style behavior and thinking mode,but also their ideology. College is the key period to form one’s life values. With thecharacteristics of efficiency, virtualization and openness, network communication alsoinfluences one’s life values. However, anything has two sides. In addition to the positiveinfluence on students’ life values, it also is a negative factor due to students’ immaturities,incomplete of their cognition and inadequacy of their judgment. Therefore, appropriatestrategies should be applied in order to take the advantage of positive side of networkcommunication, enhance their resistance to negative influence and form the correct lifevalues in network communication.In this thesis, the study object is college students. Firstly, starting with the essenceof human interaction, it analyzes Carl Marx’s and Engels’ understanding ofcommunication, discusses internet communication under the interacting theory ofMarxism, further explains the meaning, features, main forms and functions of internetcontacts. Secondly, it disserts the meaning and characteristics of college students’values, elaborates internet communication is one of the major factors to influence collegestudents’ life values. Through the analysis of a survey on college students internetcontacts, it describes internet communication’s positive and negative influence onstudents’ life values. Lastly, it discusses how internet contacts could influence student’slife values on the aspects of internet, educator and students. The appropriate suggestionsare proposed, in order to maximize of internet communication’s positive effects onstudents’ life values and minimize the negative ones.