The Media Life Of Immigrants From ShiHezi District

While the concept of Xinjiang seems to have been linked with desolation and uninhabited land, since the foundation of the new China, large numbers of Han Chinese immigrants, who has brought the full range of changes in Xinjiang and turned the desert into acres of farmland, has not only affected the economic development of Xinjiang, but also cultural pattern of Xinjiang. Numerous studies of Xinjiang mainly focused on the following aspects:Firstly, Xinjiang General History of research; Secondly, the various ethnic minorities in Xinjiang; thirdly, the relationship between the Han people and minority. In recent years, the attention to Han immigrants of Xinjiang has increased constantly, while the attention to these immigrants’ cognitive and imaginative reconstruction of their hometown has not. As a matter of fact, immigrants experience emotional changes in the process of immigrating; the most important and direct factor is the mass media in the media age.As a native of the third generation of immigrants in Xinjiang, I witness the emotion change of the first generation and second-generation immigrants to their hometown, from loving to longing until feeling helpless. During decades in Xinjiang, I really try to figure out what influences their perception of hometown, what makes home more diluted, media plays what role in their lives. I selected ShiHezi region as researching objective because ShiHezi is a city that is constructed completely by immigrants from other provinces of China, and the people living here are the third generation of the creators of ShiHezi. ShiHezi region is the place where I grew up, which not only adds much convenience for me to do this study, but also guarantees the systematic study of credibility and depth data.The research adopted questionnaire, interview, aiming to present in multi-angles Shihezi area immigrants living on its perception of the media, and found out the reasons behind it, trying to restore a true immigrants life.The survey found that there is a big difference in the way the first, second, third generations of immigrants using the media, a direct result of such differences in media use leads to the different cognition to their hometown. As time goes by, the second and the third generation pays less attention to their ancestral home compared with the first generation, in other words, hometown feeling is weakened gradually. However, the changes on the cognition and feeling to their hometown among the three generations are affected mutually. Three generations of immigrants living media is independent and affect each other. This paper will start with media study life in Han immigrant groups ShiHezi in media use and the emotional changes behind it.