Research On The Construction Of Intimate Relationships Among Young People In Social Media

In the context of the rapid rise of mobile social media,the form of interpersonal communication of young people has undergone tremendous changes.Among which,the process of constructing the intimacy of youth is also widely extended in social media."Media is metaphor",young people fully demonstrate the cultural landscape of the new era and new social contact in social media.Therefore,this paper chooses the"CP for One Week",a social platform of love dating,which has typical characteristics of the times.Users are younger and more knowledgeable,and this platform is widely used by youth groups.It is investigated by case method and combined with ethnographic research methods to study the representative characteristics of current social media of youth and the construction process,characteristics and social and cultural significance of youth intimacy.First of all,the construction process of intimate relationships is generally divided into four types:online love,offline understanding,online and offline integration.Through the analysis framework of social network theory,the whole construction process can analyze the new characteristics of three levels:social network,that is,social media becomes the"media of marriage"for young people to construct intimate relationships.Young individuals as nodes present two characteristics of"missing the field"and being more active to pursue intimate relationship with commonality.The intimate relationship that connects individuals also reflects the characteristics of new forms of interaction,emotional content recording and open discussion.Secondly,it analyzes its deep social and cultural significance from the perspective of communication and sociology.Social media has constructed a space for individuals to"view"and"performance",so that young people can find themselves in the space and reconstruct the intimate relationship,making the intimate relationship difficult and divisible and the media interdependent.Young people participate in emotional production and consumption in this process.On the one hand,social media can enable young people to achieve emotional pursuit and satisfaction,but on the other hand,the original intimacy has also undergone a certain degree of"deterioration",which requires young people to maintain sincerity,patience and respect for intimate relationships and not rely too much on the media under the influence of consumerism.Of course,the intimate relationship between the youth that presented in social media is only produced under the specific social and cultural background,and will also produce continuous innovation and create new social and cultural significance.