From Place To Relationship:A Study On The Online Core Networks Of Urban Residents In Internet

In the development of urban communities,Western urban sociologists have a negative view of the trend of community interpersonal relationships.They believe that the development of the city will bring the community interpersonal indifference.China is rapidly experiencing the process of urbanization,with unit system disintegrating,social mobility and residential commercialization,the interpersonal relationships of residents are increasingly being fragmented.Community researchers are hoping to reshape community relationships through the Internet,but Internet researchers have found that the impact of Internet use on relationships is complex.The current Internet researcher's research on interpersonal relationships is limited to specific Internet tools,specific people and specific online communities.There are few empirical study on the impact of Internet on community interpersonal relationship with the perspective of community.Therefore,this article hopes to jump out of the specific population,tools and field constraints,from a broader crowd framework and the Internet environment to examine the impact of the Internet on traditional community relationships.Secondly,the current researches about interpersonal relationships and internet are limited to the Internet environment,only to explore the individual factors,the Internet factors,but did not take into account of the community factors.The composition of the online network of residents is not only the relationship between the traditional community interpersonal relationships,but also the Internet virtual interpersonal relationships.Both of them constitute the individual interpersonal relationships.We believe that only put the online relationships,offline relationships and online encironment,offline environment together,then we can be closer to the nature of the changes in interpersonal relationships.Therefore,this paper uses the data of the online core discussion network of the Siming District residents in Xiamen City in 2016,and uses the method of descriptive analysis and multiple linear regression to explore how the community factors and internet factors impact the residents' online core networks,such as the core network size,geographical distribution and relationship distribution.The results show that the online core network of the residents is an extension of the offline relationships.It does not be instead by the virtual relationships.The online core network of the residents under the Internet age shows a trend of polarization.Marriage has a contraction effect on the geographical distribution of the online core networks of residents,can promote people to discuss important issues with the nearby people.High sense of community,low community environmental identity and other community factors have a contraction function on the core network regional distribution of the residents,but has little effect on the relationship distribution of residents.The tool type use of Internet can enhance the link between residents and online friends,and can enlarge their online core network size,as well as have a diffusion impact on its geographical distribution.The recreational type use of internet can make people be farther from their intimate relationships and be closer to their friends.The online community participation can significantly enhance the intimate relationship between the residents and the neighborhood and promote the residents to discuss important issues with the people who are geographically closer.Social capital of online friends can promote residents to discuss important issues with online friends,and expand the online core network of residents.The study found that marriage,community ownership,environmental interest perception,and online community participation can mostly enhance the intimate contacts between residents and people who are geographically closer.Therefore,in the background of the Chinese community construction,this paper puts forward three ideas to help cultivating community relations,such as solving the single person's marriage problems,building the online community platform and promoting the environmental protection activities.