The Empirical Research On The Wechat Contact By The Senior Citizens With The Geriatric Sociology Theory

According to international standards,“ the aging society ” means the proportion of people over 60 years of age in a country is over 10%,or the proportion of the population over 65 is over 7%.If the population over 65 is over the age of 14%,we call it “the aging country”.Since China entered the aging society in 2000,in this short period of less than 20 years,the elderly population continues to show prominent characteristics such as large scale,rapid growth and obvious trend of aging.Aging not only leads to population problems,but also is involved introspects of politics,economy,culture and social life.Another background that cannot be ignored is the intergenerational "digital divide" that prevails in today's digital society.The development of the Internet in China has made a leap forward during the past ten years.New media technologies,such as "Weibo,Wechat,App",Big Data,Cloud Computing,have brought profound changes in production mode,social development and living habits.However,the middle-aged and elderly groups are at a disadvantage in terms of network penetration and the use of social media.When people transit from one life stage to another,both physically and psychologically,they usually feel a sense of weightlessness.Moreover,the senior citizens,a special group suffered decline both in physical health and psychological satisfaction,are at a loss when facing with the information society which is developing very rapidly.The idea of “Active Aging” holds that the elderly population is the precious wealth of the society and the resources for the social and economic development.The arrival of the aging society means the maturity and progress of the human society,and the whole society should respect and care for the elderly.However,throughout our academic fields,the research on the elderly 's contract of network and high technology is insufficient,in the experimental research of domestic scholars around WeChat,WeChat Moments and other new media,the object mostly focused on the young and middle-aged netizens.References to the elderly and the use of the Internet and the media are scattered in non-academic journals on geriatric education and health care.The quantitative and empirical research on the use of WeChat and the self-presentation of social platform are rare.Based on this,the main contents of this paper are as follows:First,the introduction part summarizes the research background,topic significance,literature review,theoretical basis and research methods.Secondly,we investigated the cognition and use situation of We Chat in the elderly by questionnaires(322 valid questionnaires were collected and analyzed).The subjects were divided into using and not using WeChat to analyze their cognitive characteristics and behavioral motivation.The so-called WeChat contact is divided into three levels: cognition,behavior and attitude.The study also selected 20 audiences from loyal users to continue the next phase of content analysis and interview supplemental research according to the degree of conformity with the sample criteria.Besides,for the selected 20 elderly WeChat users,keeping trick of their one-year(2016.10-2017.10)WeChat circle of friends information.Based on the analysis of the cognition,habit and tendency of information dissemination,this paper summarizes the characteristics and common laws of the use of WeChat and spreading ecology of WeChat circle of friends,and analyzes the self-presentation and communication of the elderly group with the WeChat circle of friends.The virtual image of the aged social platform is compared with the real identity role in order to enrich the preliminary subject investigation.Finally,through interviews with themselves,family,peers and combined with the above research results,this paper summed up the overall characteristics of the elderly group WeChat contaction.In the end,combined with the research,the conceptual knowledge of the aged in psychology,ageing ethics and sociology,this paper put forward reasonable advice for optimizing the contact behavior of new media in the elderly from the three aspects: reconstruction of the role for the elderly in their own media literacy and healthy psychology,the reconstruction of harmonious intergenerational relationships of family and community and the reconstruction of the media and social atmosphere,which are in order to promote the social participation and role reconstruction of the senior group.