Mobile Phone Practice And Social Interaction Of Takeaway Riders

In this paper,a takeout rider communication platform for the field point,with its from all over the country,different platforms and different types of takeaway rider as the research object,USES the network ethnographic research methods,attempt from the perspective of relationship dimension to interpret the present new media context of take-out rider work practices and other new media culture phenomenon.The takeaway rider’s daily practice revolves around mobile phones--building a kind of or "fluid social connection" in the process.So,who are these fluid social relationships formed with?What is it like?How to understand such fluid social relations?What impact does it have on takeaway riders,new urban immigrants?How to understand this new social relationship?In addition,the establishment of mobile social relations of this group also faces a new communication situation:Mobile Internet makes more individual and small circle of information expression and communication,take-away rider by joining such as the national group of this kind of professional community to enlargement of the rider social network,which under the field of urban high heterogeneity,reduce the proportion of interpersonal communication in the field of work and life imbalance,in order to supplement reality exchanges to increase the selectivity of interpersonal category.At the same time,their daily life is also extended to the network space through text expression and static or dynamic presentation of images,which may become another aspect worth paying attention to when we investigate the social relations of urban new immigrants.Takeaway riders,as a representative group of new immigrants,have established a"mobile social relationship" with the city through mobile phone practice and daily life.This relationship is temporary,instantaneous and fluid,which is an important change for the current urban new immigrants to establish new social relations.In this process,mobile phones and other new media also played an extremely important role.