Title :
Cyber communication of adolescent
Author :
Shaohua Huang ; Mengyao Yuan
Author_Institution :
Ningbo Inst. of Technol., Zhejiang Univ., Ningbo, China
Abstract :
This paper conducts a quantitative analysis about cyber communication based on the data collected by questionnaires got from the Adolescent in Zhejiang, Hunan and Gansu. It finds that the internet has become a new field of daily communication, cyber communication will not only help adolescent to keep up with existing relations, but also expand their relative network. The dominant impetus of adolescent´ cyber communication is pursuing the joy of interaction itself and the internet is changing the rules of adolescent´ communication considerably. To many young netizens, the internet is a medium of interaction, as well as a medium for self presentation, cyber communication is applicable in making adolescent´ self presentation more no-limits, polybasic and flexible. Adolescent exchange their mutual concerns through cyber communication, relaying their experiences and feelings; thus the communication is a process of sharing these concerns.
Keywords :
Internet; social aspects of automation; Internet; adolescent; cyber communication; self presentation; Communities; Electronic mail; Face; Gallium nitride; Games; Internet; Social network services;
Conference_Titel :
Web Society (SWS), 2010 IEEE 2nd Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6356-5
DOI :
10.1109/SWS.2010.5607486