A Study Of Migrant Children’s Media Behavior From The View Of Social Integration

With the advancement of urbanization, migrant children followed their parents to enter the city society, and went through cultural and values conflict between urban and rural areas. Eventually, they became a group of stranger in the rural-urban fringe.During this period, the practical frustration may lead them to be self-abased and role confused. If they can not live through the crisis stage, it may influence their daily life and social integration.This paper elaborates on the social integrated dilemna of those migrant children in rural-urban fringe from the perspectives of social integration. From the points of culture, structure and psychology, it investigates the social integration crisis of migrant children. On this basis, combined with special features of the media use and media appeal of the migrant children, it explores the three dimensions of their media use behavior from the perspective of social integration, namely the cultivation effects of migrant children in media information cognition, social network extension of migrant children in media behaviour, identity construction of migrant children in media discourse.In the part of cultivation effects of migrant children in media information cognition, the paper concentrates on the analysis of media information cognitive features of the migrant children. In the study, it tries to comparatively analyze the cognitive characters in and between migrant children group, and analyzes the cultivation effects of media on migrant children and their influencing factors.In the part of social network extension, this paper focuses on how migrant children explore the human communication by the use of media under the development of social network construction.As for the identity construction of migrant children in media discourse, it mainly investigates words characteristic of mass media in the description of migrant children group and manners of the migrant children in constructing identity with the use of media. Among these, it specifically analyses the conflict between public opinion and self-identity of migrant children.Finally, on the basis of the above research conclusions, this paper tries to start with the behavioral intervention in these five aspects of the government, community, media, school, family, and provide some advice in order to construct a more friendly communication environment to promote migrant children’s social integration.