The Influence Of Digital Media On Interpersonal Communication

Under the background of globalization, informationalization and digitalization, digital media is penetrating into our lives. Almost everyone discovers that digital media technology and the virtual environment it creates have brought Thomas changes to economic, cultural and ideological aspects of the society, leading mankind into "digital existence". Therefore, interpersonal communication assumes distinct "digital" characteristics - virtuality, anonymity, deviation and multiple identities, etc. Such influence and changes are manifested not only in cyber society, but also in real society. The thesis starts from the interaction between technology and society, analyzes general theories of interpersonal communication and that in pre-digital media era -electronic media era, and takes Internet and mobile phone as examples. Based on the above, the thesis investigates new features and communication ways of digital media and furthers to reveal the internal mechanism to such changes. In the end, the thesis attempts to propose how to conduct and develop interpersonal communication based on digital media, i.e., how to recognize its particular contradictions and what kind of interpersonal communication principles to abide by.The thesis is divided into five chapters. Chapter One puts forward the topic, elaborating the era background and its theoretical and realistic meaning, The synthesis of previous researches is for the purpose of better elaboration and reference, and stand out the innovations of this thesis .Chapter Two lays the theoretical fundament. Since the thesis covers extensive disciplines, some concepts of which are not quite clear, it is necessary to define the concepts. Chapter Three expounds Internet's influence on interpersonal communication. New features and ways of cyber communication are of vital importance to the influence of digital media on interpersonal communication. And this chapter discloses three levels of the influence: mode of production, mode of existence and emotions, which are integrate and succeed one by one. Chapter Four expounds the influence of mobile phone, which boasts of revolutionary significance, on interpersonal communication. The thesis elaborates form the aspect of interpersonal communication in family and in general sense.