3G Mobile Phones And Interpersonal Communication

In the history of interpersonal communication, every evolution of media has brought a revolutionary change in the communication field. Primarily, mobile phones were only the communication tools among people, gradually they entered the crossing fields of interpersonal communication and mass communication following the advancements of their functions. The third generation mobile phones(3G mobile phones) not only include the basic communication functions of traditional phones, but also have the additional functions of internet, taking the advantages of multimedia, high speed, personalization, network and carry-on as a whole. 3G mobile phones have eliminated the separation of traditional mobile phones'networks and internet, and the non-moving disadvantage of computer communication. The properties of vedio call and combinations of double network make 3G mobile phones be the terminal extension of network media, and the highest stage of network communication. With 3G mobile phones, the carry-on interactive media, we have ended the separation of senses and come to the interpersonal communication with a sensory integration.This research is carried out following the model of Paul Levinson. Chapter 1 is an overview of the 3G mobile phones'situation in communication from the perspective of media, and explains the background of 3G technology and the revolutions accompanying the application to media. In Chapter 2, we entered the ontology level of 3G mobile phones and interpersonal communication. By analyzing 3G mobile phones'characteristics and models, we researched the differences between 3G mobile phones and traditional interpersonal communication media, and found that 3G mobile phones are an integration of authenticity, exclusion, compensatory, compulsive, humanity and concordance in the interpersonal communication process. In addition, we explored the communicating model of vedio calls and mobile internet. In Chapter 3, we analyzed the potential influence of 3G mobile phones on interpersonal communication, and explored the communication trend of 3G mobile phones, explained the systematic meaning and ideology expressed behind 3G mobile phones, and came to the conclusion that 3G mobile phones have constructed a new meaning space. 3G mobile phones have achieved the remodeling of space-time, contacting view, field view, situation view and public-private view. 3G mobile phones are a media in which space fades away following time, both deviation and fusion of communication breadth and depth, the integration of communication content and situation, the hybrid of present and absent of both sides, the fusion of private and public sectors. With an interpersonal way, 3G mobile phones indicate a tendency of tribalization and have realized the essential recurrence of interpersonal communication. Chapter 4 is about introspection and conclusion, interpreting the issues of binging and ritualization of 3G mobile phones.Finally, we come to the conclusion that 3G mobile phones present an interpersonal communication state similar to'face to face', in other words, it means an imitative'face to face'communication status. And 3G mobile phones indicate the tribe evolvement trend and will be the interpersonal recurrence of'You and Me'. To some extent, 3G mobile phones have changed the primary situation of interpersonal communication, and achieved the natural status of'face to face'interpersonal communication maximumly. 3G mobile phones are the most essential return of interpersonal communication, and will lead us to a new era of interpersonal communication.