Explosive Observation And Analysis On Impact Of Network Communication To Self-recognition

"Communication" and "Media" is a pair of concepts of great significance to the history of human development. Along with the self-exploration and discovery, people have never stopped the research of these two issues.Long before the communication began to take shape in modern times, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, with a macro point of view, and the new world view of the historical materialism, studied the phenomenon of material and spiritual communication between different people, and in particular, illustrated the significance of spiritual communication. He believed people possess their own personality by communication with outside world via all manners of sensorial organs assembled by brain. People established all kinds of relationships, and then fostered the formation of society, where after, people communicated with others, discovered, adjusted and recognized themselves time after time. In addition, along with the variety and complexity of communication, the sensation turns out to be more sensible than before, through constant conscious initiative, and it is due to the gradually enriched communication that we have the ear for rhythm and music, eye for form and beauty——our auditory and visual sensation no longer functions merely due to requirement of surviving. The history of formation and development of brain and sensation makes up a history of spiritual communication of human kind.Since the late 20th century, while the development and popularization of internet, the communication of human have changed subtly. Network with unique method and rich content, provide a brand new environment of recognizing and grasping things, which means reality is transformed digitally into the virtual existence; the unrealizable existence is also transformed digitally into virtual existence, and a new space comes into being—virtual space. Existence in virtual space changes the traditional human communication manner timely and spatially. People break loose from the busy and duplicate living, sitting in front of the computer, establishing links through a kind of fiber optic cable, whose abundance fosters the formation of virtual space. This is a new social life, among which, people abandon the identities in real life, and do not bother about name, face, color and even gender. In this world, everyone is a almighty god, creating a self according to his own ideal, with which he can indulge into colorful virtual communication. Virtual space and real space coexist. People could discover and identify themselves via communication in virtual society and real society. Virtual society, along with real society, plays a role in one's growth.Thus, people plunge into new fields, starting research about growth mechanism of human under new media circumstances, with Mark Poster as one of the representatives. Poster inherited the essence of Marxism and Post-structuralism, critically accepted communication theory of Marx, and viewed the media as a kind of material, then put forward "information method" as the nucleus of his "2nd Media Era". Facing extremely controversial issues in virtual world:whether virtual identity in network communication would collide with identity in real life and thus leads to self-splitting, Mark Poster, from his theory system and positive perspective, illustrated with lots of reasoning, that virtual identity developed from virtual communication balanced the constraints of identity in modern society, activated a bunch roles for representation and illustration, and gave people suffering fatigue and dullness of modern life a release and solace. He believes, network communication reveals an outlook for understanding oneself, and constitution of self becomes a initiative planning.Considering the differences between our society and the counterpart Poster studied in terms of development and times, this research tries to put network communication under current society of China, with teenagers as subject, and expects to explore the self-recognition issue. This research collects and analyzes relative results on network communication and self-recognition, and defines the network communication and self-recognition in an operative way. Network communication takes several ways, such as internet relay chat, bbs, blog, online game, and each one of them, could be considered as network communication only if there were emotion involved. Self-recognition is the appreciation of oneself, including all parts of sensation, such as physiological self, social self, and psychological self. With follow-up observation and intense interview of online game player, board master of BBS, user of Xiaonei network, this research discovers, teenager users are more mature in terms of network self-recognition under the popularization and development of network of China.It is could be conclude as:first, virtual space is an extension of reality, and norms in real-life society are also binding in network society; second, network communication overcomes the difficulties in real-life, and facilitates the self growth; third, there is a balance system in one's virtual communication and real-life communication, which means, when someone fails to recognize himself online, he would seek recognition in real-life, and vice versa; fourth, role play in network favors socialization of one's growth, in terms of equipping initiative to him.