A Study On Interpersonal Communication And Social Impacts From Online Game Environment

With the continuous development and popularization of the Internet, the network not onlybeganto exert a significant social impact on the political, economic and cultural fields, but also the inherentuncertainties and the diversified characteristics of which bring the huge impact to penetrate graduallyto every corner of human society, and it becomes an indispensable part in people's daily life. Thenetwork has changed a simple information technology platform for social interaction into animportant human tools and instruments. With the help of network, people could do the transmissionof information, communication and emotional exchange of ideas not subject to external conditionssuch as geography, education, status and so on. Because of Network, the form of human interactionentered into a new era, it changed profoundlythe relationship between people and people, people andsociety, and took shape many colorful virtual community such as blog, forum, qq space, chatrooms ,online games and others.Among them, the online games made non face to face contact whichcalled the "Absence of Body Contacts " as an universal social phenomenon.Online games combined all kinds of simulation technique such as sound and light,three dimensional, motion, for people to build a more virtual paradise, people grow up in the gamewhich be filled of surprises, fantasy, excitement and fun ,so each other lingers in the virtual realm.With the increasing number of participants, online games continues to show the important role invarious network medias. Through the online game it shapes a brand new interactive model ofinterpersonal communication, this particular culture of New Aspect has taken a significant effect onpeople's daily contacts, and gradually caused the concern of social public. The online games bringpeople the relaxes in spiritual. However, the negative effects be caused by the game addiction andmoral crisis of interpersonal communication in online games make people always mixed, then how torecognize and understand the new communication modes is particularly necessary and urgent in theenvironment of online game.So starting from this issue, this studytakes the current popular role playing game as the researchbackground of interpersonal networks, put to use concretelymanyresearch methods such as literaturestudy, combined with questionnaires, participant observation and comparative. To make analysis andrevelation in depth, for why people participate in online games Interpersonal Communication? What this features presented by true face of the communication in the game is? What social impact willbring people in real life?And so on, and reached the following major conclusions:1.In online games, the main motivations which people involved in interpersonal communicationare: Achievement and Satisfaction; Social Interaction; Power and Leadership; Escape and vent;Gaming Experience and Exploration; Entertainment.2. The characteristics of interpersonal communication in online games have: Universality andContingency between communicating objects; Stealthiness and Equality between communicationbodies; Virtual Reality and Immersion between communication environments; Electronization andIntegration between communication means; Recreation and Entertainment between communicationstyles and so on.3. The social impacts of online games has: 1.Positive Effects: to meet the spiritual needs ofindividuals, to take exercise the actual interpersonal skills of individual, to conducive to intellectualdevelopments and thought and politics educations of individuals; 2. Negative Effects: to escape fromthe reality of life, to lead to self cognitive disorders, to lose real social norms, to raise ethical andmoral crisis.