| In the modernization of China, a group of children whose parents work in cities are left behind in the rural areas. Lack of family, education, security, their development is worried. Children grow up by interaction, so communication should care about this. And TV is the media which they contact most frequently.The empirical data was collected from Yanzihe Town in Jinzhai County. Anhui Province has always been one of China’s labor-export provinces. Jinzhai County is a main labor-export county of Anhui. From the start of the1990s, part of young men of Yanzihe began to work outside the home. Sometimes, more than80%young men were working away from home. The left-behind children had become increasingly prominent. TV is the main mass media that a local left-behind child is exposed to, and Yanzihe Town is an excellent area to study the relationship between television and children.For the left-behind children, the need for media is communication, exchanges. They practically do not use media for other purposes. Their problems are in daily life. This article gave up the simple media effect research method, and adopted the qualitative research methods, quantitative research as support at the same time, to discuss specific form of communication of left-behind children and the implicit reasons, especially the role of television in left-behind children’s socialization.In this study, the social status quo provides the left-behind children with a cultural structure and decoding framework, and therefore they have a different understanding of television. In the social and cultural fields, interpersonal is looked as a way of people for the construction of meaning, cultural classification, the reproduction of social relations, from the point of interpersonal, this article discusses the social status quo of the left-behind children from such dimensions:the family, peer group, the stranger, the experience.It was found that left-behind children are initiative TV audiences. With a conscious effort to watch TV, they formed a lot of positive self-identity in the process of using the TV. They are able to use television to soothe the loneliness, to acquire knowledge consciously. TV has played an active role in interpersonal relationship construction and life values shaping of the left-behind children. For example, finding fun in the daily life, social interaction, self-comfort and companionship, widening the range of knowledge, inspirational, role models to look for life on television, values shaping, etc.At the same time, the study also find that left-behind children’s interpersonal communication, hands-on experience and mass communication, are showing the form of a flow which is a mutual process of construction. The one hand, the spread of television affects left-behind children in interpersonal communication, on the other hand interpersonal communication and experience help left-behind children find their unique "consultation" way with TV programs and Mass Communication. The left-behind children with their unique type of interpretation involve in or even in self-defensing dialogue with mass Communication. They will echo television programs into their own lives, while reading Television echo in their own lives.We do not have to avoid the adverse effects of TV, but that’s just a matter of appearance. The reasons behind is the lack of effective guidance on the TV watching of the left-behind children.As the immediate solutions to improve the existing conditions of the children are not sought, we should fully mobilize the energy of TV to help the left-behind children in socialization, and circumvent the adverse effects effectively. There seems an urgent need that parents and teachers should give left-behind children guidance on TV watching, as well as the organizations give social supports.So and so only, in the foreseeable future, when teachers, parents and the left-behind children themselves have to face the Internet and other new media tide, they will not feel panic-stricken, and be able to deal with them calmly. |
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