The Influence Of New Media On College Students’ Thoughts And Actions

With the globalization of digital communication technology and internet information technology, new media technology, which is mainly represented by internet and smartphones, is developing quickly. College students has been an important part of the users of new media technology. New media technology has more and more important effect on college students’ thoughts and behaviors. The new characteristics of new media take many positive effects on college students. However, new media is a double-edged sword and it also brings many negative effects on college students. It is significant for college students’ development that college students should be directed to use new media correctly.Based on current situation of new media’s usage in college students, this article takes college students as main research object and summarizes the new media’s positive and negative effects on college students. The key point is researching and analyzing the reasons of new media’s negative effect on college students and putting forwarding some strategies to guide college students to use new media correctly. This article mainly includes the following five chapters :The first chapter is an introduction. First, this part illustrates the background, research objectives and research significance of the subject. Then this chapter summarizes previous relevant studies of new media and indicates the research methods of this article. Finally, this thesis states the innovative points.Firstly, the second chapter defines the concept of new media, briefly introduces the development of new media both at home and abroad and states the main forms of new media. Then this part summarizes the main characteristics of new media, which include popularity, virtuality in space and time, interaction of information, immediacy of transmission, convenience of usage, visualization with graphs and words and individuality in service.The third and fourth chapters are two key parts. According to the current situation of college students to use the new media, the third part analyses the positive and negative effects of new media on college students. The positive effects is that using new media can expand the channel of the college students’ learning, meet college students’ psychological demand, cultivate students’ consciousness of democracy, Change the way of communication and thinking. The negative effects is that using new media may strike students’ moral values, decrease their sociability, confuse student’s role behaviors and make them think simply and playfully. Then the thesis gives the reasons of negative effects, which include the influence from new media circumstance and social circumstance, the restriction of education in schools and some aspects from students themselves.The fourth chapter offers suggestions about how to use new media correctly. The governments should strengthen macro-control of new media. Mass medias should give college students instruction to use new media. Schools and families should supervise students and students should control themselves strictly.The fifth chapter summarizes the inadequacies and enlightenment of this article.