Research On Social Relations In WeChat

The report of 2015 We Chat data shows that by the first quarter of this year, the users of We Chat in mainland China have been covered more than 90%. In other words, nearly half the population in our country talk with friends, get advice and share experience through We Chat. The small software program is beyond the limitations of time and space, becoming the most import social media in digital age. However, as Marshall Mc Luhan says "Media is message" the fable media in some features of "invisible" to transform us human itself. We Chat, not only created to construct technology to relationship, but also design its layers of nested product,and rewrite the illustrations of social relationships in the new media era.In the introduction of this paper, I reviews the development of We Chat and introduce the framework of social relations. Then the author determines the We Chat media as the main research direction of social relations.The second chapter is the critical part of social interaction theory. The author combed the basic idea of social communication in Mc Luhan,Jurgen Habermas, Mead, and Karl Marx Marxism.Mc Luhan focuses on the interactionof people and media, Habermas and Mead respectively from the aspect of language and symbol sparsing.They stress the social interaction in absolute subjectivity role of individual self-consciousness and group identity. Marx build extensive theoretical framework of the social interaction theory.He first put social relations in the resultant force of demand and productivity.At the same time, Marx creatively put forward the essence of social intercourse to unite connotation of personal and social, In the third and forth chapter, depends on the specific carrier, the author analyzes differences between network social relations and traditional relationships. I also put forward three real characteristics of spontaneity,entertaining, and counted in relationships in digital age.Finally, the author, which is based on Marx’s theory of social interaction, focus on the technical background of comprehensive contact relationships, analysis by how technology brings people an opportunity to pursue more comprehensive social relationship.The author believes that the issue of social relations began in the media, but not constrained by the media, with the thrust of technology, we will usher a broader earth.