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Communication,Technology,And Urbanization

Posted on:2017-03-21Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X SongFull Text:PDF
GTID:2308330482499693Subject:Communication
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According to the empirical analysis of the cell-phone use of residents of Dawula village, the research has found that the cell-phone, as a symbol of modern lifestyle, which has been expected to bring about democracy, communication and public sphere, has played a limited role in the process of urbanization.First of all, the research has done a survey of the cell-phone consumption, the cell-phone habits, and the appeal of cell-phone use of residents of Dawula village with a questionnaire. The result has proven that the cell-phone use of residents of different ages has significant differences. Meanwhile, the ethnographic study has been done to explore the meaning of the cell-phone use, which is expressed by their own. The research has found that residents of all ages consider that the cell-phone is beneficial to being modernized and urbanized and they have been actively sought the meaning of the cell-phone in the process of modernization and urbanization.Then, the research has explored the actual effectiveness of urbanization on the cell-phone, which has been done from three aspects:communication patterns, lifestyles, and urban consciousness. The result has proven that the reconstitution of communication patterns of rural residents on the cell-phone is limited:the interactive contractile objects are still limited to blood relationship and geographic relationship, forms of communication still abide ’the Pattern of Difference Sequence’, although the cell-phone has brought the possibility of business relationship for rural residents, which has brought the chance of breaking through the traditional relationship. Meanwhile, the urban lifestyle hasn’t come true for the cell-phone use. The realization of the urban lifestyle has been limited for the deficiency of offline supporting service facilities. Rural residents have already become free labors of digital consumer market in the process of meeting the modern lifestyle, which has been brought by the cell-phone. In the aspect of urban consciousness, rural residents have changed a lot in the way of thinking because of the cell-phone. Consciousness of fairness, equality, resistance of discourse structure and efficiency has been wide spread.
Keywords/Search Tags:Rural residents, Cell-phone, Urbanization, Modernization
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