Discrimination Ability Of Rural Left-behind Residents To Disinformation In WeChat

With the rapid popularization of the Internet in rural areas,more and more rural residents have become Internet users.They exchange views and express opinions on the Internet.In rural areas,with the rapid development of social media,the communication mode based on face-to-face and telephone communication has gradually changed to online communication mediated by social media.Based on the huge impact of the Internet on rural areas,the thesis focuses on a village in the west of Jinan,Using the ecological system theory of Bronfenbrenner and Charles H.Zastrow,through the research methods of semi-structured interview and field investigation,to study the discrimination ability of rural left-behind villagers to disinformation in WeChat under the influence of various factors,to summarize the impact of disinformation according to the interview content,and to explore solutions on this basis.The study found that WeChat plays an irreplaceable role in the left-behind villagers in M village.WeChat is the main tool for the left-behind villagers to communicate with their relatives and friends.It is an important channel for the left-behind villagers to obtain external information.It has become a tool for the left-behind villagers to participate in rural political life and maintain social relations.With the wide use of WeChat in the left-behind villagers,the left-behind villagers have a voice platform.When their personal rights and interests are violated,WeChat plays a role in amplifying public opinion and prompting relevant departments and personnel to make changes.At the same time,the neighborhood disputes in rural life have also been transferred from offline to online with the use of WeChat,and the contradictions between villagers are known by more people.It is the irreplaceable role of WeChat that makes disinformation emerge endlessly at the top of WeChat.There are specific reasons for the breeding and dissemination of disinformation in M village.The transformation of rural society has increased the sense of environmental insecurity and the dissatisfaction of left-behind residents.The wide use of smart phones has provided left-behind residents with new tools to relieve their depression and receive information,which have become an important driving force for the breeding and spread of disinformation in rural areas.In addition,due to the limited cultural level of rural left-behind residents,they often can not identify the false elements in WeChat information,and they inadvertently become the disseminators of disinformation.The limited social circle of the left-behind villagers makes them have a trust in WeChat friends brought by familiarity.Rationality is replaced by sensibility,so that they can not effectively identify disinformation.At present,the government’s neglect of the proliferation of disinformation in rural areas makes the spread of disinformation in rural areas more unscrupulous and unimpeded.The Internet life of the left-behind villagers is in a state of disorder.Facing the disinformation in WeChat,the left-behind villagers have different attitudes.Some people ignore these disinformation and think that these disinformation have nothing to do with their production and life and do not need attention.Some people are keen to forward all kinds of disinformation.They use WeChat as a tool for communication.Communication is primary and content is secondary.There are also some people who doubt all kinds of information in WeChat,but this doubt is only limited to the surface,subject to the retrieval consciousness and retrieval ability,and few people search and verify the information.The discrimination ability of left behind villagers to disinformation is affected by their own factors and external factors.From the perspective of individual factors,the awareness of caution,the richness of relevant knowledge,sense of responsibility and Internet use ability will affect the discrimination ability and discrimination behavior of left-behind villagers.The perceptual and fear factors in disinformation directly affect the discrimination ability of left-behind villagers.From the perspective of external environmental factors,strong relationships including relatives and friends,weak relationships including community neighbors and network environmental factors will affect the discrimination ability of left-behind villagers.The impact of disinformation on the left-behind villagers has two sides.On the one hand,it meets the personalized information needs of the left-behind villagers,becomes a window for the left-behind villagers to see the social hot spots and keep up with the social rhythm,and alleviates the social loneliness caused by being alone for a long time.On the other hand,disinformation intensifies the panic of the left-behind villagers and makes people fear their environment.At the same time,trusting disinformation is easy to cause property losses.In the process of communication,due to the existence of the digital divide,the conflict between the left-behind villagers and their children is exacerbated,making the left-behind villagers become people who are separated from their children’s social platform.At the same time,with the help of WeChat platform,disinformation spreads rapidly,covering a wider range of people,aggravating group polarization and easy to form group violence between the majority and the minority.Finally,based on the above research,this thesis tentatively puts forward some solutions.For the spread of disinformation among left-behind villagers,we should give full play to the power of many parties.As children,we should devote ourselves to digital feedback,understand the behavior of our parents,be patient and be a good "teacher" for our parents.As the leading force of rural governance,the grass-roots government should bear its own responsibility,refute the rumors of disinformation in time,and do the corresponding publicity and popularization work.Platforms that provide convenience for the dissemination of disinformation should also bear their due social responsibilities,do a good job in checking and auditing,close the accounts that spread disinformation in time,and create a clearer cyberspace.