Research On Emotional Factors In Online Game Socialization From The Perspective Of Interactive Ritual Chain Theory

The rapid development of science and technology has brought great changes to people’s life and entertainment,thinking and cognition,social way and all aspects of society as a whole,and with the mature use of Internet technology in people’s daily life,on the one hand,it has driven the change of media communication form,and on the other hand,people’s social form has also diversified with the change of communication form.Among them,online game,as a new media form,builds a special online interpersonal interaction space for people through music,picture,plot and gameplay,supplemented by montage technique.For this new social space,it is necessary for us to study and explore online games from various perspectives,and reveal how people realize interpersonal interaction and the construction of social relationship and identity in the new communication context.Using a combination of participant observation,in-depth interviews,and the author’s personal participation experience,this paper takes the online game Fantasy Westward Journey as the research object,takes Randall Collins’ interactive ritual chain theory as the practical basis,dismantles the game element symbols contained in the game space,followed by analyzing the feasibility of interactive rituals in virtual space from the constituent elements and initiation conditions of interactive rituals,and points out that Emotional energy is the main motive that influences individuals to initiate interaction in virtual space,and at the same time,it is found that emotional energy is manipulated by capital with the help of such entertainment social platform as "Fantasy Westward Journey",which uses entertainment to cover up the ritual of capital’s exploitation of players’ value,and if this goes on,it will endanger the physical and mental health of individual players,and finally,the author believes that emotional energy is an important energy resource,which brings physical and mental pleasure to players and Rich life experience,but also for the game party to bring stable commercial interests,but it should be noted that emotional energy is a double-edged sword,both players and capital parties,the reasonable use of this resource,in order to do the healthy development of the individual or game industry.