How relationship constructs in virtual world

Reflection:

Relationship construct changes in different era, in the past people can only build relationship by face-to-face or mail, till middle age, they learn how to use telegraph and telephone to deliver message to others. Then now, people build relationship on internet, how is this happening? Nearly all of the example above are similar, just a formal change. “Interaction” and “Relation” are the key point within them. Internet provide connection to interpersonal networks. Even a variety of interpersonal clues, such as facial expressions, sounds, contacts, actions and so on because of the network transmission intermediary has weakened, however, in daily life has produced more and more emotional connection because of the internet - People seem to have been accustomed to the Internet to receive or send non-work-oriented message, look forward to get friends greetings and comfort on their phone; and now "online friends" is already a very common and widely familiar terms, even if they never met, they can still generous to share the mood or vent emotions, and even by it to develop romance within it.

In the video, I used Tinder as an example to explain how it works to construct relationship on internet. I downloaded it and used it for a while, and I found out how it works greatly through “Interaction” and “Relation”. In the “Interaction” part, I use David Popenoe’s book – Sociology (1971) to explain “Community” and allude the internet community. Within it to seek out the “One on one, One to multi and Multi to multi” strategy of interpersonal communication and use Tinder as an example to explain how these work. Ernst Cassirer once said “Humans are symbolic creatures”, Tinder user through text and speech to express their point of view and use them to impress others. In reality, the non-linguistic symbols such as smile, hug, nodding and other body language are replaced by these internet symbol. In the “Relation” part, I use Tinder strategy of swiping to explain how it works. On Tinder you can swipe whatever person to “like” them, when they “like” you back, you can start conversation with them, according to Altman and Taylor’s book - Social Penetration (1973), this is the first step of “Seeking”, user through this step to find who they want to build relationship with. After they like each other, users start their conversation, and this is “Tentative emotional communication”, they try to find common view of point to know each other. In a certain period, users step into the third phase of “Emotional Communication”, their interest begin overlap and fusion. In the final phase “Stable communication”, they develop their emotion and share their mood and emotion, may go even further to develop romance.

I draw some simple catalog to explain how all these works in an easier way for audience to understand. Because I did not face reveal in the video, so I decide to use some interesting comic character from a Hong Kong artist – Knight Lai, as my avatar of speaker, is to make my video more interesting to watch. Another reason is I do not think speaking in front of the camera will be interesting, and it is more difficult to edit.There are a few challenge I faced in this exercise, I found out that creating a video is not an easy work to do, there are so many variable element while you filming, editing and even voice covering. I have learnt how to scholar proper material to extend and develop my words. So far, this is a good experience for me, I believe that these will help me in the future.

Reference: same in the video

#ALC203 #relationship #Tinder #virtualworld