Title :
Analysis of psychological motive of college students in respect of collective revelry via network
Author :
Liu Huiying ; Yang Yan
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Educ., Zhengzhou Univ., Zhengzhou, China
Abstract :
Collective revelry via network is a social phenomenon unique to Internet. The author conducted a questionnaire survey and interview on 256 students participating collective revelry via network, with results indicating that the novelty-seeking, rebellion, irresponsibility, popular culture, entertainment and the collective subconscious are the main psychological motives for contemporary college students to join in the collective revelry via network.
Keywords :
Internet; psychology; social aspects of automation; social sciences computing; Internet; collective revelry; collective subconscious; college students; entertainment; irresponsibility; novelty-seeking; popular culture; psychological motive analysis; rebellion; social phenomenon; Cities and towns; Educational institutions; Internet; Media; Presses; Psychology; collective revelry via network; college students; psychological motive;
Conference_Titel :
Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence Conference (ITAIC), 2011 6th IEEE Joint International
Conference_Location :
Chongqing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8622-9
DOI :
10.1109/ITAIC.2011.6030313
