When certain groups of people are low in almost all social stratification systems, the situation of the whole society will be very dangerous. The social stratification system here includes class, gender, race, etc.
Take black Americans as an example. Generally speaking, black Americans are in a lower position in society in terms of class and race, forming a parallel relationship. This is very dangerous and has led to a series of problems in the United States. .
The imbalance of online and offline identities we mentioned earlier is more like a “parametric society”.
In other words, young people may feel frustrated and suppressed in the real society. In cyberspace, he has two possibilities. One is to continue to maintain a lower status; the other is to be in the online world. I found a point of venting and found my own emotional belonging and social status.
So we can actually make a coordinate system, the vertical axis represents the status of the online society, and the horizontal axis represents the status of the offline society, thus forming four quadrants. We will find that when both online and offline status are at a low level, society is in the most dangerous area, which is what we call a state of parallel parameters. But in the other three regions, the two can balance each other to a certain extent.
How to change the parameter parallel society?
One feasible way is to focus on the promotion of certain people’s online status and improve their online life quality. Chinese society already has a series of external support conditions such as the industrial foundation, sub-cultural ecology, consumption habits and consumer psychology to achieve this state. The offline status of young people is often lower, but the online world provides them with a buffer zone.
For the future of Internet governance, what needs to be considered is exactly how to “pull” people in the most dangerous quadrant and transfer them to other quadrants.
Can Internet companies play his role here? I think it is a very good topic.
Tengyun: Low media literacy and the entire society’s overall sense of oppression of young people will create some bad phenomena on the Internet. The world is facing the problems of online violence and Internet spouts. How do you understand these issues?
Liu Neng: Chinese society lacks media literacy education, and lacks the concept of “political correctness” or “cultural correctness”, and Chinese culture has a certain compulsive and oppressive nature for individuals ——China’s mainstream culture is a big culture and a big tradition, which has higher requirements for the integration of individual behaviors, which leads to China’s interconnection.com/s/cKhf5W50gNgGAtNgeZIhxg” target=”_blank” rel=”nofollow” style=”text-decoration: none;”>Tengyun (ID: tenyun700)< /a>, Interviewee: Liu Neng (Professor, Department of Sociology, Peking University)