基于微信的虚拟学习社区社会互动研究

Research on Social Interaction of Virtual Learning Community Based on WeChat

学习型虚拟社区是一种通过网络方式实现知识共享的学习型组织。微信社群作为一种虚拟学习共同体已被广泛运用于各种类型的学习中,学习型虚拟社区在知识传播与共享、人际交流与互动、资源传递与分享方面发挥了不同于传统学习方式的重要作用,而社区中的社会互动是社区的核心特征。本文采用网络虚拟田野调查的方法,通过参与式观察、半结构化访谈,以某社科类专业微信学习社群为研究对象,收集了该虚拟社区近半年的聊天记录、各类共享资源、活动情况等一手资料。以拟剧论、符号互动论、社会交换理论等社会互动理论为理论基础,深入研究了微信学习型虚拟社区的构成要素、社会互动特征、社会互动模式,为微信学习型虚拟社区的可持续性发展提出建议。

Virtual Learning community is a kind of learning organization that realizes knowledge sharing through network. As a virtual learning community, WeChat community has been widely used in various types of learning. Virtual learning communities play an important role different from the traditional way of learning in knowledge dissemination and sharing, interpersonal communication and interaction, resource transfer and sharing, and social interaction in the community is the core characteristics of the community. This paper adopts the method of network virtual field investigation, taking a social science professional WeChat learning community as the research object, and collects the virtual community nearly half a year of chat records, all kinds of sharing resources, activities and other primary materials through participatory observation, semi-structured interview. Based on the theories of social interaction such as drama theory, symbol interaction theory and social exchange theory, this paper deeply studies the constitutive elements, social interaction characteristics and social interaction mode of WeChat learning virtual community, and puts forward some suggestions for the sustainable development of WeChat learning virtual community.