Cyber Cupid:A Study on the Social Media Usage and Relationship Representation in Long-distance Romance
With the acceleration of space flow and the iteration of media technology,long-distance relationship is becoming more and more prevailing among young people.The social media usage in long-distance relationship acts as the cyber cupid,helping to maintain the emotional communication and the romantic relationship.In the media experience dimension,these couples jointly create a cross-media,cross-time,and ritual meaning space through the multiple use of social media.In the dimension of emotional participation,they can give certain symbolic meaning to the"glitches"that occur when social media reproduce reality,resulting in misinterpretation of information symbols and social fatigue caused by repeated scenes,which may lead to disputes and even disconnection in intimate relationships,and in terms of subjective perception,the importance of"body"in romantic relationship is fundamentally different from that of other interpersonal relationships,resulting in the fact that the social presence constructed by media always has defects in the body level and cannot bring exactly the same subject perception.The consideration of"body"also extends the investigation of this article to a deeper theoretical space,reflecting the unique value of long-distance love emotional communication for communication research.