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Has Wechat Become Our Way of Life
作者：王莎瑷
来源：《山东青年》2016年第06期
Abstract： Amusing Ourselves to Death has demonstrated howTV has changed people’s life. This paper mainly demonstrates some analysis and reflections from the perspective of a newly
emerged multimodality media——WeChat.It is depicted how Wechat has exerted the profound effects on man’s way of life， thought and cognitivecapacity， way of communication， reading habit， etc..
Key words：Wechat； Media；Amusing Ourselves to Death 1. Introduction
In Amusing Ourselves to Death， Postman regards television’s entertainment value as a present-day “soma”， by means of which the citizens’ rights are exchanged for consumers’ entertainment. Now we have indeed come to the “Screen time” since we may spend hours in front of computer， mobile phone and video monitor.The essential premise of the book， which Postman extends to the rest of his argument， is that “form excludes the content”. That is， a particular medium can onlysustain a particular level of ideas. Thus rational argument， integral to print typography， is militated against by the medium of television for the aforesaid reason.
In this changing information time， various technologies and services emerge in an endless stream. Newly born communicative technology has brought about a radical change to human being’s life. WeChat， whose users reached 200 million. It has exerted a great influence on every aspect of mankind’s life.
2. Reflections of the Book-From the Perspective of WeChat
WeChat is the largest standalone-messaging app by monthly active users. Some IT critics said that by far WeChat is likely to be the fastest growing