College Students’ Network Speech Community under the New Media Environment

Since the emergence of the Internet, the most active contemporary college students, have plenty of time and are good at accepting new things. For some social problems reported on the Internet, they rely on the new media to express their views and opinions even give advice. Chatting on the network, establishing network forums for information exchange, forming large and small virtual communities. This paper first illustrates the code-switching form of college students’ speech community. Secondly, it illustrates the characteristics and communicative mode of network speech community. Finally, it shows that contemporary youth rely on the communication mode of openness, equality and interaction of new media to construct youthful identity and promote the ideological collision between young people in different countries.