The Influence of Social Network and Information Cocoon on Major Selection

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10.2991/assehr.k.220105.146How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Major Selection; Social Networking; Information Cocoons; Weak Ties

Abstract

The Internet is permeating the education sector as it becomes more informationized, which includes providing students with information to make learning and learning-related decisions easier. However, few studies have investigated how the information cocoon effect of the Internet and the social network (strong & weak ties) in sociology can influence students’ choice of major. After combining and summarizing a number of literature, the research results show that the information cocoon effect and social networks can be combined, and a large number of weak ties can be found and utilized through the Internet itself to establish a social network, so as to obtain more diversified information to counter and break the information cocoon.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xianyangguang Wu
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/01/17
TI  - The Influence of Social Network and Information Cocoon on Major Selection
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Social Development and Media Communication (SDMC 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 800
EP  - 804
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220105.146
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220105.146
ID  - Wu2022
ER  -