Open AccessA Study on the User Contact of Audiobooks in the Age of Digital Media Based on Computer Technology——A Case Study of the Popular Chinese Application “Himalaya”
Author(s) -
Gaohuan Chen
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1992/2/022032
Subject(s) - china , habit , ethnography , digital media , consumption (sociology) , reflection (computer programming) , psychology , computer science , advertising , multimedia , sociology , business , world wide web , political science , social psychology , social science , anthropology , law , programming language
With the development of computer technology, digital media technology has also developed rapidly, the audiobook industry is going from strength to strength in China. Among these audiobook platforms, Himalayan FM undoubtedly stands out, through which people can acquire supplementary knowledge by making the best of their fragmented time. In the meantime, paying for knowledge as a consumption habit is gradually developed in China. The purpose of this research is to find out the motivation behind and the reflection of people’s learning experience with audiobook. Taking Himalayan FM as case study, this study combines communication with psychology theories by online interview as “Cyber-ethnography”.