Recently socialise working and thoughts for myself
A few days ago, I found a girl on Chinese social media. Last year she was a member of SNH48, a Chinese girl idol group. After she got the offer of graduate from UCL, she left the idol group and came to the UK to study for a postgraduate degree. I saw the video of her dancing with Chinese people in London on her Chinese video platform channel, so I directly sent her a message asking whether she havs Instagram. She said no, and then we exchanged WeChat (China’s WhatsApp).
At the same time, I thought of my undergraduate junior schoolmate (I don’t know if this expression is correct, because people told me that there is no such expression in the UK), Jia. She is a super good dancer, but no one knew her when she first came to London in September this year. No one knows how good she is. Before she came to London, I asked her to get off the plane and register Instagram immediately, so that more people could know her; At the same time, I also told London dancers I knew in advance that there will be a very good dancer coming to Imperial College in September, and I hope they can know each other. With my introduction, Jia was known and appreciated by many people in her first month in London.
This situation also came to other talented Chinese dancers. From my experience in China, I have different way to let people know I am a good dancer. One way is that I have social media channels on different social platforms. I can put the location information whenever I upload something. Then people whose signal location are the same as mine, they might see my post on the first page of the social platform based on the algorithm. In China, we call it “I blushed you”. So if people blush me, they will see the content I post and be like “Wow! This girl comes to my city!” The second is, we have many offline K-Pop events to participate, such as random play dance. From my opinion, the reason why there are a lot this offline K-Pop event is, Chinese people (especially university students) have been locked up for too long physically and mentally, so once they have the opportunity to go out, they will come out.
I always fly to different places to take part in these events in China, as well as I do in London, but for other people, because they are new here, they do not know where to go.
New intervention idea
So I came up with an idea of an intervention, which is to publicize these local communities and competitions on Chinese social platforms, and put “for new comers” in the title. Because many new comers do not use Instagram or other foreign social platforms, they are relatively in an information blocked environment, so they lack a research tool and a channel to join these communities. Actually, I do not know if it could be an intervention, but that is what I think I need to do.
I already posted the first post of “Know about K-Pop in London in 2 minutes! Local crews part” on the most commonly used Chinese social media platform for Chinese students, and got 34 likes and 14 “Join my collection”.
But at the same time, I am also thinking about why I have the internal drive to research these local dance crews. I think it is because, compared with others, K-Pop dance is more important in my mind (although I did not take it as that serious), but may not be so important in others’ lives, so there is no need to do a lot of research in this area.
I use intervention 3.1 because I think this will lead to a further intervention process, so this is only the part 1 of the intervention 3.