TRI Salon | Understanding Chinese Society with Complex Thinking
8月31日，腾讯研究院邀请到清华大学社会学系教授罗家德，联合木果书架一起，举办了一场“复杂”的读书会。结合其新书《复杂：信息时代的连接、机会与布局》中的观点，罗家德教授与向我们展现了复杂思维下的社会系统认知方式、以及复杂带来的好处。正如社会网学界的超级大牛威尔曼所说“互联网其实就是一张社会网”，在社会科学领域，复杂思维结合复合学科的方法论与方法基础，用以收集大数据、验证模型，就能更好地理解社会并预测未来。
On August 31, Tencent Research Institute (TRI) invited Professor Luo Jiade from the sociology department of Tsinghua University to talk about his new book Complexity with a topic as "Complex Thinking in an Information Age" in Beijing. As social scientist Barry Wellman said “Computer networks are inherently social networks”, Prof. Luo believed social institutions should focus on the interplay among the Internet, social relations and social structure, a bit to better understand and predict Chinese society with complex thinking.
Sichuan "Internet Plus" Index Ranks atop in Central-Western China
《四川省“互联网+”数字经济指数报告》由腾讯公司联合京东、携程、滴滴出行、美团点评等企业，共享大数据汇聚而成，同时也加入了四川省本地统计的经济运行数据。报告显示，2016年，四川省数字经济总体量达到8211亿元，占全省GDP的比重达到25.13%，位居全国第七。2017年上半年全省数字产业细分领域中增速最快的分别为医疗服务（157%）、教育（84%）、和文化娱乐（81%）。
Tencent Research Institute (TRI) released the "Internet Plus" Index 2017 for Sichuan province last week, which unfolds the digital economy development status across 21 Sichuan cities. It suggests that the province's digital economy reached 821.1 billion yuan in 2016, accounted for 25.1 percent of GDP and ranked No. 7 nationwide. The province’s digital economy has seen a rapid growth in medical service, education, culture and entertainment sectors in the first half of 2017, jumped 157 to 81 percent.
How China's Manufacturing Revolution Boosts Its Digital Economy
当前，我国数字经济正进入快速发展新阶段。大力推进信息化与工业化融合发展，是我国长期坚持的战略部署，在推动新旧动能接续转换，促进传统产业利用信息通信技术提升全要素效率和提高产出增长等方面的作用愈加显著，成为推动数字经济发展的重要力量。推动互联网与实体经济特别是制造业深度融合，大力发展工业互联网、促进信息消费，加快制造业数字化、网络化、智能化，培育新的经济增长点，均能有效地带动数字经济发展。
China has long pushed the integration of information technology with industrialization, and the ongoing manufacturing revolution has become a major driven force to boost the country’s digital economy. Tencent Research Institute (TRI) researchers analyze how a deep integration of the Internet and manufacturing, digitalization of manufacturing and fostering new areas of economic growth changed China’s digital economy landscape.
S-Tech：VR Tide Report to Release in Beijing Next Week
腾讯研究院S-Tech工作室与浙江大学心理与行为科学系李峙研究组，组建的VR心潮联合研究组，将于9月14日在北京发布首份研究「VR如何影响人与社会」的专业报告 -- 《VR心潮》。从2017年3月至8月，联合研究组整合、梳理了大量前人的研究成果，从心理学角度研究VR可能会给人们的身心与生活带来的影响与改变，并将研究成果集结成册，命名为《VR心潮：关于身体、大脑与心灵，那些被VR改良、塑造与（可能）异化的》。欢迎参与我们在在三里屯CHAO酒店举办的报告发布会，点击报名
The VR Tide research group, jointly founded by Tencent Research Institute (TRI) and Zhejiang University’s psychology department, will release its first report VR Tide：Social implications of VR：Body, Brain and Soul in Beijing on Sept. 14. The research group conducted a comprehensive study on how VR has changed us physically and mentally, as well as its impact on our lives. The event will be held in CHAO Hotel in Sanlitun. Book Your Seat
知乎电子书 | 社交的尺度：一份社交网络斋戒报告 & 八个深度斋戒故事
TRI Books | Social Network Fasting Report and Stories Behind Our Experiment
社交网络上的信息过载和好友关系庞杂，加重了现代人的焦虑和负担；身在人群，目光却在手机屏幕，出现了「群体性孤独」；永远在线，碎片化生存，真实生活备受分心所扰。社交网络对我们产生了哪些影响？它让我们的生活更好了吗？为此，腾讯研究院 S-Tech 工作室发起的一项 85 人社会实验，进行一场为期 15 天的「社交斋戒」，探寻斋戒行为对幸福感、疏离感、工作投入等指标的影响和产生的原因，你的社交诉求或许也在其中。点此购买
S-Tech under Tencent Research Institute (TRI) has designed a social network fasting experiment with 85 volunteers, required them to stop using social network for 15 days. A full experiment report is now available on Zhihu.com, with key conclusions included fasting helps users to better deal with social network overload and rethink their online social interaction. Meanwhile, users under fasting could face problems such as being out of contact, lacking necessary emotional sustenance and interpersonal relationships for life and work. Buy eBook
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