Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: With the rapid development of social media, the identity process of youth groups presents unprecedented complexity and dynamics. Social media not only provides youth with a platform for multicultural communication, self-expression and public participation, but also brings problems such as information overload, cognitive solidification, and conflict between virtual and real identities, which leads some youth into identity crisis. This paper focuses on the performance of youth identity crisis, crisis and its reconstruction path in the context of social media. The study concludes that social media is a catalyst for identity crisis and also an important space for reconstruction. Solving the crisis requires the concerted efforts of individuals, society and platforms, including improving media literacy, building healthy online communities and optimising algorithmic mechanisms. The research in this paper provides theoretical references and practical insights for the healthy socialisation of youth groups and cyberspace governance.
Authors: Aaiming Mai, Wen Sun
Institution: Zhengzhou Business University
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7082256736