The Study of Social Media Alienation in the Digitized World

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210806.122How to use a DOI?

Keywords

“social media”, “alienation”, “user”, “phenomena”, “reason”

Abstract

As the digitization of society progressed, the connection between lifestyle and social media use has been strengthened. Such advancement has been designed to simplify human interaction while providing its users with diversified functions like entertainment, sharing, community, even shopping. Although the popularity of social media has been a great benefit for information flew and lifestyle inspiration, some drawbacks of such radical change should be argued from a societal perspective. Social media itself is regarded as a technical improvement progressed to provide its users with better communication and a more enjoyable online life. However, it has enslaved its users psychologically, and the users become victims of the digital product instead of its controller. Such conflict, which is on the opposite side of the initial purpose when it was designed, can be defined as alienation. The essay has driven multiple academic resources to offer an illustration of the social media alienation phenomenal. Meanwhile, applying several second-hand literature from an outstanding scholar in a related area to support its argument. It explores the phenomena of social media alienation then tries to develop possible reasons behind the alienation. The discussion and summary in the final part concludes with the inspiration people can get from the battle against alienation and some possible solution to the addiction. The research result is expected to inspire digital society: the importance of managing social media use must be stressed. People need to use any possible and decent strategy to enjoy their online interaction instead of being controlled even ruined by social media. The significance can be observed from the following parts: it draws the general definition of alienation and social media with their discussion individually to introduce the key point of social media alienation. It focuses on the relationship between social media and its user to discuss the conflict in the alienation process, with each argument supported by related literature. It looks for the phenomena meanwhile puts effort into analyzing the reason behind it. In the end, it provides inspiration and possible strategies for people struggling with social media alienation.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Haochen Bai
AU  - Kexin Gao
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/08/09
TI  - The Study of Social Media Alienation in the Digitized World
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 5th International Seminar on Education, Management and Social Sciences (ISEMSS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 652
EP  - 657
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210806.122
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210806.122
ID  - Bai2021
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