How the Needs of Self-presentation are Related to the Social Media Fatigue of Chinese College Students on WeChat Moments

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10.2991/assehr.k.220105.091How to use a DOI?

Keywords

social media fatigue; self-presentation; role conflict; WeChat Moments

Abstract

The needs of self-presentation have been confirmed by past studies as one of the factors leading to social media fatigue. Based on semi-structured interviews with twenty Chinese college students, this paper investigated how social activities on their WeChat Moments have changed, and explored how the demand for self-presentation has led to social media fatigue in this change. The trend of enlargement of the circle of contacts can be clearly seen on their WeChat Moments, through which the contacts who maintain “weak ties” with the users have gradually become the majority, causing the users to experience role conflict in social interaction. Therefore, the users have lost control of the “stage”, and been forced to change their self-presentation strategies. Social media fatigue often occurs at this time. For more secure “audience isolation”, they tend to migrate to other social platforms. Thus, this paper revealed a specific path of social media fatigue caused by the demand for self-presentation.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xinhao Liu
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/01/17
TI  - How the Needs of Self-presentation are Related to the Social Media Fatigue of Chinese College Students on WeChat Moments
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Social Development and Media Communication (SDMC 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 484
EP  - 496
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220105.091
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220105.091
ID  - Liu2022
ER  -