Symbol Consumption in New Social Media -- Analysis of Chinese Memes
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- 10.2991/assehr.k.220105.242How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Visual culture; image consumption; photographic visualization; Patriotis
- Abstract
As the new generation of Chinese youth subculture that is driven by the new media of the Internet, the values of visual consumerism have become morediversified, Evans and Stuart Hall (1999) state that “the mechanically and electronically reproduced image is the semantic and technical unit of the modern mass media and at the heart of post-war popular culture”i[1]. This perdition holds much truth today and the ‘meme’ is the best representative production, furthermore, meme’s cutting, fixing, magnifying, and recombining objects decentralize political power as never before. Memes have become one of the languages of social media, particularly on WeChat, Weibo and Tieba, China’s popular social media apps and platforms. Memes are a combination of text and images or pure images, and they have become a means for youth to express their emotions and collective revelry. Meme culture has changed the traditional art and aesthetic impact and to the ways in which people consume images. In this era of high meme consumption, the centralization of media has been weakened by image consumption and transformation. In a consumer society that is full of images, memes can also become a motivating factor for the consumption of consumer consumption and for increasing consumer loyalty to a brand.
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- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
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TY - CONF AU - Yuqiao Liu PY - 2022 DA - 2022/01/17 TI - Symbol Consumption in New Social Media -- Analysis of Chinese Memes BT - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Social Development and Media Communication (SDMC 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 1312 EP - 1317 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220105.242 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.220105.242 ID - Liu2022 ER -