Volume 92

Social media significantly influences body image (often negatively), through mechanisms like social comparison, particularly among young people who are exposed to idealized content on platforms like Instagram and TikTok. This paper reviews the impact of social media on body image. It also examined moderating factors such as gender and culture, as well as consequences including eating disorders and reduced self-esteem. Evidence suggests frequent exposure to body image related social media exacerbates dissatisfaction, with women and adolescents being particularly vulnerable. However, media literacy education is able to mitigate these effects. Current research lacks cross-cultural and longitudinal perspectives, necessitating further exploration. This study underscores the need for balanced social media use and interventions to foster healthier self-perception, offering insights for readers to learn more about its relationships with different platforms, ages, cultural backgrounds, and so forth , so as to reduce harmful idealized content and encourage readers to use social media in a more critical way.

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In recent years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been remarkably progress in many field. Nowadays AI has rapidly expanded its influence into the field of music, introducing innovative approaches to music composition, music education and music performance assessments. This study discusses how AI has been used inside these areas, where assisting human at AI educational purposes and also in composition purposes. This paper also addresses key challenges, including issues of model interpretability, stylistic limitations and other ethical concerns that are related to authorship. Lastly, the paper indicates future directions for AI usage in the music domain. In particular, further research may focus on developing more transparent algorithms to improve user trust, exploring hybrid systems that integrate human creativity with machine intelligence, and establishing clearer frameworks for copyright and ownership of AI-generated works. By providing this structured overview, the review seeks to promote a deeper understanding of AI’s potential as a collaborative tool in reshaping the future of music.

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Against the background of the booming short video industry, TikTok and other platforms have become important carriers of traditional cultural communication with their huge user base and algorithm advantages. Their Chinese-style content covers many fields, facilitating the widespread dissemination of traditional culture. However, this kind of communication also faces problems such as superficial content, which restricts the effectiveness of cultural communication. This article takes the content of TikTok’s national style as the research object, adopts literature analysis and case study methods, and combines policy documents and typical cases of "Peng Chuanming's non-genetic inheritance" to systematically explore the dual impacts of short video platforms on the dissemination of traditional culture. Positives include breaking time and space barriers, reaching remote areas and young people, and lowering participation thresholds through interactive formats. Negatives involve fragmented communication, over-commercialization, and information distortion. The article suggests management strategies for content optimization, platform supervision, and multi-collaboration to address these challenges.

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In the era of globalization, the recreation of retro cultural symbols by youth groups through social media platforms (especially TikTok) has become a remarkable phenomenon. Through focusing on the re-creation of retro culture, this paper explores how youth develop novel and unique cultural expressions by deconstructing, reorganizing and reinterpreting historical symbols. The paper also argues that this symbolic practice represents a form of cultural resistance through carnivalization and emotional deconstruction. Youth utilize visual, verbal, and behavioral symbols to construct a comprehensive system of expression. This system serves as a medium to convey their identity, emotional needs, and resistance to mainstream societal norms. The re-creation of retro culture is not only a kind of nostalgic behavior, but also an important way for youth to establish meaning, realize self-expression and emotional belonging in the digital space.

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