A Review of Research on the Impact of Internet Memes on Ideological and Political Education

Xiangyi Zhu

doi:10.54254/2753-7048/27/20231102

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A Review of Research on the Impact of Internet Memes on Ideological and Political Education

Xiangyi Zhu *^,1,

¹ Beihang University

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https://doi.org/10.54254/2753-7048/27/20231102

Abstract

With the development of internet and social media, undergraduates have become one of the main forces on internet platforms. Among this age group, internet meme is a very popular emotional carrier in the process of network communication. Undergraduates are the main force of the future society and students’ life in university is a significant period of founding correct values. Therefore, how to understand internet memes, how to regard the impact of internet memes, and how to guide college students to use them reasonably becomes an important tasks for college educational workers. This paper is a literature review, that aims to summarize research about the effects of internet memes against ideological and political education in the past decades. The study is based on all the previous research included in CNKI and mainly adopts the literature reading method. The research concludes that educators need to innovate the form of ideological and political education and solve the realistic problems of undergraduates.

Keywords

internet meme, pop net language, ideological and political education, undergraduate, higher education

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Zhu,X. (2023). A Review of Research on the Impact of Internet Memes on Ideological and Political Education. Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media,27,1-6.

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