Exploring the Motivation in Adolescents’ Running of We-Media and as Peer Audiences

Shiyu Xu

doi:10.54254/2753-7048/31/20231814

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Exploring the Motivation in Adolescents’ Running of We-Media and as Peer Audiences

Shiyu Xu *^,1,

¹ Suzhou Foreign Language School

* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

https://doi.org/10.54254/2753-7048/31/20231814

Abstract

With the development of the Internet, various types of online we-media platforms have become the main channels for underage Internet users for their everyday entertainment and information acquisition. An increasing number of teenagers are choosing to operate their own social media accounts. While the Internet gives teenagers a broader and more diversified platform to display themselves, it also brings positive and negative impacts on their mental health. The study focuses on the exploration of the motivations, perceptions, influences, and gender differences of adolescents to operate we-media accounts and to be peer viewers of other adolescents' accounts in the context of a high internet penetration rate. The results show that teenagers' overall motivation for operating we-media accounts and being a peer audience is more for entertainment and obtaining information, and less for competing with their peers. The study further concluded that there are large gender differences in the effects of following peer media accounts on peer pressure. Questionnaires were used as well as reading of relevant literature to help gather information and data for the study and to make statistical and comparative analyses.

Keywords

adolescent, peer pressure, adolescent internet usage,we-media

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Xu,S. (2023). Exploring the Motivation in Adolescents’ Running of We-Media and as Peer Audiences. Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media,31,51-58.

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Volume title: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Interdisciplinary Humanities and Communication Studies

Conference website: https://www.icihcs.org/

ISBN：978-1-83558-177-3(Print) / 978-1-83558-178-0(Online)

Conference date: 15 November 2023

Editor：Javier Cifuentes-Faura, Enrique Mallen

Series: Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media

Volume number: Vol.31

ISSN：2753-7048(Print) / 2753-7056(Online)

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