Private Emotional Expression, Multiple Self-Management and Creativity within Situation: Research on Alternative Weibo Account Users’ Emotion Management and Self-Practice

ZHANG Jie, MA Yikun

Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication ›› 2023, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (12) : 65-80.

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Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication ›› 2023, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (12) : 65-80.
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Private Emotional Expression, Multiple Self-Management and Creativity within Situation: Research on Alternative Weibo Account Users’ Emotion Management and Self-Practice

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Considering the universal connection in the digital association today, social media users seek a sense of self/private boundaries in an ever-expanding public space. This study focuses on the alternative account (xiaohao) in Weibo using by the young groups and the new relationship situation and new self-practice based on it. The study found that the user's personal emotional work based on xiaohao can effectively regulate and alleviate the self-tension and emotional dilemma in real life. In this process, the self, identification and identity realize the flow and reconstruction between the communication law of traditional Chinese relationship orientation and the increasingly prominent individual will, the situation also moves from the situation re-separation to the creation of new reality situation; This new self-reorganization method is unexplicable to the separated self in the network and the suppressed self in the reality, and the creation of its realistic situation also endows the realistic role and the social-self with the vitality of new individual meaning, reflecting the subjective individual will and creative actions of young people today.

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xiaohao / emotion management / self-practice / creativity within situation / individualization

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ZHANG Jie , MA Yikun. Private Emotional Expression, Multiple Self-Management and Creativity within Situation: Research on Alternative Weibo Account Users’ Emotion Management and Self-Practice[J]. Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication. 2023, 45(12): 65-80

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Footnotes

1. 极目新闻(2023)。抖音、微信、微博等各大平台官宣,“实名制”时代来了。检索于 https://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1781341858149024241&wfr=spider&for=pc

2. “参考群体”概念指涉的是个体在行动时,行动倾向往往取决于其认可的参考群体。参考群体主要是身处其中的群体,但也可以是想要加入的群体。详见罗伯特·K·默顿(Merton,R.K.)著;唐少杰等译《社会理论与社会结构》,南京:译林出版社,2008。

Funding

Key Talent Project of Guangzhou University “Research on New Paths of Self Communication in the Era of Social Media from the Perspective of Internal Dialogue”(RZ2022005)
“Research on the Transformation of Urban-Rural Communication Models by Platform Sinking in the Perspective of Medialization”(YJ2023010)
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