The Misunderstanding And Correction Of Chinese Adolescences’ Values Under The Influence Of Visual Culture

Through the subversion of traditional culture, which is mainly spread by words, the visual culture has broken the original structure of people’s daily lives and had a profound impact on all aspects of our human life. We can’t ignore the influences it made to our values, let alone those to our adolescents Therefore, there is great theoretical significance and practical needs to have a deep research on these following aspects:essential characteristics of the visual culture, process of its subverting the traditional culture, channels through which it affects values of the youths in China, negative effects, measures to correct the wrong values and so on. The visual culture is a Inter-disciplinary and cross-disciplinary research topic, relating to philosophy, aesthetics, sociology, psychology, literature and art, and other disciplines. Therefore, this article mainly uses these disciplines’ research methods and relevant views for reference.First, the article discusses the impact of the visual culture on China’s traditional culture, mainly from the essential characteristics of the visual culture, replicable and disruptive, to analyze its subversion damage of our traditional culture through its infectivity and destructive power. Then, it analyses the main ways of influencing on our adolescents’ values from these aspects:how to change the needs of individual adolescents in our country, how to transform their life styles, how to rigidify their ways of thinking and so on.Next, from a philosophical point, this article analyzes the misled values of adolescents in our country influenced by the visual culture and their adverse effects and consequences. Their values subject selection presents a host-guest status reversion, value choice changes from the diversity to the single, the binary oppositions boundaries of value judgments become fuzzy.At last, according to visual culture’ ways of influencing the values of young people in China, as well as all the astray values and hazards resulted, this article proposes four paths to begin to promote our values of young people and return to healthy and rational:to contain cultural industries over commercial, to perfect media self-regulatory mechanism, to return to the aesthetic value of rational thinking, to improve the quality of life advocated humane care four paths.