The Influence Of Social Media On Ethnic Identity Of Minority Teenagers

The sociologist Fei Xiaotong put forward the vision that "every beauty is beautiful,beauty is in common with the wor-ld,and the world is in harmony."it is today that we are vigorously cultivating national culture,carrying forward national spirit,and strengthening ethnic identity.Strengthening the ethnic identity of the members of all ethnic groups to better realize the identity of the Chinese nation has become an important consensus for the long-term stability of a multi-ethnic country.The youth stage is an important period for the formation and maintenance of a person's value.For minority teenagers,their wor-ld outlook,outlook on life,values and national outlook are still in constant change and growth.It is necessary to foster the ethnic identity of minority teenagers in order to promote the overall ethnic identity,and it has become a topic of great practical significance.The rapid change of Internet technology has given birth to social media,a new form of media communication.With the gradual lowering of the threshold of technology and the continuous expansion of the scale of Internet users,this form has evolved into a social ecosystem.It has a subtle influence on people's way of life,learning behavior,value concept and so on.On the basis of combing the literature of social media,ethnic identity and minority teenagers,the paper mainly adopts the quantitative questionnaire method and the qualitative in-depth interview method to carry out the research.First of all,the use of social media for minority teenagers is analyzed from two aspects:use behavior and use motivation.Secondly,based on the results of questionnaires and in-depth interviews,ethnic identity is divided into three dimensions:ethnic cognition,ethnic emotion and ethnic behavior,the influence of social media on ethnic identity of minority teenagers was analyzed from ethnic identity,ethnic cultural identity,personal behavior,group behavior,language,food and clothing,and social participation.Finally,from the perspectives of national policies,media communication agencies and minority teenagers,the strategies of promoting ethnic identity of minority teenagers in the social media era are discussed in order to provide some reference and reference for subsequent research.