Youth Group Socializing With Milk Tea: Symbols, Identification And Emotional Energy

Taking milk tea as the analysis object,this paper focuses on its unique significance as a social symbol,especially the symbolic interactive value of milk tea in the social ceremony of youth and its influence on the emotion of youth groups.Different from the existing achievements of domestic scholars in modern social studies,this study focuses on the interactive social mechanism of young people who take milk tea as a social symbol and return to the initial model of face-to-face social interaction.This study USES the method of network text analysis to compare the interaction in cyberspace with offline practice,and analyzes the social logic of modern youth through the symbolic operation of milk tea.This paper first sorted out the development of the interactive ritual chain theory and sorted out relevant literature on the current situation of youth communication in China.It was found that most of the literature on youth social interaction in the past focused on the performance or plight of youth in online social interaction without paying attention to youth face-to-face social interaction.Starting from the theory of interactive ritual chain,we analyze how young people interact with surrounding elements centered on milk tea in social interaction,and reveal the formation process of interactive ritual chain in social interaction,that is,entering the space of milk tea--interactive ritual--emotional energy--repeated participation.Finally,we explain the results of the interactive ceremony of young people's milk tea,that is,it strengthens the status and cooperation in the social symbols of milk tea,and urges young people to return to the primary colors of social interaction--all these have clarified the evolutionary context of the logic of social tools for young people.The main research aspects are listed in the following five chapters.The first chapter generally elaborates the concept of inviting milk tea social and the development of milk tea social at home and abroad.Based on the concept of "food social",the milk tea social derives from the concept of "food social"--a kind of social communication based on milk tea.From this perspective,the understanding of diet has exceeded the concept of food itself to satisfy hunger,and has become an important link of interpersonal relations.The second chapter expounds the link elements,space elements,boundary elements,focus elements and emotional energy elements of the social ceremony of youth milk tea,and analyzes the interactive characteristics during the ceremony.The third chapter mainly discusses the growth stage of milk tea social interaction(the initial stage of interaction,the intermediate stage,the climax stage).In the initial stage of interaction,the milk tea topic is ignited by stars,and the information transmission of milk tea information is completed by sharing homemade milk tea.In the intermediate stage of interaction,information communication is upgraded to emotional communication.Milk tea shops take board games and other group interactive games as carriers to better promote the possibility of integration between young people and milk tea.At the climax of the interaction,the crazy queuing in milk tea shops and the spontaneous creation of emojis by the youth reflect the unique vitality and emotional expression of the youth.youth subculture,the author tries to summarize the model of social interaction ceremony for youth,so as to provide modeling solutions for other social tools for youth in the future.