Tangled Self-Presentation

The development of emerging media technologies has given young subcultural groups new expressive potential.For young people,the use of new media technologies has given them unprecedented freedom and an extremely wide space for expression.Young people can move back and forth among various dazzling subcultural styles.More importantly,young people practice through subcultures.It also gradually broke the stereotype of mainstream culture's “secondary” and “edge” of youth subculture,and to a certain extent,it also regained its place in the discourse field.The online “Dispirited culture” is a striking part of the youth subculture that has become popular recently: young people have freed themselves from the constraints of existing social norms,boldly expressed their “depression” on social media,and “sorrow” and “than mourning” In the process of “continuously deconstructing the” disciplinary discipline of the mainstream culture,to realize the ambition of crusading the mainstream culture / leading culture.This article selects We Chat Moments as the research site,with content analysis and in-depth interviews as the main research methods,focusing on how the youth group's“depression” presentation is made,and how young people are recruiting and using“threshold space” Continue to get “threshold experience” during the transfer.It not only inherits the perspectives of “problem solving” and “ceremonial resistance” of Birmingham School,but also pays attention to the identity and meaning identity as a “common lifestyle”in the post-subcultural theory discourse.The research in this article finds that the long-term loss of youth in the discourse field and the atmosphere of “equality” and “democracy” of the Internet that youth have been immersed in for many years have jointly shaped the “joke” and “entertainment” styles of online funeral culture.Concealing its own “resistance intention” under the coat of“entertainment” has become an active choice for youth groups when they face conflicts in culture and values.In particular,the form of “depression” expression pictures as the mostimportant representation of style,not only undertakes the task of “resistance”,but also reduces the firepower of external attacks;at the same time,combined with the theoretical observation of “threshold space”,it is found that At the “stage”,the youth's continuous requisition of “space” not only made it succeed in evading social discipline,but also rationally vented the structural pressures it faced with an intentional “anti-structural”attitude,making many conflicts at this stage.Dissolve,and after that the youth also re-enters a stable structured state.Finally,in the context of a virtual community,young subculture groups attach more importance to defining “space” and establishing group identity based on their own interests.The construction of this group identity itself comes from the confusion of self-identity.