Youth Ideological Risk Identification and Guidance Mechanisms: Exploring the Impact of New Media on Youth Ideological Shifts

Abstract

With social media and the new media rapidly developing, teenagers are seen as a very mobile social group under the circumstances, they are to integrate traditional mainstream ideas and relatively unconventional thoughts on new media. Furthermore, the so-called
weak signal can easily be passed around the wide range of ideologies with new media and digital platforms. This paper aims to probe in
the model of ideological risk identification and avoidance for teenagers, which draws inspiration from the influence of new media in teenagers minds. Based on the theory of weak signal identification and new medias influence upon teenagers, this paper proposes a series of
combined intervention guidance mechanisms integrating human and technology. This paper reveals through previous literature and incidents what information should be collected for early warning of the ideological risks and the corresponding guidance strategies to make
teenagers return to mainstream values, and finally draws the conclusion for the policy-making recommendations of youth ideological shifts
in a dynamic media ecology.