The “Speed and Passion” of the Short Video Era

A Qualitative Study Based on Time Anxiety of Contemporary Youth

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.220704.220How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Short video era; Sociology of Time; Sense of time anxiety; Qualitative Research

Abstract

The further development of new media has become the era of short videos. Short videos are characterized by their short duration and a large amount of information. The time spent on short videos is as fast as the racing experience, just like the speed experience in The Fast and Furious. In using short videos, young people have more or less anxiety due to the “speed and passion” experience. This study classifies this anxiety as time anxiety based on the social time theory perspective. Based on in-depth interviews with ten young people, it found that the time anxiety of young people is mainly reflected in three aspects: time acceleration anxiety, time impatience anxiety, and time loss anxiety. In the unstoppable short video era, to ensure the reasonable use of this new media, the ways that alleviate youth groups’ time anxiety should be based on their current situation.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xiaotong Tan
AU  - Mengyao Hu
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/07/11
TI  - The “Speed and Passion” of the Short Video Era
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 3rd International Conference on Mental Health, Education and Human Development (MHEHD 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1213
EP  - 1216
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220704.220
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220704.220
ID  - Tan2022
ER  -