Author(s)

Shujun Chen ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Journalism and Communication, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China

Corresponding Author

Shujun Chen

ABSTRACT

As a particular form of communication, Meme is noteworthy for its gestalt structure and the significant proportion of trauma narratives in the text. This study explores the dissemination process of internet memes from the perspectives of meme theory and emotional communication, focusing on how youth groups experiencing trauma are bi-directionally impacted by imitating, transmitting and evolving meme. Based on the python text data mining and analysis method, this study realized the basic judgment of the emotional tendency of narrative content. The results show that the mediating role of meme and the mechanism of emotional transmission are deeply involved in the youth's traumatic narrative process, triggering the transmission of traumatic memory and two-way sensitive disclosure, which provides a new perspective for us to understand the psychological state of youth and explore the characteristics of contemporary network culture.

KEYWORDS

Trauma narrative, Internet memes, Emotional communication

CITE THIS PAPER

Shujun Chen, Narrative of Youth Trauma under the Mechanism of Meme and Emotional Transmission. Media and Communication Research (2025) Vol. 6: 1-7. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/mediacr.2025.060101.

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