Arts Studies and Criticism

As an emerging audio-visual format, AI micro-short dramas leverage their potent capacity for emotional mobilization and communicative advantages to offer new possibilities for cultivating the sense of community for the Chinese nation. This paper constructs a three-dimensional analytical framework of "advantages-dilemmas-paths" to guide the investigation. The study reveals that while AI micro-short dramas demonstrate significant potential in technological empowerment, narrative innovation, and communicative amplification, they simultaneously face multiple challenges, ranging from the conflict between technological rationality and value orientation, to issues of narrative homogenization and historical distortion, and further to the algorithmic reinforcement of group divides. Accordingly, this paper proposes systematic optimization strategies from three aspects: building the technological foundation by establishing a value-guided intelligent creation system, refining the narrative content through developing emotionally resonant expressions, and optimizing the dissemination practice by constructing an intelligent and collaborative cultivation ecosystem. The objective is to achieve a cultivation of the sense of community for the Chinese nation that is tangible, perceptible, and effective.