A Study on the Impact of Live Streaming on College Students' Consumption Values and Countermeasures

Journal: Modern Economics & Management Forum DOI: 10.32629/memf.v7i2.5172

Xiaoyu Hu

Yangtze University, Jingzhou 434023, Hubei, China

Abstract

Live streaming, embedded in college students’ daily lives via the digital economy, influences their consumption. Existing studies apply consumption alienation theory to their irrational live-streaming consumption but ignore its particularity under China’s socialist market economy. Based on Western Marxist consumption alienation theory, this paper uses literature, systematic and interdisciplinary methods to analyze live streaming’s dual impacts on college students’ consumption values, explores causes of their consumption alienation, and proposes countermeasures from government, school, family and individual to guide rational consumption.

Keywords

live streaming; college students; impact; countermeasures

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