From the Perspective of Social Media

Abstract

The study sets up a research question that whether comments on social media affect their perceptions of Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) group. It was a gap and there were no people to investigate this question in the past. Also, the study used Chinese social media, Weibo, to collect the comments of the LGBT group. And then, the study sets up a questionnaire interview to get data from different people. After that, the data was analysed by some charts and SWOT. These charts explored the relationship between ages or gender and word of mouth, which could prove that word of mouth influenced people's perceptions. The summary, which was reached by charts and SWOT, commented that social media could change people's attitudes toward LGBT groups and make them accept the LGBT group more. Moreover, this paper also proved the study's hypothesis that social media made people accept the LGBT group more is precise. What is more, the reason why the study had this research question is just that the appearance of the drama of Tanbi made the LGBT group become flourish. Moreover, the implication of the research was finding people's perceptions of LGBT and their factors of change.

The process of contemporary gay identity development in China: The influence of internet use

“…Our research found that Tanbi product consumption online facilitates adolescents' early understanding and awareness of same-sex attraction. Unlike hidden gay topics in mainstream mass media, the flourishing of Internet Tanbi drama, which talks about the culture of Boy's Love (BL) and popular among sexual minority as well as heterosexual adolescents creates a chance for sexual minority culture to officially go into the public view ( 30 ). Pan's research pointed out that Tanbi products potentially impacted on Chinese adolescents' sexual orientation.…”

Impact of social media usage on academic performance of university students: Mediating role of mental health under a cross‐sectional study in Bangladesh

“…The desire to express oneself on social media lights up the same part of the brain that activates while taking some addictive element. 1 It is also found that there is an irrefutable connection between the usage of social media, bad physical and mental health, and low self-esteem, which has become more severe due to the pandemic. 2 Another study from California State University reported that in Bangladesh there were 45 million (27.2% of the total population) social media users in January 2021 and the number increased by 9 million (25%) between 2020 and 2021.…”