Internet "memes" are spreading virally in schools, becoming a "popular code" among primary and secondary school students, and their negative impact has permeated multiple levels such as language expression, cognitive thinking, and value shaping.
1. Main types and harms of "memes" in schools
- Hollow expression type: such as "yyds", "absolute child", "EMO", etc., using single vague vocabulary to replace precise expression, long-term use leads to students' vocabulary deficiency, decreased language perception, and falling into the dilemma of "loss of words".
- Value distortion type: such as "lying flat", "slacking off", "not doing homework is a hero", etc., hiding negative guidance or bad inducements, weakening students' ambition, misleading their attitudes toward learning and life.
- Insulting and derogatory type: such as "Tang people" (mocking individuals with Down syndrome), "paratrooper" (homophonic insult), "thin dog", etc., containing discrimination and malice, easily inducing campus language violence, distorting students' recognition of respect for others.
2. Core reasons for the popularity of "memes" in schools
1. Propagation environment boost: Algorithms from short video and gaming platforms continuously push high-interaction meme content, with low thresholds for minors to access the internet and weak discernment, making them easily attracted and imitated.
2. Social demand drive: Memes become the "passport" to integrate into groups, students, to avoid marginalization, will blindly follow even if they do not understand the meaning, forming a vicious cycle of "meme socializing".
3. Lack of educational guidance: Families lack supervision of children's online behavior, schools lack systematic internet literacy education, and platforms' youth modes are not accurately filtered, collectively allowing the spread of memes.
3. Collaborative governance strategies from multiple parties
- School level: Launch theme activities for analyzing internet language, enrich students' language reserves through classic readings and reading courses, and explicitly prohibit the use of non-standard memes in formal expressions such as essays.
- Family level: Parents set an example by regulating language, actively understanding the memes their children use, replacing blind denial with equal dialogue, and guiding children to express emotions and needs with specific language.
- Social and platform level: Implement the requirements of the "Clear and Bright" special action, platforms strengthen content review and algorithm optimization, accurately filter vulgar memes; regulatory authorities improve norms and build a healthy ecological environment for internet language. $BTC
