Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Science Education and Art Appreciation (SEAA 2022)

How Social Media Promote Sex Education Among Chinese Teenagers

Authors
Zijun Chen1, *
1Division of Culture and Creativity, Beijing Normal University - Hong Kong Baptist University United International College, Zhuhai, 519087, China
*Corresponding author. Email: q030031027@mail.uic.edu.cn
Corresponding Author
Zijun Chen
Available Online 19 November 2022.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-05-3_162How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Sex education; Social media; Chinese teenagers; Suggestions for social media platforms
Abstract

Under the development of social media, and with teenagers’ earlier approaching to it and their earlier awareness of sex, it is of great significance to manage the sex knowledge on social media and improve the environment of teenagers getting sex education in China. This paper is dedicated to analyzing how social media can promote sex education among Chinese teenagers playing a subsidiary role. The presented analysis and suggestions are beneficial for all researchers who have interest in this topic to get some meaningful information about the current situation of sex education in China and how social media affects, and helpful for all educational roles, including teenagers themselves. A questionnaire collected 146 responses is designed scientifically and accordingly under the comprehension of sex education in China nowadays. The results show that it is not surprising to see Chinese teenagers are not satisfied with the current sex education and that social media needs to make effort on the accuracy, openness, system and dissemination as a counselor.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Science Education and Art Appreciation (SEAA 2022)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
19 November 2022
ISBN
978-2-494069-05-3
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-05-3_162How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2023 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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