Haolin Peng

With the deep integration of artificial intelligence and recommendation algorithms, the production and distribution mechanisms of visual on digital platforms are undergoing a fundamental transformation. Algorithmic aesthetics, as a new aesthetic paradigm dominated by machine logic, profoundly influences the visual consumption habits, identity construction, and modes of the youth. Drawing upon the theoretical perspectives of aesthetic politics and technological critique, this paper examines how algorithmic aesthetics reshape the operational logic of youth visual culture. It analyzes the risks it poses such as aesthetic convergence, alienation of subjectivity, and cognitive narrowing, while exploring the agency and resistance strategies demonstrated by young people in this process. The study finds that algorithmic aesthetics is not a unidirectional process technological discipline, but rather a dynamic process of entanglement and negotiation between technological logic and youth cultural practices. Understanding this tension is of significant importance for grasping the trajectory of youth culture in the digital.

algorithmic aesthetics; youth visual culture; recommendation algorithms; aesthetic discipline; digital platforms

[1] Cf.Anne Witz,Chris Warhurst and Dennis Nickson,“The Labour of Aesthetics and the Aesthetics of Organization,”in Stella Minahan,ed.,The Aesthetic Turn in Management,pp.89-110. [2] Cf.Pei-Chia Lan,“Working in A Neon Cage:Bodily Labor of Cosmetics Saleswomen in Taiwan,”Feminist Studies,vol.29,no.1,2003,pp.21-45. [3] Cf.Anne Witz,Chris Warhurst and Dennis Nickson,“The Labour of Aesthetics and the Aesthetics of Organization,”in Stella Minahan,ed.,The Aesthetic Turn in Management,pp.89-110. [4] Cf.Chris Warhurst and Dennis Nickson,Looking Good,Sounding Right:Style Counselling in the New Economy,2001,p.13. [5] Cf.Anne Witz,Chris Warhurst and Dennis Nickson,“The Labour of Aesthetics and the Aesthetics of Organization,”in Stella Minahan,ed.,The Aesthetic Turn in Management,pp.89-110.

点击下载PDF