Algorithm, Rule, and Flow: The Influence of Short Video Information Control Category on High School Students' Cognitive Construction

Abstract

As the short video is deeply embedded in the daily life of high school students, the information control mechanism behind it has a far-reaching impact on high school students who are in the critical period of cognitive shaping. This paper takes the "short video information control category" as the core analysis framework to explore how its three dimensions of technology, rules, and business systematically affect the cognitive construction of high school students. The study found that the control category has three significant effects on senior high school students' cognition through the algorithm cocoon room, content filtering, and flow logic: first, in terms of cognitive breadth, it leads to narrow information contact and limited vision. Second, in terms of cognitive depth, it promotes the fragmentation of thinking and the shallowness of logic. Third, in terms of cognitive judgment, it leads to value utilitarianism and factual judgment deviation. In response to this challenge, this paper puts forward systematic countermeasures from the perspective of educational intervention: to build a media literacy education system to improve students' information critical ability, promote deep reading and project-based learning, repair their deep thinking mode, strengthen the guidance of values and diversified practice, and correct cognitive bias.