Abstract: Online live streaming has become a new domain for people's spiritual and cultural life widely pursued by young students. On the one hand, it seems to be able to achieve freedom and abundance in the spiritual world through open, shared, diverse, and equal means within a simulated society. On the other hand, the risk of alienation in the spiritual life of young people arises from fragmented and siloed knowledge and information feeding, participatory and immersive “carnivals,” and the pan-entertainment performance. By exploring the mechanisms of spiritual alienation and analyzing the conflicts and challenges faced by online live streaming from the perspectives of capital logic, digital technology, and adverse subcultural trends, the author hopes to propose possible paths to allow the spiritual life of young students to return to a state of richness and beauty, so as to eventually transcend alienation by reconstructing spiritual life through building the multi-stakeholder collaborative governance system, providing high-quality content, deepening value guidance, and shaping the soul through education. This way, the author contends, a green and healthy environment for online live streaming will be created.

Key words: online live streaming, young student, spiritual life, alienation, transcendence