Risks vs. Harms: Youth & Social Media
The guide addresses social media use in teenagers, emphasizing the importance of social media literacy, its impact on mental health, and the need for empowering educational strategies to navigate digital environments effectively.
LinkRegulation that fails to interrogate the manipulative logics of interface design does not merely risk incompleteness; it risks legitimising exploitation. To prevent this, the framework must evolve from content-centric mitigation to design-centric accountability , embedding architectural manipulation into the core of risk assessment and requiring pl... See more
Dr Mark R Leiser • Systemic Manipulation, Child Vulnerability, and the Regulatory Deficit in Ofcom’s Framework
We think social media has changed childhood and adolescence for the worse, so much so that it constitutes a “great rewiring of childhood.” Beginning in the 1990s, a childhood based heavily on outdoor play began to fade away and was replaced by a phone-based childhood in the early 2010s, when teens traded in their flip phones for smartphones.
Can we
... See moreEli George • Do the Kids Think They’re Alright?
Understanding technologies requires also understanding power; it needs media literacy as well as technical literacy; incisive questioning as well as shock and awe.
Rachel Coldicutt • On Understanding Power and Technology
Let me be clear: there is no way to make social media safe for children by just making the content less toxic. It’s the phone-based childhood that is harming them, regardless of what they watch . Kids need to be freed from the grip of smartphones and social media, especially through early puberty. This is why two of the four norms I propose for sol
... See moreJon Haidt • Marshall McLuhan on Why Content Moderation Is a Red Herring
The problem with Jon Haidt's work, IMO, is that it's "Everyone knows that everyone knows that everyone already knows" that social media is bad and that maybe kids shouldn't be using smartphones so much.
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