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Social Media and Adolescent Health (2024) - PDF: https://lnkd.in/eY6PPZgK || Video: https://lnkd.in/gwdyuHwi A recent National Academies consensus study, Social Media and Adolescent Health, examined current research about social media’s effects on the mental and physical health of young people. The resulting report calls for a better understanding of social media’s influence on development and makes specific recommendations for policymakers and other leaders in the categories of design, training and education, online harassment, and research. Access the full report and other resources here: https://lnkd.in/eY6PPZgK Video: https://lnkd.in/gwdyuHwi Social media has been fully integrated into the lives of most adolescents in the U.S., raising concerns among parents, physicians, public health officials, and others about its effect on mental and physical health. Over the past year, an ad hoc committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine examined the research and produced this detailed report exploring that effect and laying out recommendations for policymakers, regulators, industry, and others in an effort to maximize the good and minimize the bad. Focus areas include platform design, transparency and accountability, digital media literacy among young people and adults, online harassment, and supporting researchers.
