📢 The latest 'Children's Media Lives 2024' from Ofcom, via Revealing Reality, heightening again the need to define what we mean by social media in any discussion of it.
🖋 "Children are primarily looking at visual media – images and videos – not interacting with other people. The content they see in their feeds is increasingly professionalised and commercialised – as social media has become bigger and bigger business, it’s changed the way people use it."
🔎 These important reports do highlight the critical need for real time monitoring of impacts, and the challenge of longitudinal research.
✔ Much to digest, but the 5Rights report, from Alexandra Evans and colleagues, and its reference to cumulative harms is spot on:
💰 "Most of what children now see on social media was created by someone with the deliberate goal of capturing attention, garnering ‘likes’ or building a following – and it’s often their job to do this."
Assistant Professor, IIT Bhubaneshwar. Philosophical counselor at APPA.
5moCongratulations. Looking forward to reading it.