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jeffw@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Is TikTok breaking young voters’ brains?

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Is TikTok breaking young voters’ brains?

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jeffw@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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TikTok has made itself into a hub for Gen Z political expression. But as Zoomers change politics, how is the app changing them?
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    These articles and studies may be of interest to you

    https://sites.brown.edu/publichealthjournal/2021/12/13/tiktok/

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8010681/

    https://www.psychreg.org/double-tap-dopamine-science-social-media-likes-impact-minds/

    https://www.purewow.com/wellness/tiktok-brain-explained

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      You have linked a term paper, one study, and two articles. The study is a meta analysis that refuses to comment on the detrimental effects of TikTok usage due to a lack of research in the field in general. One article is about social media use in general and does not directly link to any scholarly works. The other does directly target TikTok and links to a study on Chinese students. There, TikTok Use Disorder was positively correlated with memory loss, anxiety, stress, and depression. Unfortunately my understanding of statistical analysis is not strong enough to judge the quality of the study, but to my limited knowledge it seems robust for its purposes. That being said, positive correlation does not necessarily prove causation. Notably, this study was a one time questionnaire. Meaning there isn’t any mechanism to determine the effects of high TikTok usage over time.

      All this is to say that the field is deeply understudied, and that there aren’t any reliable conclusions that can be drawn yet. It may be that there are adverse effects, but that has yet to be proven.

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