📢 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."
Martin Baker
5mo
Thanks for sharing. What do you say to those that downplay the effects social media use on children and adolescent mental health? Richard Graham
Anne Collier
4mo
“The content [children] see in their feeds is increasingly professionalised and commercialised” - also increasingly *synthetic*, with more and more AI-generated content in their and everybody’s feeds
The content they see in their feeds is just too graphic and in many cases comprises their mental health.
ManyMangoes 🥭
4mo
Love this insightful analysis. To amplify understanding and adapt strategies, consider leveraging predictive analytics for content trends alongside applying A/B/C/D/E/F/G testing to diversify engagement tactics.
Marieke de Vogel
Maureen Banda
5mo
Thank you Richard Graham for beating the drum on this really important issue and keeping it at the top of our minds!
Clinical Director; Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist
5mohttps://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0021/283044/childrens-media-lives-2024-summary-report.pdf