Category: Youth and Media Entertainment Communication
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Is Seeing Still Believing? Exploring the Impact of AR Filters on Adolescents’ Trust
Weiqi Tian Sep 2024 Have you ever imagined turning back the clock to your teenage years with just a click? Recent advancements in social media augmented reality (AR) filters, like TikTok’s ‘Teenager Look,’ are making this almost possible. These AI-powered filters can alter users’ appearances in hyper-realistic ways. But in a world where manipulated content…
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Understanding feelings after sexting and sexual exposure
Michaela Lebedíková Jun 2024 During the past four years, I have focused on examining the different ways in which exposure to sexually explicit materials (i.e., pictures, photos, or videos depicting nudity or sex) and sexting (i.e., sending such materials) relate to adolescents’ well-being. An area that especially caught my attention were the subsequent feelings after…
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Is life brighter when your phone is not?
Cynthia Dekker Sep 2023 We take our smartphones everywhere and use them constantly. While the device brings us joy and offers many convenient functionalities, being permanently online also has its downsides. For instance, people complain that they are using their phone too much, that it stresses them out, or that it distracts them from everyday…
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Smart speakers as new family members
Rebecca Wald Dec 2022 The popularity of smart speakers Almost everyone has by now heard of Virtual Assistants like Siri, Alexa, or Google Assistant that can be installed on smart speaker devices in people’s homes (or, for instance, phones). The most famous smart speaker devices that are currently used are the Google Home devices, the…
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Into the Dark: Exploring the narrative space of the Dutch Telegramsphere
Mónika Simon Jul 2022 Telegram, the app that some of your friends obnoxiously insist on moving your group chats to – so that you can escape the privacy-evading grip of the “evil “Meta machine – is not exactly an innocent alternative to WhatsApp. While Telegram offers private group chats just like WhatsApp, it also has…
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Fifteen Seconds of TikTok Fame
Fabio Votta Jul 2022 TikTok has rapidly developed from a punchline for jokes about “kids these days” into a social media juggernaut. The speed of this development is unprecedented, even in the rapidly-changing world of social media. The TikTok app was released in the United States in August of 2018. In 2020 it was already…
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The Attention Game
Teun Siebers The game is simple: Two parties compete for attention and the winner grows stronger. This is repeated over and over again, and it is almost impossible to stop. Given these basic rules, would you accept to play if you knew that the other party consists of the richest and most technically skilled people…
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Why Jasmine Should Not Go Speechless
Marthe Möller Walt Disney Pictures’ live-action remake of Aladdin (2019) that was recently released has received mixed reviews. While the movie was praised for the emancipation of the main female character (princess Jasmine), it was also met with criticism because of its Orientalism and stereotypical portrayal of Arabs. A quick look at the negative reviews…
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The Serious Side of Entertainment
Marthe Möller The film industry is one of the biggest industries in our society. It is a booming business with one mission: to entertain. To some people, the fact that our need for fun is big enough to sustain a whole industry is troublesome. We like to think of humans as creatures who can be…
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Three tips for successfully sampling adolescents at schools
Zeph M. C. van Berlo Adolescents are a fascinating group to study, because (as Britney once loosely put it) they are not children, [though] not yet adults (Spears, 2001). Finding adolescents to participate in a study however can be difficult, expensive, and time consuming. Contacting schools seems like a convenient solution. Even though this can…
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