Contrary to the Blue Whale Game, Momo accounts use snowball effects to gain reach. Journalists have therefore criticized the large amount of YouTube videos in which YouTubers have promoted the challenge by passing on the phone numbers to their viewers (theweek.co.uk2018). Momo even became an...
They were a source for seeking information and advice, evidenced by the questions people asked them such as requesting more information on how to get a BPD diagnosis, how to tell if someone has BPD, its symptoms, causes, how to cope and how to help others that have or may have BPD. V...
youth’s online activities and critiques of schooling should be seen as a way of understanding how to help students with their education (Wright,Citation2021). A few have done so previously, Wright, for example describes how young people use acronyms on TikTok ...
My take:First, the good: The title is “7-Minute Workout,” and there are breaks every 30 seconds. A stoic, faceless man in a royal blue muscle tee (the secret to success?) shows you the moves. As for the questionable: Research behind the routine suggests the workout should be repea...
People with severe mental illness such as schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder or bipolar disorder use a popular social media website like YouTube to provide and receive naturally occurring peer support, Dartmouth researchers report in the journal PLO
Third, we use methods from network community analysis to understand what media diet and content preferences specific audiences expose themselves to. Our findings suggest that more than two thirds of the videos include at least some form of harmful depiction and that the danger level is a predictor...