Good research needs to account for the complexity of the subject and social media’s myriad impacts, good and bad.
from the not-so-simple dept
Social media isn’t the first phenomenon to spark a moral panic about its impact on people’s (and especially young people’s) mental health, and it surely won’t be the last — but for now, it’s the star of the show.
A lot of people will gladly latch on to, and casually misrepresent, any research that might strengthen their belief in social media’s harms.
But that doesn’t mean there are no harms: it’s just that good research needs to account for the complexity of the subject and social media’s myriad impacts, good and bad.
One person doing such research is Professor Andy Przybylski from the University of Oxford, who joins us on this week’s episode for a more detailed and meaningful discussion about social media and mental health.
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