Hi Jorgia, Thank you for your kind words and for sharing your insightful thoughts. I appreciate your engagement with my…
How Short Form Content is Creating Negative Impact within Online Communities and Their Members
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7 responses to “How Short Form Content is Creating Negative Impact within Online Communities and Their Members”
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Interesting read. I enjoyed your discussion around the effects of “doom scrolling” or “bed rotting” and the rise in recent years. While there has been a rise in recent years, do you think the issue has been growing slowly since social media started being used by the majority and has “exploded” with the start of short form content?
You raise some good points about people, particularly students, suffering from procrastination because of the excessive use of short form content. What are your thoughts on how this could be counteracted, particularly with students? Do you think universities could counteract this by changing the way they present their content to short form?
Your discussion around children and short form content raised some questions for me. Who is responsible for children consuming this type of content? Many social media platforms have age restriction so are they responsible or are parents responsible?
If you wouldn’t mind could you take a look at my paper? https://networkconference.netstudies.org/2024/onsc/3578/how-yes-and-no-supporters-used-social-media-to-influence-the-indigenous-voice-to-parliament-vote/
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Thank you for reading, I believe that short form content is probably one of the biggest contributing factors of why we have seen such a huge rise in these types of behaviors. I completely agree that this was a continual thing with growth of social platforms, and was to be expected after the events of Covid19 and short form content rising to popularity. But with the case of students, short form can be a useful tool but it is still school work I don’t believe that we would see a change of engagement with studies if this factor changed. Students themselves have to try to take control of this type of addiction, but more awareness would amazing and potentially more ideas surrounding how to enjoy this type of content more healthily might need to be raised in schooling or counseling offices. I believe that it is up to parents and surrounding adults to more so teach children in how to healthily consume the internet, not necessarily hovering but children need to be informed in the same way we teach stranger danger and such. Unfortunately age restriction does not work very well which is not necessarily the platforms fault as it seems to be more of an honor system rather than a definite thing. It is more up to the choices of parents.
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Hi Willow
It’s funny that you mention parents teaching children about stranger danger. It always amazes me that parents will teach their children about offline stranger danger but not the dangers of online where they could be talking to anyone. I wonder if this is because many parents themselves aren’t educated on the dangers of the internet.
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Hi El,
It is crazy about online stranger danger, but I feel like these types of conversations are slowly being brough to more light as a legitimate thing. As in one of my siblings schools they now teach classes to the children about online safety. Completely different than when I was a Kid.
-Willow
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Hi Willow,
I really enjoyed your paper! Reading it felt like a bit of a call out specifically with the doom scrolling aspect, I really resonated with that and I’m not so sure that’s a positive thing 😆. I liked your inclusion of attention span deterioration. That’s something I found I was personally struggling with when I became enamoured with Tik Tok a few years back, especially during the pandemic. As Tik Tok started to introduce longer-form videos to the algorithm, a feeling of impatience was always brimming under the surface and the need to scroll to the next thing became tantamount. Was this also something you personally experienced and if so, did you manage to overcome the habit of doom scrolling and a dwindled attention span?
If you have some time, I’d appreciate it if you could check out my paper: https://networkconference.netstudies.org/2024/ioa/3623/tik-tok-and-the-eurocentric-beauty-standard-it-adores-an-analysis-of-eurocentrism-and-its-role-in-the-concept-of-beauty/
– Jorgia
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Hi Jorgia,
Honestly I felt the exact same when I was writing it. It made me realize that maybe I shouldn’t spend 6 hours on TikTok haha. I still really struggle with my attention span now and am definitely a doom scroller. I have started setting timers on my apps, in an effort to stop this habit and enjoy other things. I feel as if I don’t actually enjoy watching short form content but it feels more like an automatic response if that makes sense. Do you feel the same?
-Willow-
Hi Willow thanks for you response! Yeah I definitely do agree with you there it’s a strange feeling to say the least. I’ve have gotten better with managing my time with short form content, as soon as I feel that impatience I try to jump off the app and find something more stimulating and productive but it’s still a bit of a struggle sometimes!!
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