{"id":5665,"date":"2025-04-27T21:32:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T13:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/?p=5665"},"modified":"2025-05-12T16:00:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T08:00:30","slug":"trapped-in-the-algorithm-how-social-medias-inherit-design-hijacks-our-cognitive-architecture-damaging-the-perception-of-life-and-causing-a-decrease-in-adolescent-mental-well-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/onsc\/5665\/trapped-in-the-algorithm-how-social-medias-inherit-design-hijacks-our-cognitive-architecture-damaging-the-perception-of-life-and-causing-a-decrease-in-adolescent-mental-well-being\/","title":{"rendered":"Trapped In The Algorithm: How Social Media\u2019s Inherit Design Hijacks Our Cognitive Architecture, Damaging The Perception Of Life and Causing A Decrease In Adolescent Mental Well-being."},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\nAbstract \n\n\n\n In a world where everything is becoming digitalised, social media established itself as &nbsp;major part of our daily routines. While offering limitless connections and access to information, its rapid growth and algorithm-driven nature are showing signs of having significant psychological risks. In this paper we look at how social media directly contributes to cognitive overload, distorts reality by pushing idealistic content, and intensifies mental health issues such as anxiety, <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/onsc\/5665\/trapped-in-the-algorithm-how-social-medias-inherit-design-hijacks-our-cognitive-architecture-damaging-the-perception-of-life-and-causing-a-decrease-in-adolescent-mental-well-being\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract In a world where everything is becoming digitalised, social media established itself as &nbsp;major part of our daily routines. While offering limitless connections and access to information, its rapid growth and algorithm-driven nature are showing signs of having significant psychological risks. In this paper we look at how social media directly contributes to cognitive overload, distorts reality by pushing idealistic content, and intensifies mental health issues such as anxiety, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":582,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1769,1768,1648,1767,1504,1770,1310,1766],"class_list":["post-5665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-onsc","tag-cognitive-overload","tag-concerns","tag-digital-space","tag-negative-effects","tag-social-comparison","tag-social-comparison-theory","tag-social-media","tag-social-media-consumption"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/582"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5665"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6322,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665\/revisions\/6322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}