All the research I have been doing was not as important as I thought it was...
BUT on the bright side- Dio and I talked to our class and we now know how to approach our project idea! Having a group meeting with our class made us realize that we have to narrow down to a specific idea for our documentary and to do some research. We need to start ASAP so we do not fall behind.
Some of the specific topics that was mentioned in the group meetings were:
- Does instagram allow you to express yourself?
- Mental health around generation Z
- Tiktok makes you addicted
- Talk About ego- trying to prove themselves through social media
- Designs of social media
I love all of the ideas that our class mates gave us. I am really interested in how Tok Tok makes users addicted and the designs of social media and it seems that these two are related to each other and have a negative effect on teenagers. So I decided to do some research to see if this is true.
In case you have been without a phone for the past couple of months, Tik Tok is video-sharing social networking service used to create short lip-sync, comedy, and talent videos. It has over 500 million active users.
I found an article on The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/10/style/what-is-tik-tok.html that explains certain aspects of the social media app that makes it unavoidable for its millions of users.
- ".. when you open the app: the first thing you see isn’t a feed of your friends, but a page called “For You.” It’s an algorithmic feed based on videos you’ve interacted with, or even just watched. It never runs out of material. It is not, unless you train it to be, full of people you know, or things you’ve explicitly told it you want to see. It’s full of things that you seem to have demonstrated you want to watch, no matter what you actually say you want to watch"
- "TikTok starts making assumptions the second you’ve opened the app, before you’ve really given it anything to work with."
For our documentary episode, I feel like the perfect app to focus on is Tik Tok due to its design and addictive features - it fits perfectly in our overall idea of the topic.
Time to get a move on!
In case you have been without a phone for the past couple of months, Tik Tok is video-sharing social networking service used to create short lip-sync, comedy, and talent videos. It has over 500 million active users.
I found an article on The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/10/style/what-is-tik-tok.html that explains certain aspects of the social media app that makes it unavoidable for its millions of users.
- ".. when you open the app: the first thing you see isn’t a feed of your friends, but a page called “For You.” It’s an algorithmic feed based on videos you’ve interacted with, or even just watched. It never runs out of material. It is not, unless you train it to be, full of people you know, or things you’ve explicitly told it you want to see. It’s full of things that you seem to have demonstrated you want to watch, no matter what you actually say you want to watch"
- "TikTok starts making assumptions the second you’ve opened the app, before you’ve really given it anything to work with."
For our documentary episode, I feel like the perfect app to focus on is Tik Tok due to its design and addictive features - it fits perfectly in our overall idea of the topic.
Time to get a move on!
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