About this episode

The episode explores young people's views on social media and the harmful content they encounter online.

This week we’re looking young people’s perceptions of social media. What are their views about the potentially harmful content that they’re seeing online? What would they like to be done about it? And what are some of the challenges facing researchers who want to look at how algorithms push different types of content?

Topics covered

• young people
• social media
• harmful content
• perceptions
• algorithms
• research challenges

Keywords

• social media
• young people
• harmful content
• algorithms
• research
• perceptions

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: UCL Political Science

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