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Ipad Kids?

A meta analysis of the effects of social media and smart technology on children

Jacob Pate

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Why this subject matter?

  • 2000’s babies
  • iPhone
    • Allowed for absent parents
  • Siblings

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Thesis

What are the implications of the increasingly early implementation of smart technology, paramount of which being the iPhone, on children in the twenty-first century and what is their outlook?

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Context

  • Gen Z children are noticeably different from an empirical standpoint
  • Less time to establish an ontological foundation?
  • Social media
    • “Image”
    • Social Score

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Focused categories and their perceived effects

  • Social Implications
  • Sedentary Behavior
  • Mature Content

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Methodology

  • Meta Analysis
    • How was it used specifically?
    • Changes to thesis

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Strictly social implications

  • Rich get richer
    • Polarization
  • Algorithms to find those of a like mind
  • Similar past data

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Sedentary Behavior

Lots of longitudinal data

  • ++, - - when it comes to the nature of the media
  • Portability changes things
  • iPad Parenting
    • Formative
  • Physicality
  • Blue Light Damage
  • Object Permanence

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Emotional Damage

  • Premature exposure to mature content
  • Distribution of “likes”’
  • Pornography
    • Implications

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Limiting Factors/ Concessions

  • Straying from social media
    • Highschool
  • Research Method
  • Extent of conclusions

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Conclusion

  • Changed Irreversibly
  • Positive
    • Relationships
    • Leg-Up’s
  • Negative
    • Possible physical and mental damage

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Gottschalk, Francesca. Impacts of Technology Use on Children: Exploring ... - OECD. 2019, https://www.oecd.org/officialdocuments/publicdisplaydocumentpdf/?cote=EDU/WKP%282019%293&docLanguage=En.

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