The Child Culture Guide for Out-of-Touch Adults: What is #DeathTok?
The Child Culture Guide for Out-of-Touch Adults: What is #DeathTok?
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This week's Out-of-Touch guide is an overview of the different ways technology is affecting youth culture. At one end of the spectrum, constant connectivity to devices leads to ridiculous tendencies like eating dog food and plastic candy wrappers. On the other hand, children use technology to help each other deal with heavy things like death and illness in a way that would have been impossible for previous generations. So it's a real mixed bag.
This week's Out-of-Touch guide is an overview of the different ways technology is affecting youth culture. At one end of the spectrum, constant connectivity to devices leads to ridiculous tendencies like eating dog food and plastic candy wrappers. On the other hand, children use technology to help each other deal with heavy things like death and illness in a way that would have been impossible for previous generations. So it's a real mixed bag.