Social Media is Addictive and Influences Behavior: Should it Be Regulated as a Digital Therapeutic?

Recently, we were deeply saddened by the findings of the coroner investigating the death of 14-year-old Molly Russell. Deeply saddened and angry but not surprised. This case should be seen as a sentinel event, given that this is the first time social media was directly implicated as a cause of death...

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Autores principales: Perakslis, Eric, Quintana, Yuri
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: JMIR Publications 2023
Materias:
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9912146/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36701180
http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/43174
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Sumario:Recently, we were deeply saddened by the findings of the coroner investigating the death of 14-year-old Molly Russell. Deeply saddened and angry but not surprised. This case should be seen as a sentinel event, given that this is the first time social media was directly implicated as a cause of death. We should use this opportunity to advance proposals for the regulations of the health effects of social media.

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