The first generation to truly grow up online, Generation Z and their cohort live in a social media ecosystem that blends facts and feelings. It’s significantly shifting how they understand what’s true.
Beside my laptop screen lies the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report.
Same subject, different universe.
The measured language of climate science stands in stark contrast to the raw emotions evoked by that TikTok.
Both contain some truth, but also fundamentally different frequencies of human understanding.
Gen Z, the first generation to spend their earliest years in the smartphone era, has developed a fundamentally different relationship with truth.
Expressionless, blank reactions among young people in various social situations became a point of contentious debate on TikTok.
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The older ones and the younger ones may be voting in different ways.
Young people are constantly editing themselves online, trimming anything that might come off as embarrassing. It's shaping…
Speaking at a Dartmouth symposium on mental health, NYU professor Jonathan Haidt discussed his research on “the Great Rewiring.”
