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Human Growth and Development / Unit 8   HGD 1091 short lesson, about 20 seconds

Digital and Social Media

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The idea

Digital media is any electronically distributed content; social media, per the APA, is interactive platforms for creating and sharing in virtual communities.

In practice

Entertainment screen use by tweens and teens rising to about five and a half hours a day by twenty twenty-one.

Where people slip

Only a third of parents in one study estimated their child's screen time accurately.

Your place on the trail

Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.

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