The Happiness Effect
How Social Media is Driving a Generation to Appear Perfect at Any Cost
- Format: Innbundet
- Antall sider: 368
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- EAN: 9780190239855
- Utgivelsesår: 2017
- Bidragsyter: Freitas, Donna (Research Associate, Research Associate, Center for the Study of Religion and Society, University of Notre Dame); Smith, Christian (William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology and Dire
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Sexting. Cyberbullying. Narcissism. People-and especially the media-are consumed by fears about the effect of social media on young people. We hear constantly about the dangers that lurk online, and about young people''s seemingly pathological desire to share anything and everything about themselves with the entire world. Donna Freitas has traveled the country, talking to college students about what''s really happening on social media. What she finds is that, while wefocus on the problems that make headlines, we are ignoring the seemingly mundane, but much more widespread, problems that occur every day. Young people, she shows, feel enormous pressure to look happy all the time-and not just basically content, but blissful, ecstatic, inspiring and successful in their personal, professional, and academic lives-regardless of how they actually feel. Of course, these young adults are not that happy, at least not all of the time, and the constant exposure to the seemingly perfect lives of oth