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      Understanding Instagram’s Deep Dive into Teen Mental Health

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      35th International BCS Human-Computer Interaction Conference (HCI2022)
      Towards a Human-Centred Digital Society
      July 11th to 13th, 2022
      HCI, Design, Instagram, Social Media, Teenagers, Adolescents, Wellbeing, Mental Health
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            Abstract

            This paper considers the ‘Teen Mental Health Deep Dive’ slide set created by staff at Instagram in 2019 to present results from internal research and later released publicly along with annotations. The slide set was initially highlighted by the Wall Street Journal in an article focusing on claims within the slide set that use of Instagram was a having a negative impact on teen mental health, especially that social comparison, afforded by features central to the Instagram app, was negatively affecting the mental health of young people. Our goal within this paper was to summarise the content of the slide set from an academic perspective and consider whether the content of the slides provide any insights which are valuable to the HCI community. While the results and conclusions presented within the slides have clear limitations, they did help us identify a set of issues and areas for further investigation.

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            Conference
            July 2022
            July 2022
            : 1-10
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            [0001]Child-Computer Interaction Research Group, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK.
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            10.14236/ewic/HCI2022.26
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            © Fitton et al. Published by BCS Learning & Development. Proceedings of the 35th British HCI and Doctoral Consortium 2022, UK

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            35th International BCS Human-Computer Interaction Conference
            HCI2022
            35
            Keele, Staffordshire
            July 11th to 13th, 2022
            Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
            Towards a Human-Centred Digital Society
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            1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

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            Electronic Workshops in Computing

            Applied computer science,Computer science,Security & Cryptology,Graphics & Multimedia design,General computer science,Human-computer-interaction
            Design,Wellbeing,HCI,Instagram,Social Media,Teenagers,Adolescents,Mental Health

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