KJR Forchheim comments on the “Mediennutzung unter Jugendlichen”

TikTok, Fake News and Democracy

Laut een DAK-Gesundheitsstudie war die Social-Media-Nutzung unter Jugendlichen 2023 dreimal so hoch wie im Vor-Corona-Jahr 2019. Von einem riskant hohen Konsum seien demnach 1.3 Millionen junior Menschen in Deutschland affected. The popularity of TikTok is enormous among Generation Z and Millennials – since Statistics in the year 2023 from 14 to 19 years in Germany with a Nutzeranteil of knapp 56 Prozent the largest Nutzer group there. Danach follows with beef 30 Prozent die 20- to 29-Jährigen.

The Landesmedienanstalt NRW warns against the removal of TikTok entries. An investigation has begun on the platform that is used regularly. Inhalten, wie gewaltverherrlichenden Videos, gesundheitsgefährdenden Challenges or der gar extremistischem Gedankengut. The TikTok Disinformation is not consistently recognized, matured different scientific experiments, which the BR reports.

Who functions the platform of the Chinese company ByteDance and was the power so attractive? Do you want to use social media information in this way and can you do something else? What roles do disinformation and entrapment theories play on the platform? Are you sure that fake news has occurred and that a lot of information has come across and that messages have come in? Would there be a political and social situation, a democratically driven mechanism that is not bound? All excerpts were included in the Veranstaltung „Media use among young people: TikTok, Fake News and Democracy“.

Rental information

The Veranstaltung will take place on Friday, November 8, 2024 from 3:00 PM to 9:00 PM in the Kreisjugendring Forchheim and is aimed at young people in the Alter von 16 to 27 years. The costs are from 10 € incl. Care. The Veranstaltung is for the Verlengerung der Juleica-geeignet. This is the democratic budget of the Bavarian State Ministries for the Family, Labor and Social during the Bavarian Youth Ring.

The online registration provides more information at www.kjr-forchheim.de. Anmeldeschluss ist Sonntag, November 3, 2024.