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Society and culture
TikTok, the popular social networking platform, has gained millions of users around the world thanks to its short and engaging videos. However, despite its success, it has also attracted significant criticism for its influence on young people and the dangers associated with suicide.
Social media is shaping modern democracies and affecting public health, especially among youth. In a video podcast, three European journalists explore its wide-ranging impact, echoing concerns from experts about addiction, mental health issues, and the rise of extreme political influencers.
The tradwife movement has resurfaced on social media, advocating a return to traditional marriage and conservative gender roles. Combining nostalgia with a critique of the care gap and labor market pressures, this trend is gaining traction on platforms like TikTok, sparking debate in the age of modern feminism
The exorbitant prices of Taylor Swift concerts are yet another example of how the culture industry has become a never-ending cycle of profiteering. Live Nation Entertainment, the industry giant, is encouraging price-gouging tactics and facing accusations of monopoly.
Birth rates are falling almost everywhere in the world. In the medium and long term, experts predict that it will also fall in less affluent countries. This is a problem, but also the result of social emancipation movements. What can be done when even the current policy of incentives does not seem to be up to the challenge?
The skincare trend so prevalent on social media has caught on with under-12s who create their own content by reviewing cosmetics on TikTok
Immersed in the culture of immediacy, digital natives have had to adapt their neurological patterns and consumption habits to the maelstrom of information they deal with on a daily basis
On the model of social organisation where children and adolescents are denied a voice and identity of their own
Narcotics are also susceptible to becoming a trend. This is the case of popper, the narcotic vapour whose traditional use in the sexual sphere now finds its place in the atmosphere of any party.