TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - High viewership of videos about teenage suicide on YouTube
JO  - Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
A1  - Dagar, Anjali
A1  - Falcone, Tatiana
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - <p> The ubiquity of social media in a teenager’s daily life is no secret as 97% of teens use at least one major online platform and 45% stay online ‘almost constantly’. The largest source of video-based digital content, YouTube (www.youtube.com), is the most commonly used social media platform by teenagers. While we are still trying to understand the benefits and risks of extensive media use, some research has suggested that YouTube may promote the normalization of non-suicidal self-injury among youth and it may facilitate the rapid spread of harmful trends like the ‘tide pod challenge’ among teenagers ...</p>  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0890-8567
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2019.10.012
ID  - ref1
ER  -