“TikTok isn’t a Hobby”: Social Media(ted) Connections, Identities, and Leisure Among Contemporary Canadian High School-Aged Youth
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In a cultural context where youth spend almost as much time online as they do participating in any other daily activity, debates have emerged regarding the effects of cellphone and social media use on the well-being of today’s young Internet “addicts.” This research centres the narratives of 15 Canadian high school-aged youth to explore how they utilize cellphones and social media to facilitate (1) social connection, (2) identity expression, and (3) leisure, and consider how youth think about these technologies’ capacities to foster these elements of their lives. Findings reveal that certain online connections are used to strengthen friendships, yet the “always online” quality of social media can result in experiences of “phubbing” that make offline interactions awkward. Online acts of self-expression were described as meticulously edited to protect oneself against negative peer judgement. Finally, youth’s media consumption practices suggested rest and fun are best achieved without cellphones.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".