Abstract:In the United States of America, the Federal Communications Commission's repeal of the popular Open Internet Order (a.k.a 'net neutrality') has yielded pointed criticism from many different sectors, but it has yet to be examined for its potential effect on the public's health. In this commentary, we focus on the health implications of this policy change, considering expert opinion on the subject, past history, and global perspectives. We argue that the repeal of net neutrality has the potential to compromise h… Show more
“…Because young people are constant users of digital technology (Wartella et al, 2016) including the internet and mobile phones (Chassiakos et al, 2016;Kabali et al, 2015;Lissak, 2018), they open up to many innovative possibilities for health education and disease prevention involving these technologies (Bailey et al, 2015;Benjamin and Potts, 2018;Carreiro et al, 2018;Cowey and Potts, 2018;Kim et al, 2015;Lupton, 2013Lupton, , 2014. Indeed, by affecting youth's ability to readily access, understand, and use unbiased evidence-based health information, digital media contributes to raising health awareness (Sørensen et al, 2012) and literacy (Guo et al, 2018;Trezona et al, 2018), thereby reducing exposures to risk factors, and in so doing illness (Neubeck et al, 2015), and overall disease burden (Nutbeam, 2000;Early and Bustillos, 2018).…”
Along with the advantages associated with access to information and fast communication, screen time from increased digital media consumption has recently been associated with adverse effects on youth well-being. To get a clearer picture of its value for global youth based sustainability initiatives, this study investigates the effects of increased digital media consumption on youth's interests in ecosystem services, sustainability and science as a means for disease prevention. We achieve this, using data on 187821 adolescent students from 50 countries worldwide. Methodologically, we rely on a mixed bivariate ordered probit representation of youth's joint interest in the biosphere (ecosystem services and sustainability) and science as a means for disease prevention, which we then estimate using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) Methods. We found that each level increase in adolescent students' reported frequency of news blogs visits and web browsing on broad science adversely affect their interests in ecosystem services, sustainability and science as a means for disease prevention. Although each level increase in youth's frequency of ecological website visits also reduces by 20% (with 95% CI [-0.36; -0.32]) their interests in the biosphere, it is found to increase however by 3% (with 95% CI [0.02; 0.05]) their interest science as a means for disease prevention. Overall, our results highlight heterogeneous effects of digital media consumption on adolescents' well-being in terms of their interests in ecosystem services, sustainability, and science as a means for disease prevention.
“…Because young people are constant users of digital technology (Wartella et al, 2016) including the internet and mobile phones (Chassiakos et al, 2016;Kabali et al, 2015;Lissak, 2018), they open up to many innovative possibilities for health education and disease prevention involving these technologies (Bailey et al, 2015;Benjamin and Potts, 2018;Carreiro et al, 2018;Cowey and Potts, 2018;Kim et al, 2015;Lupton, 2013Lupton, , 2014. Indeed, by affecting youth's ability to readily access, understand, and use unbiased evidence-based health information, digital media contributes to raising health awareness (Sørensen et al, 2012) and literacy (Guo et al, 2018;Trezona et al, 2018), thereby reducing exposures to risk factors, and in so doing illness (Neubeck et al, 2015), and overall disease burden (Nutbeam, 2000;Early and Bustillos, 2018).…”
Along with the advantages associated with access to information and fast communication, screen time from increased digital media consumption has recently been associated with adverse effects on youth well-being. To get a clearer picture of its value for global youth based sustainability initiatives, this study investigates the effects of increased digital media consumption on youth's interests in ecosystem services, sustainability and science as a means for disease prevention. We achieve this, using data on 187821 adolescent students from 50 countries worldwide. Methodologically, we rely on a mixed bivariate ordered probit representation of youth's joint interest in the biosphere (ecosystem services and sustainability) and science as a means for disease prevention, which we then estimate using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) Methods. We found that each level increase in adolescent students' reported frequency of news blogs visits and web browsing on broad science adversely affect their interests in ecosystem services, sustainability and science as a means for disease prevention. Although each level increase in youth's frequency of ecological website visits also reduces by 20% (with 95% CI [-0.36; -0.32]) their interests in the biosphere, it is found to increase however by 3% (with 95% CI [0.02; 0.05]) their interest science as a means for disease prevention. Overall, our results highlight heterogeneous effects of digital media consumption on adolescents' well-being in terms of their interests in ecosystem services, sustainability, and science as a means for disease prevention.
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