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Social Studies
Overview
Filmed in Los Angeles over a school year, a diverse group of LA teens open up their lives and phones to offer an intimate glimpse into how social media has reshaped childhood.
Key Crew
Producer: Frank Evers, Lauren Greenfield
Seasons
Season 1 (2024)
A diverse group of LA teens offer an intimate glimpse into how social media has reshaped childhood. From battling bullying, grappling with beauty standards, coping with comparison pressures and racism, exploring sexuality, and making life-altering decisions, viewers go on a raw, visceral and urgent journey through the challenges of growing up in the digital era.
5 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Social 101
2024-09-27L.A. teens return to school post-COVID and share their phones and lives to explore the effects of social media.
Runtime: 57 minEpisode 2: Social Divisions
2024-09-27Seeking followers, fame, and social mobility, teens encounter racial and class divisions on social media and IRL.
Runtime: 57 minEpisode 3: Peer/Algorithm Pressure
2024-10-04Peer pressure compounds with algorithm pressure to lead teens down rabbit holes that affect their real lives.
Runtime: 57 minEpisode 4: Sex Ed
2024-10-11Social media and pornography provide "sex education" that shapes teens' behavior with serious consequences.
Runtime: 57 minEpisode 5: Deletions and Culminations
2024-10-18With graduation and life changes, the teens contemplate their future and the brave new world they navigate.
Runtime: 67 minVideos
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