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Social Media and Your Brain

Explore how social media influences your brain, behaviour and well-being through scientific insight and practical strategies.

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Course curriculum

1. Welcome to Social Media and Your Brain
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1. What is an Algorithm?
2. Algorithms in Social Media
3. Positive Impact of Social Media Algorithms
4. Targeted Content
5. Echo Chambers
6. Filter Bubbles
7. Navigating Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles
8. Recap Quiz
1. Tribalism
2. How Social Media Taps into our Need for Tribalism
3. Teenagers and Community
4. Dopamine
5. Social Media and Dopamine
6. Animal Testing
7. Direct Impacts on our Brain
8. Bullying
9. Recap Quiz
1. What is Fake News?
2. Types of Fake News
3. How Fake News Spreads
4. Impact of Fake News
5. Fighting Fake News
6. Recap Quiz
1. Understanding Radicalism and Extremism
2. Social Media as a Platform for Radicalism, Extremism and Free Speech
3. Accessibility and Reach of Radical and Extreme Content
4. Self-Radicalisation
5. How Radicalism and Extremism Spread
6. Recap Quiz
1. What Happens to your Brain When you Stop Using Social Media?
2. Mindful Consumption
3. Counteracting Performative Behaviour
4. Mindfulness and Meditation
5. Mindfulness Apps
6. Recap Quiz
1. Ready for the Final Quiz?
2. Final Assessment
3. Survey

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45 lessons
0.5 hours of video content

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