{"id":19225,"date":"2025-06-22T13:37:35","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T11:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/22\/have-you-heard-of-this-bdsm-trend-what-i-learned-recording-thousands-of-hours-of-teens-on-their-phones\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T13:37:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T11:37:35","slug":"have-you-heard-of-this-bdsm-trend-what-i-learned-recording-thousands-of-hours-of-teens-on-their-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/22\/have-you-heard-of-this-bdsm-trend-what-i-learned-recording-thousands-of-hours-of-teens-on-their-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Have you heard of this BDSM trend?\u2019 What I learned recording thousands of hours of teens on their phones"},"content":{"rendered":"

When documentary-maker Lauren Greenfield immersed herself in the online and offline lives of 25 teenagers, she unearthed a world of sexually explicit images, rape culture, bullying and suicidal ideation. Adolescence, she says, has become like the wild west<\/p>\n

Reactions to Lauren Greenfield\u2019s documentary series Social Studies<\/a> tend to fall into two categories. Young people think it is validating; adults think it\u2019s a horror show. After all, the screen of a teenager\u2019s smartphone is a shiny black hole to which access is rarely granted. \u201cOur kids are right there,\u201d as Greenfield puts it, \u201cand yet we don\u2019t really know what\u2019s going on in their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her five-part series, which tracks the online and offline lives of a group of teenagers and young adults \u2013 the first generation of social media natives \u2013 is being tipped for an Emmy<\/a>. Under the noses of their parents, she captures teenagers climbing out of bedroom windows to spend the night with boyfriends, posting sexually explicit images, tracking their longest-ever fast (91 hours) and living out their experiences of rape, cyberbullying, whitewashing, the tyranny of Caucasian beauty standards and suicidal ideation. She makes adolescence look like the wild west.<\/p>\n

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\nWhen documentary-maker Lauren Greenfield immersed herself in the online and offline lives of 25 teenagers, she unearthed a world of sexually explicit images, rape culture, bullying and suicidal ideation. Adolescence, she says, has become like the wild west
\nReactions to Lauren Greenfield\u2019s documentary series Social Studies tend to fall into two categories. Young people think it is validating; adults think it\u2019s a horror show. After all, the screen of a teenager\u2019s smartphone is a shiny black hole to which access is rarely granted. \u201cOur kids are right there,\u201d as Greenfield puts it, \u201cand yet we don\u2019t really know what\u2019s going on in their lives.\u201d
\nHer five-part series, which tracks the online and offline lives of a group of teenagers and young adults \u2013 the first generation of social media natives \u2013 is being tipped for an Emmy. Under the noses of their parents, she captures teenagers climbing out of bedroom windows to spend the night with boyfriends, posting sexually explicit images, tracking their longest-ever fast (91 hours) and living out their experiences of rape, cyberbullying, whitewashing, the tyranny of Caucasian beauty standards and suicidal ideation. She makes adolescence look like the wild west. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When documentary-maker Lauren Greenfield immersed herself in the online and offline lives of 25 teenagers, she unearthed a world of sexually explicit images, rape culture, bullying and suicidal ideation. Adolescence, she says, has become like the wild west Reactions to Lauren Greenfield\u2019s documentary series Social Studies tend to fall into two categories. Young people think …<\/p>\n

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