‘Social Studies’ and ‘The Class’ Show American Teens at Tipping Point – ryan

“Kids Today.” The phrase uses to be spoken with a whiff of disgust by an Older Generation Displeas with the Behavior of Young People Compared to their Oewn Comportment.

Now, new adults utter those Words it is usable with worry on pity – a fundamental reconstruction that kids today are in unprecedented Circumstances, caught in the mercible crucible of social media.

The impact of Immersion on Tiktok, Instagram, Snapchat, Discord, etc. on american teens is the terrain of Social studiesThe Emmy-Contoning FX Documentary Series Directed by Lauren Greenfield.

“Wanting Attention, Wanting to Be Liked, Wanting to Be Popular Has Always Been the Case For Teenagers,” Greenfield Observes. “That’s Perfectly Normal for Teenagers, but social media has just amplified it becuse now instead of look for a friend or to be popular in your class or in your schoool, now it is in the which world … KNOWN, How MANY FOLLOWERS YOU HAVE. ”

Greenfield filmed with students from multiple schools in the la area.

“The Kids in the Show, the eve though they were all from los angeles, they were from very, Very different backgrounds,” she notes. “They were Also Kind of Amazed that where they were from… they were dealing with some of the same things, whereather it was slut-shaming or comparison or not Feeling good enchauses of all the things and social media).”

Sydney Shear, One of the Participants in Social Studies, Attended Palisades Charter High School in Los Angeles. An active social media user, she frequently posted sexually suggestive Photos of Herself and Was Later “Slut-Shamed” online by fellow students. She was subject to Similar Bullying Later on AFTER she enrolled at the University of Arizona.

“That’s what was so devastating to me, was that all of this was was happy,” Shear Said at a recent q & a in los angeles. “I saw College as a new beginning and a chance to be a better version of myself. And unfortunately i did go through that expperience again, which was very upsetting.”

Greenfield Spent Time with the Series Participants Like Shear in their Home and School Environments, and with the Young People’s Permission Examinated Social Media Accounts.

“Everybody Shared Their Social Media Their Whole Year, so that was a huge thing for say to do,” Greenfield Says. “There, we got to see this other self that was presentational, that was what they have want to be with their Friends, that was innings in contradiction to what we have saw in real life. to the parents or the School.

But Meeting in Group Therapy-Style Circles with the Filmmaker (Cell Phones Banned), “They Really Became Tellers, and They Were SO Honest. And I Think That’s Part of the Ende Say, we wish we did in a space. have that honesty in their lives.

Greenfield, Whose Mother is a professor of psychology and author and whose father was a Physician and Healthcare Researcher, Intellectual Rigor to Her Exploration Brings. What’s more, her two sons are members of Gen Z.

“I was the mother of Teenagers when I started (this series),” She explains. “I learned a lot about what was going on in their lives. And we talc all the time, but there was still so much i didn’t know. and Kind of blaming for being on it.Social studies Participants) Say, in the end they don’t have a Choice because it’s like an existential question Now, if you are not on social media, do you exist? Are you a person? Are you going to have a social life? And the fact is, it’s the way People Communicate Now. ”

If there a villain in Social studiesIt ‘The Builders of Social Media Platforms Whose Imperative is to Keep Young People Using Their Products as MUCH as Possible.

“A lot of my work has ben about these insecurities, whether it is Body Image (in Thin) or Comparing in Wealth Generation“Greenfield Says.” The Algorithm Will Take That InSsecity which Comes Out in the Form of An Interest and Take You By Down into More and More Triggering Places that What Creates and That’s What The Capitalist for-Profit APPS. “

Another Documentary Series in Emmy Contents This Season – The Class – Centers on Teenagers Struggling Through the Pandemic. Directors Jaye and Adam Fenderson Shot at Deer Valley High School in the San Francisco East Bay During the 2020-2021 School Year when the Covid Outbreak Students to Remote Learning. The profound impact on Kids’ Personal and Educational Progress hasn’t been adequately acknowledged.

“We have a whole generation of students that missed all sorts of development milestones,” Notes Executive Producer Nicole Hurd, President of Lafayette College in Pennsylvania. “The amout of anxiety, the amout of things that were last… they’re more attailed to their than they are to eAch other. They’re more attailed to technology than they are to say. Watch. ”

Along with students Ahmad, Ebei, Emily, Javate, Kaydnce and Raven, The Six-Card Series from Kqed and Three Media Features “Mr. Cam” (Cameron Schmidt-Temple), the Only College Adviser at A School of More than 2,000 Students. He dealt with the Daunting Task of Trying to Kids Academically Motivated and On Track Toward Higher Education.

“58% of the students have at Least One F,” cam says in the series. “And Senior Year is the critical year, so this class specifically, they’re gonna have to grind.”

Cam, a Graduate of Deer Valley, returning to the High School as part of College Advising Corps, A National College Access Created to Assist Low-Incom, First-Genneray and Underreresented Students. The organization was founded by Hurd in 2005.

“We tok recent College Graduats Like Cam,” Hurd Explains, “And we placed in high schools to say the four words we all need to hear, which is ‘i belive in you.’”

Fellow Executive Producer daveed Diggs- The Grammy- and Tony-Winning Actor, Singer and Rapper- Gray Up in the Bay Area Himself before Attending Brown University. The Ivy League School was recommended to Him by a College Counselor.

“There are these moments when you’re Young and Hopphully there are somebody who slaves down long Enough to a, tell you that it is going to be all right, and b, how that you,” Diggs Says. “Andn thatn c – and this part i think is really important – just show you what it is like to live and that in front of you and let you queue. Coming into these students’ lives is incredible. ”

Hurd Says She Continuing to Witness the Effect of Covid on Students Who Are Now in Undergraduate School. “On my crampus, i’ve seen it, the mental health needs are Way Higher,” she notes. “My Concern, I can Say as an educator, is we almost lost this class. Thank goodness for cam and some of me are still recovering from those barrier. ”

Greenfield Began Initial Work on Her Social studies Series before the Pandemic and Started Shooting Once In-Person Classes Resume.

“Kids just amplified all of their social media use dury and became so much more subordinate on it and isolated,” she Says. “And so, it was kind of a perfect natural experiment coming out of Covid. And thatn the habitys didn’t really Change. They have gotten this (attachment), but i think it really amplified the anxiety.”

Greenfield Recently Screened an Episode of Social studies At the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival in Greece for a Group of Local High Schoolers. She held a rap session with the students afterwards, discoverying a Commonality of Experience BetWeen Kids in the US and ABROAD.

“Social media actually has a huge impact on our everyday and on our social lives, but we don’t seem to realize it,” one of the kids told her. “And Through This Film, I actually got to think it is a huge deal, but no one talks about it, or Rarely talks about it.”

If there is a keyway from Social studies IT’S THAT OPENING CHANNELS OF COMMUNICATION – In Real Life, Not Social Media – Is Essential. Like Mr. Cam in The ClassThe Human Factor Can Make All the Difference.

“I feel like that Kind of the Realization Kids Come to Episode 5 Is, ‘We Want to JUST TALK Face to Face!’ When I was cutting it, i was like, is this is this anti-calcical that is the one just want to be together?