"If teenagers are addicted to videos for a long time, their reading ability may not be effectively cultivated and trained" "Many left behind children in rural areas stay up late and brush short videos all night"... Not long ago, "children addicted to short videos" became a topic of common concern for the representatives of the National People's Congress and the National People's Congress. In the current era of "universal access", it is difficult to completely cut off children from short videos. Relevant scholars suggest that parents should scientifically guide their children to use short videos as an aid to life learning, and try to avoid their influence on deep thinking ability.
Curious hunting
Exaggerated content, no nutrition
"The family members should pay attention to me and watch me kill the sixth child. Don't run away and watch me stab you to death." Hearing the voice from the iPad, Old Cui frowned, and then caught a glimpse of the child's smile. He was even more angry: "Hurry up, don't look, the last three minutes!"
Lao Cui's children are in the fourth grade. According to the agreement between father and son, finishing their homework every day after school is their "iPad time". According to his observation, a year or two ago, children mainly played games, and had fun "eating chicken and eggs". But now, short video has become a "homework" for children. "I will brush every day and watch the same video repeatedly."
In terms of content, at first, most of the videos that children liked to watch were game introduction or animation clips, but gradually they began to "deviate" and liked short videos with boring content and exaggerated performance. Even the pictures in games and animations are often re dubbed by video producers, which are mixed with many vulgar content.
For example, although the food selected by a TV anchor is common snacks, the video uses a strange green filter, and the anchor's expression is also very exaggerated. After two bites, he will wink and vomit, causing the children to laugh. Game videos are mainly video recordings, and video producers often add a lot of exaggerated "react", yell at the enemy when they meet, and ridicule crazily when they defeat the enemy. Swearing words are the "signboard" of many anchors. After this kind of video becomes popular, some netizens will edit the "name stem" in the video again for secondary creation, forming a "high-energy video" with more single and repeated content.
Similar videos just cater to children's curiosity. "Such a big boy likes these" shit and shit "stalks best. It's a pleasure to watch them, but he has to drag me to watch them together." Old Cui said frankly that he doesn't want his children to be isolated from the Internet. Many Internet hot stalks are also social topics for children, but the video content is not nutritious and makes him feel on pins and needles.
Lao Cui also tried to use the complaint function of the platform to report the videos with foul words. But in practice, he found that the complaint procedure was very tedious and not necessarily useful. "A lot of evidence needs to be submitted, and the screenshots, videos and videos will be more popular after a month."
worry
Misguided by generalizations
More worrying for parents are some videos that convey "values".
"The paper for homework is very sharp, which is easy to scratch people; too much homework is easy to get tired, which will lead to myopia... So students, stay away from homework, and start from you and me!"
With the keyword "stay away from homework", you can find many videos that describe the conflict between teachers and students, resist learning, and resist parents in the form of live actors, animation clips, etc.
This kind of video is very popular with viewers. One "homework crazy" video performed by primary school students received more than 27000 likes and 2000 comments. Many of them said "Agree! Hurry to throw away your homework", "Cherish your life and stay away from your homework".
"This kind of talk is really in my son's heart. He talks with these videos every day." Zhang Zicheng's children have recently learned a set of "talking skills" - teachers leave homework called "oppressing students", parents assign learning tasks to "destroy the parent-child relationship", and copying new words and words is the "source of pressure" of children. Almost all of these statements come from short videos, and many short videos render the pressure of learning tasks on children.
Zhang Zicheng said frankly that lightening the burden for children is a common initiative of the society now, and parents also agree with it. But in the short video, the expression has completely changed. "It seems that homework can't be done at all", which makes parents very passive. "The purpose of shooting this short video is to attract children and generalize, but the children don't understand it and think it is reasonable."
Not only is it related to learning, but in order to attract attention, some short videos involving social phenomena and hot content tend to amplify the views. Adults are easily misled, not to mention children. Although some videos are marked with words such as "only for entertainment", it is difficult for children to understand the difference between "play" and reality.
find
Substitute companionship is addictive
In the view of Ms. Li, the parent, children are addicted to short videos, and are inseparable from the tension of family relations and lack of companionship. What impressed her was that not long ago, her 5-year-old daughter was ill, and she accompanied her in the hospital for infusion. Next door came a primary school grade one child, who spent two or three hours during the infusion and had been brushing short videos. "The eyes can't stand it, except to disturb others with external voice!"
Even the surrounding parents are worried, but the father of the child is indifferent. "When his parents communicate, as long as there is a slight difference, his father will speak coldly, which makes outsiders feel very uncomfortable. How can a child not want to escape from such an environment?"
Last July, Sun Hongyan, a researcher of China Youth Research Center, completed the Research Report on the Use and Learning of Short Video for Minors, which showed that 82.9% of minors used short video too much. "Rural areas, middle school students, minors with heavy learning burden and poor parent-child relationship have a higher proportion of using short videos."
It is worth noting that the report focuses on the parent-child relationship and the use of short videos. It is found that the proportion of minors who have a bad relationship with their parents and who are not very good with their parents is 22% and 25% higher than that of minors who have a good relationship with their parents; Minors with more family company often use short videos and the proportion of using short videos for a long time is relatively low.
"Short videos, including games, have become the children's' electronic parents'." Mr. Yue, the parent, said that he often saw parents and elderly people with children on the subway, and handed their mobile phones to their children for a clean journey. "Once a child squatted on the seam of the carriage to watch the video, and didn't return it to his grandmother when he got off the bus. The old lady really grabbed it back." Mr. Yue admitted that he was self-control. Even so, he had a long experience of "brushing" unconsciously. "Short videos are so eye-catching that it's strange that children are not addicted."
proposal
Cultivate skillfully with network habits
Focusing on the rectification of the poor content orientation of short video information, the Capital Internet Association held a network review meeting on February 28. Government management departments, industry experts, Internet platforms and members of the mother review panel gathered in many ways. On the premise of clarifying that the platform should strengthen supervision, it is proposed that all parties concerned should strive to achieve "technology governance", "co governance" and "autonomy" to form a joint force of governance.
"Sooner or later, children will have their own mobile phones, and parents can't keep their children under their noses forever." Mr. Yue believes that short videos are just one of the various temptations that children may get, and the key is how to guide them. "There are many excellent video accounts with exquisite production and knowledge content, and I will not blindly avoid them." Recently, he is explaining the phonetic symbols for his daughter. In order to inspire children's interests, he first introduced short videos, and then mastered them in writing. "In the final analysis, we hope that children can feel that this is a 'tool' that should be used for their own use, rather than being enslaved by it."
In the Research Report on the Use and Learning of Short Video for Minors, Sun Hongyan suggested that we should not "turn pale when talking about the Internet", but give minors opportunities to practice and participate, and cultivate their resilience and ability to survive in the digital world. This obviously puts forward higher requirements for parents. In fact, as the report shows, the importance of parent-child relationship is also reflected in a series of "Internet access" behaviors, such as playing games and reading online novels, in addition to short videos. In a harmonious parent-child relationship, parents and children jointly discuss and formulate rules for "surfing" the Internet, which is likely to help children develop healthy habits of using the Internet in the digital age.
Ma Xiangwu, a cultural critic and former professor of the Chinese Department of Renmin University of China, believes that parents and teachers should learn more about and respect children's appreciation needs and interests. On this basis, those who have the ability and level may wish to help children select high-quality products. "On the issue of short videos and even mobile phones, don't take so-called enforcement measures. Some schools collect children's mobile phones and smash them on the spot. Everyone knows that it is wrong to do so. Teenagers are slightly biased, especially the biased interests and aspirations, which are not so terrible." Illustrated by our reporter Wei Jing, Wu Nanwen and Song Xi
