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SDSU study links TikTok scrolling to poor study focus
Just five minutes of scrolling the social app made college students less focused while reading long-form news, an SDSU study found.
Using eye-tracking technology, Bridget Cole, who earned a master’s degree from SDSU’s School of Journalism & Media Studies, and a team of researchers observed how college students read news content after using TikTok. Cole figured she wasn’t alone, so she approached Arthur Santana, an SDSU associate journalism professor, and asked about expanding an existing research project on how people read news to include potential impacts of TikTok. “This research supports the idea that when trying to take a break from something like studying, we need to be mindful that consuming different short-form media can make it harder to readjust to reading large pieces of text,” Cole said.
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