Government research in Britain said that the short video application “Tik Tok” has become the main source of news for teenagers in the country.
The research, prepared by Ofcom, the regulator for communications in Britain, stated that 28% of adolescents between 12-15 years old use “Tik Tok” to find out the news, a number that has not been achieved by any other platform, according to what was reported by the British “Sky News” network. , Thursday.
YouTube and Instagram came in second with 25%.
The research looked at news consumption in Britain between 2022 and 2023.
The demand for news on TikTok comes as the Internet is increasingly taking over the share of traditional media as a source of news for the public in general.
The reason is Corona
Principal researcher at the Reuters Institute for Journalism, Nick Newman, says that while TikTok is seen as a platform for light topics rather than serious topics such as news, events such as the Corona pandemic have changed this view.
He added that Corona was a big change because people were in their homes, as they were talking about the pandemic on TikTok.
global trend
And the turnout of teenagers in Britain to “Tik Tok” to find out the news is no exception, but rather part of a growing trend among young people around the world.
A research published last June that included 93,000 young people in 46 countries around the world found that an increasing proportion of young people access news through TikTok.
And 44% in the category between 18-24 years said that they use “Tik Tok”, and these allocate 20% of the use of the platform to know the news.
The rate of using news among individuals in this category a year ago was 15%.
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2023-07-20 11:14:01
