Half of popular TikTok videos about Baby Boomers portray older adults negatively, risking reinforcing stereotypes and creating intergenerational conflict

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IMAGE: 1 IN 2 VIDEOS ABOUT OLDER ADULTS ON TIKTOK PORTRAY THEM NEGATIVELY. view more 

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Half of popular TikTok videos about Baby Boomers portray older adults negatively, risking reinforcing stereotypes and creating intergenerational conflict

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0285987

Article Title: Videos about older adults on TikTok

Author Countries: Singapore

Funding: We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Social Science Research Council SSHR Fellowship (MOE2018-SSHR-004). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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JOURNAL

PLoS ONE

DOI

10.1371/journal.pone.0285987 

ARTICLE TITLE

Videos about older adults on TikTok

ARTICLE PUBLICATION DATE

2-Aug-2023