How Youth Are Reinventing Instagram and Why Having Multiple Accounts Is Trending

According to a recent Pew Research Center study, Instagram is the second most popular platform among 13 to 17-year-olds in the US, after YouTube. Nearly 72 percent of US teenagers are on the image sharing platform. Our Youth & Media team looked at how teens are using Instagram to figure out who they are. While seemingly just a photo-sharing platform, users have molded Instagram into a more complex social media environment, with dynamics and a shared internal language almost as complex as a typical middle or high school. This episode was produced by Tanvi Kanchinadam, Skyler Sallick, Quinn Robinson, Jessi Whitby, Sonia Kim, Alexa Hasse, Sandra Cortesi, and Andres Lombana-Bermudez. More information about this work, including a transcript, can be found here:

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How Youth Are Reinventing Instagram and Why Having Multiple Accounts Is Trending is an episode from Radio Berkman by Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

This episode is 00:13:01 long.

This episode was published on Nov 2, 2018.

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