{"id":686,"date":"2008-10-15T17:43:52","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T23:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/?p=686"},"modified":"2008-10-19T22:32:39","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T04:32:39","slug":"you-tube-the-non-gateway-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2008\/10\/15\/you-tube-the-non-gateway-drug\/","title":{"rendered":"You Tube: The [Non-] Gateway Drug?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Office of National Drug Control Policy recently released results of a joint study with Nielson on exposure of teens (age 13-18) to online videos with drug and alcohol-related content (see the summary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov\/publications\/pdf\/teenviewing_darvideos_online.pdf\">here<\/a>). Among the findings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Of 18mm &#8216;unique viewers&#8217;, teens watched an average of 35 videos in one month. Of these, about 1 video per person contained drug or alcohol-related content<\/li>\n<li>About 5% of online teens viewed a video with drug or alcohol-related content<\/li>\n<li>Females were slightly more likely to watch videos with drug or alcohol-related context (57% to 43%)<\/li>\n<li>More than 2\/3 of viewers of drug and alcohol-related context were under age 16<\/li>\n<li>78% of drug-related videos included positive comments on drug use, 40% of videos showed explicit drug use.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What are we to make of this? Well, one ought not be too concerned if only 5% of teens viewed videos that some may deem dangerous or objectionable. And, we don&#8217;t know that watchers end up being users. On the other hand, it looks as if a small percentage of teens are watching a lot of stoner videos. And, there&#8217;s one more rub: the methodology section gives no information on whether or not kids knew they were being monitored (I suspect they did). After all that, should we be concerned about a nefarious You Tube-drug use link? <em>I dunno<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Office of National Drug Control Policy recently released results of a joint study with Nielson on exposure of teens (age 13-18) to online videos with drug and alcohol-related content (see the summary here). Among the findings: Of 18mm &#8216;unique viewers&#8217;, teens watched an average of 35 videos in one month. Of these, about 1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":694,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions\/694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}