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Squad
by Belfug Sener
Non-Professional Winner
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Description
Squad is an application designed for tweens to engage with their first smartphone, downloaded by parents limited to a three month provisional period which could help iGen be more conscious about the negative effects and risks of social media. Squad aims to enhance creativity and thinking skills towards social issues by collaboration with peers to change the expectations of iGen from the social media channels that they will engage with after this period. As a result, children would become better communicators with more thoughtful, conscious, and empathic approach by being active social thinkers using social media as a meaningful channel. These days kids tend to get their first smart phone at the age of ten, to sign up (illegally) for their first social media accounts by 11, and to measure their worth through online interactions. But while many researchers were focusing on the phenomenon of social media addiction among adults, few were focusing on how it was affecting the iGeneration-...