yeah. when you look on tiktok and you think about the type of content you tend to see there, do you have any guesses on, when you open your app, what might pop up? for me it s probably anime s going to pop up. anime? mm hm. normally the first thing to - come up is an advert on mine. advert? yeah, it s an advert. oh, yeah, adverts. it s always an advert. 0k. so what do the students find when they all check their phones, at the same time, in the same place? it s boxing. someone boxing. painting. anything else? it s a sponsored funko pop. right. ..that someone s promoting. all these tiktok users are the same age, go to the same school, live in the same city, but they re getting very different targeted content. and how does that make you feel, that they re making a lot of money, essentially, from your information? your private information. i ve never actually - bothered about that, nah. no, i ve never really thought into it. their reactions don t really surprise me, but what s actually goi
there was either an ad or, like, a promotion for something. is it really sort of obvious to you? yeah. is itjust normal to you, or does it annoy you? what are the feelings there? it feels normal. yeah. yeah, it s just normal. you just sort of get used to it. - so, do you all have your phones on you? yeah. i want to do an experiment to see if they realise how social media companies are using their personal data to target content at them. do all of you have the tiktok app? yeah. when you look on tiktok and you think about the type of content you tend to see there, do you have any guesses on, when you open your app, what might pop up? for me it s probably anime s going to pop up. anime? mm hm. normally the first thing to - come up is an advert on mine. advert? yeah, it s an advert. oh, yeah, adverts. it s always an advert. 0k. so what do the students find when they all check their phones, at the same time, in the same place? it s boxing. someone boxing. painting. anything else?
anime? normally the first thing to come up is an advert on mine s. advert? yeah, always an advert. oh, yeah, adverts. 0k. so what do the students find when they all check their phones, at the same time, in the same place? it s boxing, someone boxing. painting. anything else? it s a sponsored funko pop. that someone s promoting. all these tiktok users are the same age, go to the same school, live in the same city, but they re getting very different, targeted content. and how does that make you feel, that they re making a lot of money, essentially, from your information? your private information. i ve never actually i bothered about that. no, i ve never really thought into it. their reactions don t really surprise me. but what s actually going on when they open their phones? what they see in their own feed is determined by lines of code, called algorithms. the algorithms literally learn from what we like and what we scroll through, what we watch and how long we watch it. tiktok wasn t
it s boxing, someone boxing. painting. anything else? it s a sponsored funko pop. that someone s promoting. all these tiktok users are the same age, go to the same school, live in the same city, but they re getting very different, targeted content. and how does that make you feel, that they re making a lot of money, essentially, from your information? your private information. i ve never actually i bothered about that. no, i ve never really thought into it. their reactions don t really surprise me. but what s actually going on when they open their phones? what they see in their own feed is determined by lines of code, called algorithms. the algorithms literally learn from what we like and what we scroll through, what we watch and how long we watch it. tiktok wasn t a thing when i was 13, but today, it s one of the most popular apps amongst teenagers. i want to know what today s teens see when they when theyjoin up.
so what do the students find when they all check their phones, at the same time, in the same place? it s boxing, someone boxing. painting. anything else? it s a sponsored funko pop. that someone s promoting. all these tiktok users are the same age, go to the same school, live in the same city, but they re getting very different, targeted content. and how does that make you feel, that they re making a lot of money, essentially, from your information? your private information. i ve never actually i bothered about that. no, i ve never really thought into it. their reactions don t really surprise me. but what s actually going on when they open their phones? what they see in their own feed is determined by lines of code, called algorithms. the algorithms literally learn from what we like and what we scroll through, what we watch and how long we watch it. tiktok wasn t a thing when i was 13, but today, it s one of the most popular apps amongst teenagers. i want to know what today s teens see