FLYNN, D.J. y LASTRA ANADÓN, C., 2025. Desinformación entre adolescentes en España: desafíos y oportunidades de mejora en la escuela y online. Papeles de economía española, no. 184, pp. 178-188. ISSN 0210-9107.
Disinformation, particularly in the form of fake news, and its proliferation through social networks, has established itself as one of the urgent challenges facing contemporary societies. Young people can be especially vulnerable because they often lack the skills and motivation to identify and question low-quality information and are highly exposed to social networks. Despite these challenges, no country currently has a sound strategy and practice to address the challenge of adolescent misinformation that is based on high- quality scientific evidence. In this article, we outline the type of educational interventions that we consider necessary and feasible, both in the school and online environments. We argue the need for the development of realistic and scalable interventions within the school system and their rigorous evaluation in order to inform practice. To this end, we present data on the context of misinformation in this group and the results of a pilot survey, which highlights the critical relationship between digital literacy skills training and student motivation to acquire them.
GARCÍA MUÑOZ, P., 2025. Precariedad vital: la expresión de malestares en la juventud. OBETS: Revista de Ciencias Sociales, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 219-248. ISSN 1989-1385.
In the face of states and feelings such as stress, tiredness, lack of interest in activities, hopelessness or lack of expectations the prevailing biomedical paradigm has framed anxious-depressive disorder as the main explanation for these forms of discomforts. Likewise, as mental health discourse has gained visibility, young people have also identified this disorder as the central framework for understanding and labelling some of their discomforts. This research examines these experiences of distress from a social science perspective, advocating for a multidimensional approach to mental health that moves beyond clinical explanations and individualised treatments. The aim is to examine how young people perceive their own distress. To achieve it, data from the Barometer Youth, Health, and Well-being conducted by the FAD Youth Foundation of Queen Sofía Centre was analysed. This approach provided a multidimensional explanation, highlighting variables with the greatest influence on youth mental discomforts. The findings underscore limited prospects, uncertainty and relational and socioeconomic perceptions as key factors of discomforts among young people.
LOGATT GRABNER, C. y PARRA BOLAÑOS, N., 2025. Adicción a las redes sociales, marketing digital y diseño algorítmico: Un análisis multidimensional de un fenómeno global con implicancias en la salud mental. Lexenlace: Revista Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Educación Comercial y Derecho, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 132-139. ISSN 3091-1605.
Social media has increasingly become an instrument that extends beyond simple communication. It now constitutes the medium through which digitally native generations express their emotions, emotional states, and sentiments. Evidence further suggests that these generations are beginning to develop different modes of connection and interaction, whereby physical and face-to-face contact is relegated to a secondary plane, giving way to solely virtual-based relationships. The goal of this review study was to generate a data matrix examining advances and developments over the past five years regarding how social media may affect mental health and how digital marketing has evolved into an integral component of social media platforms. The findings of this research demonstrate that excessive use of social media, coupled with limited regulation, is proving detrimental to the mental health of younger generations and adolescents, impairing their ability to communicate within real-world contexts and producing distorted images of social and human reality, as well as of intimacy and privacy. This study concludes that it is essential to provide purposeful support networks within primary social contexts and to ensure the availability of psychological support tools that can sustain and humanise the increasing virtualisation of social relationships in the twenty-first century.
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