Tiktok y salud mental: análisis de la recepción mediática en los constructos identitarios de los jóvenes de Quito-Ecuador

Abstract

The academic article through an analysis of reception through the social network TikTok, questions the messages and harmful content posted by the accounts lueh_7 and jersiongiov, these accounts have thousands of followers on the platform for this reason they were selected for the research, in turn, the article seeks to know in depth through a corpus of 55 videos posted during the month of December 2023, if the messages and content in visual, auditory and textual format negatively influences the mental health of young Ecuadorian adults and if these in turn participate in the construction of their identity. Regarding the emotional well-being of young Ecuadorians, the article seeks to know if the narratives will affect their mood when viewing the content posted by both accounts and if the audiovisual part promotes the construction of identity among the young Ecuadorian participants of the focus group. It could be evidenced that the content posted by the two accounts during the month of December 2023 did affect the emotionality of young Ecuadorians by the general feeling of sadness that users feel when watching this type of videos, the young participants of the focus group mentioned that the visual narratives of the videos analyzed do affect the construction of their identity through the color black by affinity in their clothing, the type of music they listen to, the messages they share and the virtual communities to which they belong