Karin Prien’s suggestions for a social media ban for children: “Above all, symbolic politics”

In order to curb the addictive potential of social media and keep dangerous online content out of children’s rooms, the commission of 18 scientists appointed by Education and Family Minister Katharina Prien has presented 56 suggestions – so-called recommendations for action. The minister herself is now calling for a social media ban for those under 13. Nina Kolleck, professor of educational and socialization theory at the University of Potsdam, is entirely with Prien and the commission in analyzing the problem. She explained why social media can be harmful for individual young people and our democracy as a whole in her book “The Fight in the Heads,” which was published at the beginning of the year“ explained. But she doesn’t believe in bans.