One of the tools featured below is an open source short video creator for social platforms that seem to be highly favouring this type of content. You probably don't need any reminders that regularly taking in short videos is damaging to you, but here's one that was published recently:
Feeds, Feelings, and Focus: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Examining the Cognitive and Mental Health Correlates of Short-Form Video Use. Ironically, the title of the paper itself is longer than most video content nowadays.
From the paper's abstract where "SFV" refers to "short-form video" (not a direct quote because I had to remove the numbers interspersed in the abstract):
"This systematic review and meta-analytic investigation comprised data from 98,299 participants across 71 studies. Increased SFV use was associated with poorer cognition, with attention and inhibitory control yielding the strongest associations. Similarly, increased SFV use was associated with poorer mental health, with stress and anxiety showing the strongest associations. These findings were consistent across youth and adult samples and across different SFV platforms."
Nothing surprising here, but maybe this will encourage you to seek out longer-form video content that has some substance. I'm certainly guilty of doing too much SRV myself!
Now on to this week's hand-picked productivity links!
