Świat postpandemiczny młodzieży jest kalejdoskopem wielu zmian. Wyłaniający się z licznych badań obraz problemów i wyzwań, z którymi się mierzyli w okresie pandemii młodzi ludzie, wymaga niewątpliwie badań pogłębionych, a nawet niezwykle wymagających i rzadko prowadzonych w socjologii tak zwanych badań podłużnych. Jednak punktem wyjścia do dalszych analiz w tego rodzaju diagnozie jest wstępny przegląd badań dostępnych na świecie i dotyczących problemów, z którymi mierzyli się młodzi ludzie w czasie pandemii COVID-19, szczególnie w pierwszej i drugiej jej fali. Po dokonaniu przeglądu i analizy najważniejszych, najciekawszych i przeprowadzonych na dużej populacji wyników badań empirycznych w Polsce i na świecie wybrano zatem spośród nich symptomatyczne dla diagnozy problemów i wyzwań, które należy zmapować, aby móc dalej je obserwować i badać. Artykuł ma charakter eksploracyjny i problemowy, nakreślający problematykę zjawisk, które w czasie pandemii w wyraźny sposób ujawniły się w populacji młodzieży. Cel dokonanego przeglądu badań to ich analiza porównawcza, a następnie wskazanie najważniejszych zjawisk i zagadnień, które warto badać w populacji młodzieży w czasie czwartej fali pandemii oraz po jej zakończeniu, w czasach pandemicznych.

Adolescents online during the COVID-19 pandemic. Diagnosis, problems, challenges

The post-pandemic world of adolescents is a kaleidoscope of many changes. The research area of problems and challenges faced by adolescents during the pandemic, emerging from numerous studies, undoubtedly requires in-depth research, even extremely demanding and rarely conducted in sociology so-called longitudinal studies. The starting point for further research in this kind of diagnosis, however, is a preliminary review of the research available worldwide on the problems faced by youth during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in its first and second waves. After researching and analysing the most important, interesting and conducted on a large population of empirical research findings in Poland and around the world, those that are symptomatic for the diagnosis of problems and challenges were selected to be mapped for further observation and study. The article is exploratory in nature, outlining the problem phenomena that clearly emerged in the youth population during the pandemic period. The purpose of the article is to review the studies, their comparative analysis, and then to identify the most important phenomena and issues worthy of investigation in the adolescent population during and after the fourth wave of the pandemic, during the pandemic era.

Keywords: social media, internet, brain, COVID-19 pandemic, information, adolescents, youth, addiction, internet, PTSD, abuse, isolation.

The post-pandemic world of adolescents is a kaleidoscope of many changes. The research area of problems and challenges faced by adolescents during the pandemic, emerging from numerous studies, undoubtedly requires in-depth research, even extremely demanding and rarely conducted in sociology so-called longitudinal studies. The starting point for further research in this kind of diagnosis, however, is a preliminary review of the research available worldwide on the problems faced by youth during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in its first and second waves. After researching and analysing the most important, interesting and conducted on a large population of empirical research findings in Poland and around the world, those that are symptomatic for the diagnosis of problems and challenges were selected to be mapped for further observation and study. The article is exploratory in nature, outlining the problem phenomena that clearly emerged in the youth population during the pandemic period. The purpose of the article is to review the studies, their comparative analysis, and then to identify the most important phenomena and issues worthy of investigation in the adolescent population during and after the fourth wave of the pandemic, during the pandemic era.