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Childhood Brainrot: Digital Content Consumption, Attention, and Algorithmic Culture in Childhood

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  Childhood Brainrot:  Digital Content Consumption, Attention, and  Algorithmic Culture in Childhood A critical analysis of childhood brainrot: attention, digital overstimulation, algorithmic culture, generational gaps, and the educational response to digital consumption. Naming the Phenomenon in Order to Think It In recent years, the term brainrot has emerged from the margins of youth digital culture to describe—often with irony and exaggeration—a subjective sense of mental saturation produced by intensive consumption of short, repetitive, and highly stimulating digital content. Although the concept originated in informal online language, its rapid circulation among adolescents and young adults signals more than a passing meme: it points to a shared experience of cognitive fatigue, attentional fragmentation, and constant mental noise. When this phenomenon is applied to childhood, the discussion acquires a deeper social, educational, and ethical dimension. Speaking of ch...

Brainrot infantil: consumo de contenido digital, atención y cultura algorítmica en la infancia

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 Brainrot infantil: consumo de contenido digital, atención y cultura algorítmica en la infancia Análisis crítico del brainrot infantil: atención, sobreestimulación, cultura digital, brecha generacional y el papel educativo frente al consumo digital. Nombrar el fenómeno para poder pensarlo En los últimos años, el término brainrot ha emergido desde los márgenes de la cultura digital juvenil para describir, con ironía y crudeza, una sensación de saturación mental producida por el consumo intensivo de contenidos breves, repetitivos y altamente estimulantes en plataformas digitales. Aunque el concepto nace en el lenguaje informal de internet, su rápida adopción por adolescentes y jóvenes adultos ha comenzado a señalar algo más profundo que una simple moda lingüística: una experiencia compartida de agotamiento cognitivo, fragmentación atencional y ruido mental constante. Cuando este fenómeno se traslada al ámbito de la infancia, el debate adquiere una dimensión social, educativa y étic...

Analogies in Admission Exams: The Hidden Language of Verbal Reasoning

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  Analogies in Admission Exams: The Hidden Language of Verbal Reasoning A deep academic analysis of analogies in admission exams as cognitive, cultural, and social devices of educational assessment. Introduction: when an apparently simple exercise determines life trajectories Analogies occupy a central place in many admission exams for higher and upper-secondary education. Presented as verbal reasoning exercises designed to assess general cognitive abilities, they are often perceived as technical, neutral test items devoid of ideological content. However, this perception is profoundly misleading. Analogies constitute far more than a linguistic challenge: they are institutionalized cognitive artifacts that condense historical assumptions about intelligence, merit, language, and educational legitimacy. From a critical perspective, analogies function as a hidden language within academic selection systems. Hidden not because they are intrinsically inaccessible, but because they r...