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Doomscrolling: History, Explanations & Overview

Doomscrolling is the act of spending an excessive amount of time on digital content (e.g. short-form content, user-generated content, AI-generated content, and news) that elicit negative emotions. The concept was coined around 2018, and became more widespread in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The World Health Organization (WHO) observed that the…

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Doomscrolling topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Explanations and Overview as prominent areas in the source structure around Doomscrolling.

Related topics: 52
Source areas: 4
Connected nodes: 56
Extracted relationships: 117
Concept neighborhoods: 24
Bridge connections: 56

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

History · 25 topics

Overview · 14 topics

Explanations · 9 topics

News avoidance · 4 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Suggested research paths

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Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

History

Mean world syndrome
Darkness
Evil
Surfing Surfing the net
Scrolling
Merriam-Webster
Dictionary.com
Macquarie Dictionary
Tweet Tweet (social media)
Ashik Siddique
George Floyd protests
2020 U.S. presidential election
Storming of the U.S. Capitol
Russian invasion of Ukraine
Gaza war
Middle Eastern crisis Middle Eastern crisis (2023–present)
Twitter
Climate crisis
Morning Consult
Pagination
Aza Raskin
Problematic smartphone use
Problematic social media use
Permacrisis
Cyprus University of Technology

Explanations

News avoidance

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Doomscrolling connects Entity context

The extracted context around Doomscrolling shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Doomscrolling → Anxiety, As, He, Jeffrey Hall, Kansas, Lawrence, Many, Medical Center, Medicine's Center, Negativity, Ohio State University Wexner, One, People, Perelman School, Social, Study, The, Treatment, University, You Another extracted example is Doomscrolling → Amanda Ripley, In, Journalism, Middle East, Oxford's Reuters Institute, Research, Scholars, She, Some, Study, The, UK, Ukraine, University. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Doomscrolling

Top relations

related to Negativity bias · 20

Doomscrolling → Anxiety, As, He, Jeffrey Hall, Kansas, Lawrence, Many, Medical Center, Medicine's Center, Negativity, Ohio State University Wexner, One, People, Perelman School, Social, Study, The, Treatment, University, You

related to News avoidance · 14

Doomscrolling → Amanda Ripley, In, Journalism, Middle East, Oxford's Reuters Institute, Research, Scholars, She, Some, Study, The, UK, Ukraine, University

related to Popularity · 14

Doomscrolling → Ashik Siddique, Capitol, COVID-19, During, Gaza, George Floyd, However, Its, Middle Eastern, Russian, The, This, Twitter, Ukraine

related to Origins · 12

Doomscrolling → After, August, Committee's Choice Word, Dictionary, In, Merriam-Webster, September, Studies, The, The Macquarie Dictionary, World Wide Web's, Year

related to Fear of missing out · 10

Doomscrolling → Americans, Bethany Teachman, FOMO, Italian, Mandliya, Polish, Statista, This, University, Virginia

related to Role of social media · 9

Doomscrolling → Cyprus University, Despite, Oftentimes, Researchers, Social, Technology, The, These, This

related to Brain anatomy · 8

Doomscrolling → By, IFG, In, Increased, The, This, TMS, When

related to Infinite scrolling · 7

Doomscrolling → Aza Raskin, Consequently, Infinite, Raskin, Research, The, Usability

related to External links · 6

Doomscrolling → Medium, Metro NewsArticle, The, The Star, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2, WiktionaryArticle

related to Control seeking · 3

Doomscrolling → Obsessively, Research, This

Important terminology

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Important terminology

news negative information people scrolling study content media also social research health may users mental fear user university pandemic brain

Doomscrolling relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 117 structured relationships around Doomscrolling. Examples in this analysis include Doomscrolling → is a → act of spending an excessive amount of time on digital content and the COVID-19 pandemic → instance of → The term continued to gain traction in the early 2020s through events. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

Subject	Predicate	Object	Confidence	Src
Doomscrolling	is a	act of spending an excessive amount of time on digital content	0.90	text
the COVID-19 pandemic	instance of	The term continued to gain traction in the early 2020s through events	0.80	text
the George Floyd protests	instance of	The term continued to gain traction in the early 2020s through events	0.80	text
the 2020 U.S. presidential election	instance of	The term continued to gain traction in the early 2020s through events	0.80	text
the storming of the U.S	instance of	The term continued to gain traction in the early 2020s through events	0.80	text
gamified interfaces	instance of	Doomscrolling has also been linked to platform level incentives where these digital news environments use features	0.80	text
automated or algorithmic recommendation systems to keep audiences engaged	instance of	Doomscrolling has also been linked to platform level incentives where these digital news environments use features	0.80	text
to prolong time spent on their services.The concept of infinite scrolling is sometimes attributed to Aza Raskin by the elimination of pagination of web pages	instance of	Doomscrolling has also been linked to platform level incentives where these digital news environments use features	0.80	text
in favor of continuously loading content as the user scrolls down the page	instance of	Doomscrolling has also been linked to platform level incentives where these digital news environments use features	0.80	text
endless feeds	instance of	Research also suggests that doomscrolling can be reinforced by platform features	0.80	text
algorithmic recommendations	instance of	Research also suggests that doomscrolling can be reinforced by platform features	0.80	text
which encourage habitual scanning for timely negative information	instance of	Research also suggests that doomscrolling can be reinforced by platform features	0.80	text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Doomscrolling bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Research, News and Media. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

Doomscrolling
- Research
- News
- Media
- Negative
- Also
- Fear
- Information
- Health
- May
- Social
- Missing
- Negativity
doomscrolling
- Research
- News
- Media
- Negative
- Also
- Fear
- Information
- Health
- May
- Social
- Missing
- Negativity
short-form content
- Scrolling
- Users
- Social
- Media
- News
- Keep
- Missing
- Negative
- World
- User
- Research
- Doomscrolling
user-generated content
- Scrolling
- Users
- Social
- Media
- News
- Keep
- Missing
- Negative
- World
- User
- Research
- Doomscrolling
ai-generated content
- Scrolling
- Users
- Social
- Media
- News
- Keep
- Missing
- Negative
- World
- User
- Research
- Doomscrolling
world health organization
- Mental
- Fear
- Media
- Found
- Health
- World
- Content
- Scrolling
- Social
- Also
- Research
- Avoidance
negativity bias
- Negativity
- Anxiety
- Avoidance
- Missing
- Brain
- Fear
- Research
- Also
- Beliefs
- Events
- Suggests
- World
optimistic bias
- Negativity
- Anxiety
- Missing
- Brain
- Fear
- Also
- Avoidance
- Beliefs
- Events
- Suggests
- World
- Information

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Doomscrolling, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Doomscrolling with History. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3

Doomscrolling — History · splits 31 ⟂ 26

Doomscrolling — Overview · splits 42 ⟂ 15

Doomscrolling — Explanations · splits 47 ⟂ 10

Doomscrolling — News avoidance · splits 52 ⟂ 5

Map overview Semantic statistics

Doomscrolling

Nodes57

Edges56

Triples117

Avg. degree1.96

Density0.035088

Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Doomscrolling to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Explanations & Overview, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Doomscrolling · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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Doomscrolling topic overview

What this topic covers Research coverage

Key facts & relationships

Suggested research paths

Start with these areas

History

Explanations

News avoidance

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Overview

History

Explanations

News avoidance

Advanced semantic analysis

How Doomscrolling connects Entity context

Doomscrolling

Top relations

Important terminology

Important terminology

Doomscrolling relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

Map overview Semantic statistics

Doomscrolling

Source & methodology