Burns challenges – A social media dictated phenomena in the younger generation

Background and aim: ‘Burns challenges’ leading to battle scars are a current youth culture phenomenon propagated by social media. Platforms such as YouTube, Twitter and Facebook have been noted to show adolescents perform these challenges resulting in an increasing incidence of flame, friction or ch...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Verena Chu, Ardit Begaj, Lopa Patel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-04-01
Series:Burns Open
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468912217300585